Kathleen D'Ette Sumerall

June 21, 1923 - January 19, 2012

Kathleen D'Ette Sumerall, 88, Excelsior Springs, passed away Thursday January 19, 2012 at Valley Manor and Rehab Center in Excelsior Springs. Graveside services will be held at 3:00 pm Sunday January 22, 2012 at Parklawn Cemetery, Brookfield, with Reverend David Blakely officiating. The will be no scheduled visitation. Memorials have been suggested to the Park Baptist Church and may be left at or sent to the funeral home, 216 Linn Street, Brookfield, Missouri 64628. Kathleen D'Ette was born on June 21, 1923 on the family farm in rural Linn County to Clarence Aubrey and Ruth Hannah Miller Dodd. She attended school in South Eagle and Forker before graduating from high school in Brookfield in 1940. She attended Central Methodist College. On March 30, 1946 she married Lloyd Wright (Larry) Sumerall in Kansas City, Kansas and she worked in various locations while he served in the military. Mrs. Sumerall had been employed with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Jackson, Mississippi and the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. They resided in Brookfield from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s when they moved to Springfield, Missouri. In 2001, she moved to the Kansas City area. She was a member of Park Baptist Church. She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Mike and Marielos Sumerall, and Scott and Ellen Sumerall; one granddaughter and her husband, Lauren and Chad Hays; one brother and sister-in-law, Clarence and Doris Dodd; five nieces and seven nephews. Kathleen was preceded in death by her parents, husband, a niece and a nephew.