Phillip Hare

Phillip DeVerne Hare, 76, Overland Park, Kansas died Saturday, December 15, 2001 at his
home. Funeral services will be 10:00 AM, Tuesday, December 18 at Memorial Chapel of
Olathe, (143rd & Blackbob Rd). Burial in Highland Park Cemetery, Kansas City, KS. Visitation
will be from 6-8 PM Monday at the funeral home. The family suggest memorial contributions to
Heritage United Methodist Church or to Carondelet Hospice.

Mr. Hare was born November 22, 1925 in Centerville, KS, the son of Russell O. and Nina Esther
(Hill) Hare. Mr. Hare attended Kansas State University and then enlisted in the United States
Navy where he was a Radioman RM2C. Mr. Hare worked for Union Pacific Railroad and was
the Terminal Superintendent in Kansas City, KS. He was transferred to Omaha, NE where he
was a special representative to the general manager of Union Pacific. Mr. Hare retired in 1981
and then moved to their place at the Lake of the Ozarks where they lived 15 years before moving
back to Overland Park, KS. He was a member of the Masonic Parker Lodge #341 AF & AM, the
Scottish Rite, Abdullah Shrine Temple, Union Pacific Club #4 and also a member of Heritage
United Methodist Church. He was an avid golfer and loved to fish.
Preceding him in death was an infant son, Brian Verne Hare.
He married Martha Jean (Hill) Hare on June 24, 1949 in Kansas City, KS. She survives of the
home.
Other survivors are his children; Marti Dee Powell and her husband Allen of Kansas City, MO,
Vicki Lynn Kippley and husband Dave of Olathe, KS, Randall DeVerne Hare and his wife
Pamela of Wichita, KS, his sister, Joye McCreery and her husband John of Ridge Manor, FL,
brother, Larry Hare and his wife Susan of Collegeville, PA, and eight grandchildren.
(Arrangements: Memorial Chapel of Olathe (913) 768-6777)