Juanita Louise Stone Hartin

JUANITA STONE HARTIN Juanita Stone Hartin, 93, died February 21, 2015, at Kansas City Hospice House. She was born October 24, 1921 to Laura and Alva Stone in Jonesboro, Arkansas. She graduated from high school in Viola, Arkansas, where she played half-court basketball. She then attended Chillicothe Business School. On April 20, 1942, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, she married Thomas Lee Hartin, her high school sweetheart who preceded her in death in 2001. While Lee served his country in World War II, Nita worked at the Lake City Arsenal. After the war they lived in Kansas City, where they were active members of Swope Park Baptist Church and made several mission trips, including one to Prince Albert, Canada, where they helped build a church on an Indian Reservation. Nita was a leader for Cub Scouts and Camp Fire Girls and a longtime member of American Legion Post 80 Women’s Auxiliary. Nita worked twenty years at the Kansas City Post Office Employees' Credit Union, retiring in 1979. In 1987, Nita and Lee moved to Brooking Park Retirement Village in Sedalia, Missouri, where Nita could engage in one of her favorite hobbies - fishing. She especially loved reeling in Largemouth Bass and crappie. She also enjoyed gardening, oil painting, piano playing, cards, dancing and travel. They became winter Texans, and Nita eventually visited all fifty states and several foreign countries, including her favorite, China. She loved to tell of climbing the Great Wall at the age of eighty. She was a member of Chapter BB PEO, Sorosis Women's Club, Knife and Fork Club and the Gleaners Sunday School class at Sedalia’s First Baptist Church. Survivors include one daughter, Janet Monsees and husband, Hank, of Prairie Village; one son, Steve Hartin and wife, Sandy, of Overland Park; five grandchildren, Rick Monsees (Laurie), Scott Monsees (Sara), Rob Monsees (Lisa), Brett Hartin (Lindsey), Samantha Hartin; and nine great-grandchildren, Sabrina, Luke, Collin, Mattie, Natalie, Jake, Phoebe and Grace Monsees and Brynley Hartin. She was preceded in death by a son, Dennis Hartin, and sister, Opal Holt. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 25th, at Newcomer's Floral Hills Chapel, 7000 Blue Ridge Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri, followed by a memorial service at 10:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to Kansas City Hospice House, 12000 Wornall, Kansas City, MO, 64145 or Grace Point Baptist Church, 10415 Chestnut Drive, Kansas City, MO, 64137 or First Baptist Church, 200 East 6th Street, Sedalia, MO, 65301. (Arrangements by Newcomer's Sons Floral Hills, 816-353-1218, www.floralhillsfuneralhome.com)