Theresa Frances Reinkemeyer
Olathe ? Memorial services for Theresa Frances Reinkemeyer, 78, Olathe, will be at 3 p.m. today at Aberdeen Village in Olathe. A funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Christ the King Church in Tulsa, Okla. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery in Tulsa.
Mrs. Reinkemeyer died Friday, Dec. 31, 2004, at her home.
She was born Sept. 20, 1926, in Springfield, Ill., the daughter of Lawrence and Alice Chandler. She graduated from Monte Casino High School in Tulsa. She attended Fontbonne College and Oklahoma State University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree. She lived in Arkansas City for 30 years and in Aurora, Colo., for 20 years. She moved to Olathe in 2002.
Mrs. Reinkemeyer worked at Warren Petroleum in Tulsa. She held several offices in P.E.O., Altar Society, Shenandoah Green Thumbers Garden Club, Junior Service League and Mother’s Club. She was active in Christ the King Parish in Tulsa, Sacred Heart Parish in Arkansas City and Queen of Peace Parish in Aurora.
She married Leo Robert Reinkemeyer in 1949. He survives, of the home.
Other survivors include two daughters, Ann Stites, Lawrence, and Nancy Diebel, Overland Park; three sons, David, Houston, Jim, Tulsa, and Phil, Dallas; 15 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends after 4 p.m. Wednesday at Fitzgerald Funeral Home in Tulsa, where a rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The family suggests memorials to a local chapter of the Alzheimer’s Assn. or to Catholic Charities Hospice Services of Kansas City, sent in care of D.W. Newcomer’s Sons Johnson County Chapel, 11200 Metcalf, Overland Park 66210.