Allen L. Powell

Graveside services for Allen L. Powell, 45, Fairway, will be conducted by Plymouth Congregational Church at 6 p.m. Friday in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mr. Powell died Sunday, Aug. 17, 2003, at Overland Park Medical Center after an extended illness.

He was born Aug. 11, 1958, in South Sioux City, Neb. He was a former resident of Lawrence and Kansas City, Mo.

Mr. Powell was chief fiscal officer of Kansas City’s reStart Inc., which serves the homeless in downtown areas. He was a member of Metropolitan Community Church in Kansas City, Mo., where he occasionally served as a substitute organist. He had been organist at United Methodist Church in Belton, Mo., for two years. He was an active supporter of Douglas County AIDS Project, Kansas City’s SafeHouse, The Good Samaritan Project and other charities in the Kansas City area.

Survivors include many friends and acquaintances.

A life celebration will be at 7 p.m. Aug. 29 at Metropolitan Community Church.

Memorials are suggested to Douglas County AIDS Project or Kansas City’s Good Samaritan Project.