George H. Hagan

Funeral services for George H. Hagan, 72, Eudora, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church of Olathe. Burial will follow at the De Soto cemetery. Mr. Hagan died Saturday, March 3, 2007, at the Good Samaritan Center in Olathe. He was born Sept. 24, 1934. He attended Lenexa Grade School and graduated from Olathe High School.He served as a corporal in U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War. Mr. Hagan was the owner of Hagan Construction Co. for more than 40 years before his retirement. He served as past president of the Lenexa Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Lenexa City Council and formerly was on the planning commissions for both Lenexa and De Soto. He was a 32nd degree Mason, a former Shriner, and a life member of the De Soto Veterans of Foreign Wars post. He was instrumental in the starting of the Lenexa Parks and Recreation Department.He married Carol Curtis. She survives, of the home.Other survivors include three sons, Wesley and wife Alicia, Gladstone, Mo., Bradley, Kansas City, Kan., and Ramsey and wife Toni, Eudora; a daughter, Kristy Lowe and husband Todd, Olathe; two sisters: Asta VanKeirsbilck and husband Tom and Becky Anderson and husband Parris, Bonner Springs; a brother, David and wife Karen, Marshall, Mo.; six grandchildren; and a host of other family and friends. He was preceded in death by his mother, Ona Schmidt Millington; his father, Soren Schmidt; and seven siblings, Ejlif Schmidt, Gudmund Schmidt, Simon Schmidt, Asta Rhoades, Stephen Schmidt, Robert Schmidt and Sandra Mitchell. The family will meet friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Amos Family Chapel of Shawnee and at the De Soto VFW following the burial Wednesday.Online condolences may be sent at www.amosfamily.com.