Obituaries

Donna Adreme Kupper, 90, of Overland Park, Kansas, passed away peacefully on May 17.  Funeral services were held graveside on May 28 at Rose Hill Cemetery.

Emily Helene Perlstein, 44, of Overland Park, Kansas, passed away in her hometown on May 25.

Gadi Kinda, an Israeli soccer player who spent four seasons with Sporting Kansas City between 2020 and 2023, died on May 20 at age 31. 

World-renowned psycholinguist and developer of the Comprehension Method of second language acquisition, Harris Winitz, 92, of Kansas City, Missouri, passed away peacefully on May 14. 

Selma Kaufman Litwin passed away on May 8 at the age of 95.

Much loved husband, son, dad, Papa and original Chiefs fan since 1963, Dennis Eugene Wacknov passed away on May 11 from heart failure. He was 78 years old.

Thomas “Tom” Scott Morgan passed away peacefully in his sleep at age 67 on April 29, at his home in Palm Beach County, Florida.

Dr. Harriet H. Barrish, also known to many as Momma B, of Overland Park, Kansas, passed away peacefully surrounded by her children on April 23. 

Lorraine Hersh, 93, of Overland Park, Kansas, peacefully passed away on April 24.

Dr. Kurt Metzl passed away on April 17 in Denver, Colorado, after a brave three-year battle with neuroendocrine cancer, weeks shy of his 90th birthday.