DOROTHY LOUISE KENIMER

NEVADA, Mo.- Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 1, at the Baptist Church in Jerico Springs for Dorothy Louise (Wallace) (Mitchell) Kenimer, 102, who died Thursday, May 23, 2024. Pastor Robert Thomas will officiate. Interment will follow in St. James Cemetery in Milford.

Arrangements are under the direction of Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada, Mo.

Memorials are suggested in her memory to Wounded Warriors Project, in care of the funeral home.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com.

Survivors include her sons, Larry and wife Dorothy and Brad and wife Jonna; her sisters, Betty and Glenda; her many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Gaylord, Richard and Kenneth; one sister, Glora Faye and a daughter, Pam. Mrs. Kenimer was born Nov. 15, 1921, on a farm outside Milford, the first of seven children to Rial and Marjorie Wallace.

She attended high school in Jerico Springs and graduated as Valedictorian in 1940. She worked in Nevada, Mo. until 1941 when she married Billie Mitchell and moved back to Jerico Springs. They had their first child, Larry, in 1942. In 1944, while her husband was serving in the Army during WWII, she worked at Pratt & Whitney in Kansas City, making airplane parts for the military. Daughter Pamela was born in Jerico Springs in 1947. Later that year the family moved back to Kansas City and in 1949 Bradley was born.

After the couple’s divorce, she moved back to Nevada, Mo., where she worked at Montgomery Ward for several years before taking at job at the Nevada State Hospital as a psychiatric aide. She worked at the State Hospital for 10 years and in 1967 married Charles (Chuck) Kenimer. The couple lived in Nevada, Mo. until 1970 when he went to work for Burns and McDonnell Engineering. His job as a mechanical engineer took them all around the country for the next 27 years. When he retired in 1997, they moved to El Dorado Springs. After his death in 2006, she remained in their home until 2023.