Theo Hitchens

VANLANINGHAM, HITCHENS, WRIGHT, BADMAN, HITCHENS

Posted By: d beier (email)
Date: 2/10/2007 at 20:21:44

Theo Hitchens
INDEPENDENCE - Funeral services for Theo Hitchens were held 1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28, at the White Funeral Home, with the Rev. Steve Waughtal officiating. Mrs. Monte Cue, organist, and Monte Cue, soloist provided music. Burial was in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Independence, with Paul Greif, Merlin Matteson, Maurice Pentecost, John Hosmer, David Higgins and Richard Campbell serving as casket bearers. Honorary bearers were Charles Potts, Jim Becker, Cecil Smith and Karl Fricke. A military service was held during visitation on Thursday.
Mr. Hitchens, 80, died Monday, Nov. 24, 1997, at West Village Care Center in Independence.
He was born Sept. 3, 1917, in Masonville, the son of Irvin and Ada VanLaningham Hitchens. He graduated from both Independence High School and Independence Junior College. On Sept. 4, 1946, he married Glenda Wright Badman at the Golgatha Lutheran Church in Chicago, Ill. Before retiring, the couple owned and operated the Colonial Motel in
Independence for 30 years. Mr. Hitchens was a medical corpsman in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church Sheehan-Tidball American Legion Post 30, and a life member of Bechter-Boies VFW Post 2440, all of Independence. An avid hunter, Mr. Hitchens was also a member of Ducks Unlimited and Pheasants Forever.
Survivors include one brother, Ray D. Hitchens of Denver, Colo.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Glenda, Feb. 8, 1981; and one brother, Oscar Hitchens.