JD PAHLOW

November 12, 2018

LAMAR- Military honors will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Daniel Funeral Home for John Digby “JD” Pahlow, who died Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018. A time of fellowship and remembrance will follow until 3 p.m.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include two sons, Brad McCully and wife Leslie, Booneville and Tim Pahlow and wife Ashlee, Joplin; four sisters, Marty Beezley and husband Pat and Marilyn Peterson and husband Dick, all of Pittsburg, Kan., Margee Pahlow, Tulsa, Okla. and Trisha Stephenson and husband Tom, Augusta, Ga.; six grandchildren, Trenton, Megan, Jaden, Kyle, Jack and Adi; many loved nieces and nephews and two former wives, Linda Pahlow and Marsha Steele-Hardin.

He was preceded in death by a son, Michael Moran Pahlow; one daughter, Lisa Ann Pahlow Kranker and one granddaughter, Ashden Elizabeth Kranker.

JD was born Nov. 7, 1943, in Carthage, to John Digby Pahlow Sr. and Irene Elizabeth (Mallory) Pahlow. He was reared in Lamar and was a 1961 graduate of Lamar High School. After graduation he attended Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, where he played football and was an Interstate Conference All-Star. He graduated from Wentworth in 1963 and then went on to attend Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg.

He enlisted in the United States Navy on March 23, 1964, where he was awarded Outstanding Individual Recruit. He served as a dental technician and field medic in the First Dental Company attached to the United States Marine Corps while in Vietnam. While serving in Vietnam, from February 1967 to February 1968, he was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal and the Vietnam Service Medal. He was honorably discharged on February 9, 1968.

JD worked for Reeve Dental Company in Oklahoma City, Okla., from 1968 to 1972, when he joined the family business of Pahlow and Pahlow Abstract and Title Firm as a third generation partner. After his father’s death in 1978, JD took the reigns of the business, while also being appointed the Lamar branch manager of Farm and Home Savings in Nevada, Mo.

JD was a member of the First Assembly of God Church in Lamar and a former member of the Lamar United Methodist Church, where he served two years as the administrative board chairman. He was the past president of the Lamar Rotary Club, Lamar Community Betterment for two years, Barton County United Way for one year, Barton County Senior Citizen Center for two years and Lamar Country Club for two years. He also served on the steering committee for the new Lamar High School and was on the Barton County Health Board for eight years. He was the committee chairman for the Law Wing Memorial Fund, which was added to the old Barton County Memorial Hospital. He served on the board of directors of Barton County Mutual Insurance Company and was chairman of Christmas lighting for 14 years. JD was most proud of serving the citizens of Barton County as the public administrator for 10 years. He was a Shriner, an avid pilot and enjoyed fishing, duck hunting and golfing.

“When it’s all said and done, the most important things in life are to love the Lord and your family” - JD Pahlow.