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Monuments erected in his honor include the Spirit of Freedom fountain at Brush Creek Boulevard and Cleveland Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri and the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center at Blue Parkway and Cleveland Avenue and Bruce R. Watkins Drive (), a major thoroughfare in Kansas City completed October 22, 2001.
University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Kansas Charles Bertan Wheeler Jr. (August 10, 1926 – October 25, 2022) [ 1 ] was an American physician and politician who served as a Missouri state senator and as mayor of Kansas City , Missouri from 1971 to 1979, in addition to having held other elected offices.
On March 20, 2009, Blackhand Strawman, a documentary of Kansas City's organized crime history, was released in theaters in Kansas City. On March 1, 2011, retired FBI agent William Ouseley published his history of the KC crime family from 1950 to 2000 in a book titled Mobsters in Our Midst .
Jay H. Neff (1854–1915), mayor of Kansas City, Missouri and newspaperman [27] J. C. Nichols (1880–1950), real estate developer [ 28 ] Buck O'Neill (1911-2006), first baseman and manager in the Negro American League, first African American coach in Major League Baseball, played a major role in establishing the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum ...
[1] [16] He and Charlotte lived at 1007 Westover Road in Kansas City from 1912 until his death in 1938. He is buried in a crypt in Forest Hills Abbey, in the Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery in Kansas City. [17] He is the great-great-grandfather of actress Ellie Kemper and writer Carrie Kemper.
Carl Angelo "Tuffy" DeLuna (April 30, 1927 – July 21, 2008) was an organized crime figure who was once the powerful underboss of the Kansas City crime family (the family). He was also brother-in-law to Kansas City crime boss Anthony Civella.
He was re-signed by Kansas City before the 2012 season and played in the team's first 11 games before his death. Belcher died on December 1, 2012, in a murder-suicide , killing his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins, before driving to the Chiefs' training facility and shooting himself in the head with a handgun.
Norma Lynn Hunt (née Knobel, March 28, 1938 – June 4, 2023) was an American football executive who was a minority owner of the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL) from 2006 to 2023. [2] [3] Hunt was married to Lamar Hunt who founded the Chiefs. At the time of her death, she was the only woman in the Never Miss a Super ...