Carl W. Ison

Carl W. Ison, 100, of Lenexa, Kansas, passed away June 30, 2010.

He was born the first of ten on October 5, 1909, in Pleasanton, Kansas, where he grew up on a farm outside town. He married Vivian Castle and they attended Kansas State College in Pittsburg where he majored in mathematics. He taught mathematics and worked as a coach in Pittsburg before moving to Overland Park to join the staff of Shawnee Mission North. He later received a master's degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City .

During World War II, he joined the navy and spent most of the next three years learning and teaching others about antisubmarine warfare in Boston . At the end of the war, he returned to Overland Park where he later became an assistant principal then the first principal of the new Shawnee Mission East in 1958.

After eighteen years in administration, he retired in 1974 and moved to Sun City, Arizona . There he became an avid golfer and talented ballroom dancer. After Vivian's death, Marjorie Barnett and he married. When Marjorie had a stroke, they moved to Lakeview Village in Lenexa , Kansas, to be near her children.

Carl died on June 30, 2010, eight months after celebrating his 100th birthday with a dancing party.

The survivors include his daughter, Karlan Ison Sick; two grandchildren, Jeffrey Sick (Geoffrey Castle) and Gyneth Walker; three great grandchildren, Gareth Sick and Gordon and Saskia Walker; and four sisters, Dorothy Haffely, Betty Reynolds, Mary Baker, and Barbara Morris.

Memorial donations in Carl's memory may be made to the Carl W. Ison Award at Shawnee Mission East High School, 7500 Mission Road, Prairie Village, Kansas 66208.

Memorial Service

A memorial service will be held 10:30 am, Saturday, July 3, 2010, at Heritage Center in Lakeview Village, 9100 Park Street, Lenexa, Kansas.