Nettie H. (Huston) Mckeever

Nettie H. (Huston) McKeever, 101, of Independence, Missouri, passed away on Friday, December 16, 2022 at St. Luke’s East Hospital in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Funeral services are scheduled for 2:00 PM on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at Park Lawn Funeral Home, 8251 Hillcrest Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64138. A visitation will be from 1:00 – 2:00 PM prior to the service at the funeral home. Entombment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.

Nettie was born on April 5, 1921 in the rural Missouri town of Vichey. She taught in a one room school for a time before marrying a U.S. Air Force officer and traveling from base to base around the country. She settled in Independence in 1960 to be near her family. She worked various jobs in the area. She became a traveling sales person covering several states for Burlington Hosiery, before settling down in The Jones Store (Blue Ridge Mall) as a cosmetics consultant for Este’ Lauder. After retiring she helped her sister manage an apartment complex for several years before retiring again. She has vacationed in all fifty states and enjoyed traveling with her friends.

Nettie was the mother of one son, an aunt/mother to one niece, a grandmother to four, a great grandmother to seven, and a great great grandmother to four.

Funeral services are scheduled for 2:00 PM on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at Park Lawn Funeral Home, 8251 Hillcrest Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64138. A visitation will be from 1:00 – 2:00 PM prior to the service at the funeral home. Entombment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.