Opal Maxine Kain

Please join us is celebrating her life from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 21 at Mt. Moriah, Newcomer & Freeman Funeral Home, 10507 Holmes Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64131. A funeral service will be at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 22, at the funeral home.

Opal was born July 21, 1927 in Santa Rosa, Missouri, in DeKalb County, to Walter and Almina Woody. The wife of the late Leroy “Lee” Kain, the pair were married from April 28, 1949 to his passing in 2009. She is survived by her two children, Dennis Kain and Judy Gangwere; her two granddaughters, Stephanie Woodard and Rachel Gangwere; her three great-grandsons, Hunter, Mason, and Evan Woodard; her cousin Betty Dye; her niece Roberta Dice; her nephew Franklin Woody-Cox; and many friends.

She graduated from Lathrop High School in 1945 and then moved to Kansas City to help with the war effort, working for Pratt and Whitney. After the war she worked for Sears before meeting her husband and becoming a homemaker. She survived the Ruskin Heights tornado of 1957 and saved countless neighbors by offering up her basement as shelter. She was well known for her passion for Kansas City sports and her devotion to her family. She was a longtime member of Ruskin Heights Presbyterian Church and an active volunteer in local politics.