James Glen McDaniel, 74, passed away Monday, October 21, 2019 at a nursing home in Cameron, Missouri, where he had been a resident for several years. Jim was born in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri on February 22, 1945, the son of Glen McDaniel and Irene Seelinger McDaniel. He attended Brick Monroe Elementary School and Liberty High School in Liberty, Missouri and was an engineering student at the Rolla School of Mines. He worked at the former Leeds Chevrolet plant in Kansas City.
As a child, he had the opportunity to explore several acres of timber and a small creek behind the family home on the outskirts of Liberty. He and his sister Linda spent hours during cold winter days or hot and humid summer afternoons playing games of Authors, Old Maid, Sorry and Checkers. He also spent a lot of his time on the swing set his dad built when Jim was about four. Jim took the paintbrush and used some of the silver paint to paint a stripe down the back of his sister’s cat, having seen skunks at a distance on their property. Old radio shows provided entertainment until the family got a black and white television when he was about ten. Jim was a Junior Deputy Sheriff, Cub Scout and 4-H Club member. He won a blue ribbon for his chocolate chip cookies at the county level.
While in the eighth grade, Jim entered a contest by Beech Nut gum and used the name Dochew for the advertising puppet. He was one of 50 national winners and won a trip for two to the nightime Dick Clark show where he met Dick Clark and several pop singing stars.
Jim was preceded in death by his father Glen McDaniel in 1969 and his mother Irene Seelinger McDaniel in 1982. He is survived by his sister Linda McDaniel Coble and nephew James Coble of Las Vegas, his niece Melissa (Erik) Coble Vick of Penfield, New York. He also has Missouri cousins including Roma Seelinger Welch of Adrian and Gerald Seelinger of Sedalia.
Jim’s family goes back many generations on both sides of the family. During the last two years his sister, a volunteer at the Las Vegas Family Search Library, provided genealogy information showing that Jim was related to 41 US Presidents, a number of movie and television stars, as well as many entertainers such as Elvis Presley who Jim met in 1962 in the lobby of the Memphian Theater where Elvis watched movies after hours when he was home in Memphis between making movies himself.
A short memorial graveside service will be held on Tuesday, November 5 at 10:00 AM, at Oak Hill Cemetery (Seelinger Southwest area) in Butler, Missouri. Church-Archer-Pasley Funeral Home of Liberty is handling arrangements.
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