A Rosary will be said at 10:45am and then a Visitation will be held on Friday, July 20th from 11:00am to 12:00pm followed by a 12:00pm Funeral Mass at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, 4101 East 105th Terrace, Kansas City, Missouri. A graveside service and burial will take place at 11:00am, Saturday, July 21st at St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, 1101 Perry Avenue, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
He was born March 12th, 1918 in Yonkers, New York, the only son of Hugh and Minnie (Ellis) Latimer. He served in the US Army during World War II. He married Agnes Wulfers of Cape Girardeau, Missouri on June 4, 1946. They lived in Memphis, Tennessee where they had two sons, Charles Hugh and Edward Gerard, before moving to Kansas City in 1959 where Charles worked as a statistician at Bendix and Allied Signal Corporations until his retirement in 1988. He had Bachelor and Master’s Degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from Columbia University, Oregon State College and UMKC. He also enjoyed teaching statistics part-time at UMKC and local community colleges. He was an active member of the Kansas City Chapter of the American Society for Quality Control.
Charles “Charlie” Latimer was a kind and loving family man who was devoted to his wife and children. He was active in his children’s activities throughout the years. He and Agnes were avid dancers in square and round dancing. Later he took up ballroom dancing which he continued until he was 95.
He is survived by his two sons, Chuck Latimer (Linda) of Kansas City, Missouri, and Ed Latimer (Jean) of The Villages, Florida; three grandchildren Kenneth Latimer, Cathy Stockdale, and Annette Hochstetter, and four great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife Agnes and grandson Robert.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Charlie’s name to the American Diabetes Association, 6900 College Boulevard, Leawood, Kansas 66211; (913) 383-8210; http://www.diabetes.org/
Charlie will certainly be remembered by all who had the good fortune of knowing him, and we will all miss his story-telling.
