Irvin "Ike" Frazee

Irvin “Ike” Frazee, 85, passed away August 21, 2015. A visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00pm, Tuesday, August 25th at Chapel Hill – Butler Funeral Home, 701 North 94th Street, Kansas City, Kansas 66112. The funeral services will be 11:00 am, Wednesday, August 26th at the funeral home. Interment with Honors will follow in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Kansas City Hospice.

Ike was born to Harvey and Della Frazee in Olathe, Kansas on August 10, 1930. He worked as a dishwasher and soda jerk and then joined the Army at 16, serving in Japan during World War II for 2 years. When he got out, he worked construction and met his future wife, Dolores Dudley, at a football game and they married on October 1, 1950. Ike later joined the Marine Corps Reserves and was called to Active Duty during the Korean War, serving stateside in California. They lived in California for a short time and he worked in an Aircraft factory. They came back to Kansas in 1952 when his daughter, Debbie, was born and he worked for a short time for Hoover Brothers' School supplies, General Motors and Rock Island Railroad. Ike’s son, Mark, was born in 1956. He started at the Kansas City, Kansas Fire Department in May of 1956 and stayed until he retired as a Captain in 1985. Ike always had another part-time job during his time at the fire department; driving a school bus, working roofing and house painting, flipping houses, he even opened his own RV business, “Frazee Tow Low”. They built their own earth contact home in 1982 and they enjoyed many years until it was seized for the Nascar development in 1998. Ike was a long time member of the Masonic Lodge.

He is survived by his beloved wife of sixty-four years, Dolores Frazee; his children, Debbie Clark and Mark Frazee; his granddaughters, Michelle Kaufman and her husband Dirk, Sara Nyaforh and her husband Francis, and Mary Clark and her boyfriend, Jason Maxwell; his grandson, Aaron Clark and his girlfriend, Tiffani Baldner; his great-grandchildren, Ellie Binkley, Marin and Wyatt Kaufman, Reece and Drake Napier, Beyla Nyaforh and one on the way; his siblings, Shirley Wilds and her husband Larry, Rose Masters, and Wayne Frazee; as well as many other family members and friends.

Fond memories and condolences may be left at www.chapelhill-butler.com, as arrangements are under the direction of Chapel Hill – Butler Funeral Home, 701 North 94th Street, Kansas City, Kansas 66112; 913-334-3366.