"The Teacher Is Like the Candle, Which Lights Others, While Consuming Itself."
Ruffini
EAST Principals
Fred L Heine 1970-1979, Arnold Davenport 1984, Unknown 1990s,
Another Brick in the Wall
Color My World
In the Air Tonight
NELLIE STARBUCK McKANNA
Nellie Starbuck McKanna, 91 passed away August 04, 2000. Graveside service will be 2 p.m. Friday, August 11, 2000 at D W Newcomer's & Sons Floral Hills Cemetery. Nellie was born June 12, 1909, in Queen City, MO. She was a member of Birchwood Baptist Church. She grew up in northeast Missouri, and was a 1929 graduate of Kirksville State Teachers College, now known as Truman State University. She recieved her master's degree in education from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She devoted most of her life teaching business courses in the Kansas City (MO) public school system. Durning WWII, she taught classes at the University of Kansas City. Nellie taught at Central, Southwest, and EAST HIGH Schools. She began her early career teaching at La Plata and Green City MO. She was preceded in death by her husband of 65 years, Wayne McKanna who served as principal of Northeast High School. Many of her students will remember the bright colored dinner plate size dahilas her husband Wayne grew, that Nellie proudly wore as corsages bringing life to the otherwise dull classroom. (Arrangements: DW Newcomer's Sons Floral Hills Chapel).
WILLIAM THOMAS RIDLEY III
William Thomas Ridley, III ("Bill"), 80, of Leawood, KS, died peacefully on April 28, 2004, at Shawnee Mission Medical Center. No service will be held upon Bill's request. Bill was born September 26, 1923, in St. Joseph, MO, the son of William Thomas Ridley II and Louise Voss Ridley. He was a student at LaFaette High School and St. Jo Junior College. After Pearl Harbor, he entered Naval training to be a fighter pilot, flying wildcats and hellcats. That experience came to mean a great deal to him in later life as a memory and as a continuing interest and story-telling inspiration. In 1945, he married Margaret Ellyn Dawson ("Mike") and they were devoted to each other for 50 years and had three children and three grandchildren. From 1983 until Mike's death in 1995, they were the owners of the Barn Gallery, with Mike out front and Bill in the back. Before the gallery business, Bill was a history teacher and school administrator at Paseo and EAST HIGH Schools, professions that provided him with several abiding friendships and much consternation. Bill is survived by his cherished older sister, Betty Ridley of Springfield, MO, and daughter, Marsha Thrutchley and sons, Dr. Kirk Ridley and Tom Ridley, who along with Mike were the focus of his life and whom he loved very much. The family wishes to thank the doctors and nurses of Shawnee Mission Medical Center and especially Dr. Hassan Saradih and the ICU nurses who dealt with our father in a very compassionate and professional manner. We will miss our parents for the rest of our lives, but we like to think and believe they are together now and happy forever. (Arrangements: D.W. Newcomer's Sons Johnson County Funeral Chapel, 11200 Metcalf, 913-451-1860) Published in the Kansas City Star on 5/2/2004.
MARION WALTER SELL
Marion Walter Sell, 66, Kansas City, MO, former band director at EAST HIGH SCHOOL, died Wednesday, February 11, 1981, at Baptist Memorial Hospital. Mr Sell was a band director at the school 33 years before he retired in 1979. He was a member of the Independent Education Association and the Missouri State Teachers Association. He was an Army Air Corps band director during World War II and wrote the Army Air Corps Band March. Mr Sell was a member of the Children's Memorial Lutheran Church. He was born in Duncombe, Iowa, and had live in this area 46 years. Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at the church. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the Newcomer Brush Creek Chapel.
MARY A ZICKEFOOSE
Mary A Zickefoose, 89, Gladstone, MO, died April 27, 1995, at Trinity Lutheran Hospital. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday, May 1, 1995 at Pettijohn & Crawford Funeral Home, Mound City, MO; Interment in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Mound City, MO. Ms Zickefoose was born September 23, 1905, in Mound City, MO. She was graduated from Mound City High School in 1923. She attended McPherson College, and finished her Bachelor of Science degree at Kansas State University. She did her graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, and finished her Master's Degree at Columbia University. She taught school for five years in Holt County,MO, six years in Hutchinson, KS, and one year at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, KS. She taught 10 years in North Kansas City High School, and ended her teaching career at EAST HIGH School in 1972. She was an active member of VFW Women's Auxiliary. She was a volunteer at VA Hosiptals in Kansas City and Leavenworth. She was preceded in death by Ancil Zickefoose, February 08, 1994.
