Kaye (Stevenson) Crim

Kaye Crim, age 79 of Edgerton, Kansas passed away Wednesday, July 10, 2024 at her home with family by her side. Funeral services will be 10AM, Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at Wilson’s Funeral Home in Wellsville. Visitation will be 6-8PM, Monday evening, also at the funeral home. Burial will follow services at Pleasant Valley Cemetery in Fort Scott, Kansas at 1:30PM, Tuesday. Memorial contributions may be made to Jeana K. Omoh for the benefit of the Crim Family Reunion.

Kaye Crim was born November 10, 1944, in Chillicothe, Missouri, the daughter of Raymond A. and Phyllis (Reger) Stevenson. She grew up in Wheeling, Missouri and graduated from Meadville Missouri High School in 1963. She had belonged to the Meadville First Baptist Church. Kaye moved to Olathe, Kansas in 1964 and worked for Electronic Research for two years. On May 26, 1967, she married Leo G. Crim in Morse, Kansas. They were married 37 years before his passing in 2004. Leo and Kaye moved to Gardner and lived there from 1972 to 1979. In November of 1979, they purchased a farm outside of Edgerton, Kansas where they spent their remaining years.

Kaye went to work for Leisure Care Pet Products in 1982. They later sold to Hawkeye in 1985 and then to Mid America Products. She worked a total of 10 years before Leo started a basement foundation business in May of 1992. Kaye was instrumental in helping run the family business and was also the bookkeeper. She ran the business for two years after Leo’s passing before retiring in 2006. Kaye was currently a member of the Antioch Baptist Church.

Kaye is survived by her 4 children: twin daughters, Janet Roggenkamp of Kissee Mill, MO and Jeana Omoh of Wellsville, KS; daughter, Carol Winters (David) of Ottawa, KS; son, Steven Crim of Edgerton, KS; 11 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great grandchild on the way; sisters, Karen Brown and Annette Stevenson; a brother, Fred Stevenson, and her significant other, Ken Bingman.

She is preceded in death by her parents, husband and foster sister, Judy Miller-Lambert (1974).

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