Richard Alvin Groves Jr.

Basehor – Services for Richard Alvin Groves Jr., 49, Basehor, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Holy Angels Catholic Church in Basehor. Burial will be in Holy Angels Cemetery in Basehor.Mr. Groves died Thursday, June 21, 2007, at Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kan.He was born Oct. 21, 1957, in Lincoln, Neb., the son of Richard Sr. and Marcia Fletcher Groves.Mr. Groves was an equipment operator for J.C. Penney Co. Inc. in Lenexa.He married Christina Wilson Ogden-Groves on March 17, 2001, in Tonganoxie. She survives, of the home.Other survivors include two sons, Steven, Austin, Texas, and Brandon Ogden, of the home; three daughters, Lisa Ballard and Leslie Groves, both of Austin, Texas, and Chelsea Ogden, of the home; a brother, Christopher, Rapid City, S.D.; a sister, Missy Lockhart, Chattanooga, Tenn.; and two grandsons.The family will receive friends at 9 a.m. Monday before the services.The family suggests memorials to the American Heart Association, sent in care of Quisenberry Funeral Home, P.O. Box 993, Tonganoxie 66086.Online condolences may be sent at www.quisenberryfh.com.