Lois Joan Kalthoff

Lois Joan Powers Kalthoff of Lexington, Missouri passed away peacefully into the arms of her Lord on February 15, 2023. Lois was born on January 24, 1931, to Willard Blair and Mary Marie (McClaskey) Powers in Kansas City, Missouri. The oldest of nine children, Lois attended school in Kansas City and later in Sweet Springs, Missouri where she also worked with her grandmother at the Sweet Springs Diner and Truck Stop as a teenager.

On February 24, 1949, she married Carl J. Kalthoff at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Marshall, Missouri and lived there for several years. The couple, then with two children, moved to Waverly, Missouri where they lived until 1967. With their six children, Lois and Carl moved to Lexington, Missouri. Lois enjoyed working for many years at Reed’s Department Store and at the Holiday Inn in Lexington. She was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church.

In 1974 Lois and Carl were divorced. Lois, and her youngest sons, later moved to the Kansas City area. Lois worked for many years at National Finance Company of Kansas City until her retirement in 2002. She then became a caregiver for elderly friends and later her son, Steven. She often attended Solid Rock Fellowship Church. In 2018 Lois moved back to Lexington.

Lois was a strong woman of Faith, Compassion and Hope, a loving mother, and a woman of many talents. She loved history, music, dancing, gardening, antiquing, cooking, and most of all her Family and the Lord. All through her life she conducted Bible Studies at Church and at her home with family, friends, and neighbors, including the homeless. Lois frequently helped the homeless in her neighborhood personally, through her church and through other organizations. She lived and walked by Faith and for the Service of helping others. In more recent years she strongly supported Beaumont Baptist Church and their programs which assist the homeless. Lois always had a great love and respect for all Veterans. She stayed in close touch with the Wounded Warriors Project in particular and helped to support them for years.

Lois was preceded in death by her parents Willard Powers and Marie Powers Meredith, Stepfather Francis Meredith, her sons, C. John Kalthoff SCPO-USN-Ret and Steven S. Kalthoff, daughter, JoAnna Kalthoff Faulwell, son-in-law, Ed Faulwell, brother James L. Powers, sister-in-law, Ruby Powers, and sisters, Fern Adkins, Jean Utter, and Brother-in-law Ray Utter.

She is survived by her son, Willard B. Kalthoff of Kansas City, Missouri, two daughters, Karen E. Meierer (James) of Lexington, Missouri and Michelle J. Railey (Monte) of Missouri City, Missouri, son of the heart, David Johnson, numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren, a brother, Willard B. Powers (Joni Diaz), four sisters, Mary Foster (Preston), Sharon Berry (Wayne), Victoria Catron, and Deborah Mayfield (Tom), many nieces, nephews and friends.

A Memorial Service will take place on February 25, 2023, at the:

Beaumont Baptist Church
83t19 Independence Ave.
Kansas City, Missouri
Visitation 12:00 pm
Memorial Service 1:00 pm

In lieu of flowers the family suggests a donation to Beaumont Baptist Church or The Wounded Warriors Project Donate Here for Wounded Warrior Project

Visits: 4

Condolences

  1. Bill Powers & Joni Diaz on February 22, 2023 at 9:44 pm

    Thank you for sharing with us. Our thoughts and hearts will be there with you.

    Much love,



  2. Nephew David Adkins and Brenda on February 23, 2023 at 8:07 am

    Our thoughts and prayers are with the family . Aunt Lois had an spiritual and joyful impact on so many and left us with so many sweet memories. Go Rest High sweet Aunt Lois, until we meet again.



  3. Valoree Maycock on February 23, 2023 at 10:18 am

    Lois was a true Matriarch! Faith and family were her foundation and force. She made her mark in this world and will be truly missed by those she served, and by her family and friends. Thoughts and blessings to the loved ones left behind to grieve her passing. Her heavenly family is surely joining in her joy!



  4. Rev. Dr. James W. Kalthoff, Jr. on February 23, 2023 at 5:32 pm

    Dear family of Lois:
    I always admired her as my Aunt by marriage to my uncle Carl Kalthoff. At some of our family reunions and at Uncle Carl’s funeral I talked with her about her love of Jesus our Lord and her concern for those have difficulties and personally helping them in anyway she could. She was a woman of strong faith always, and in some difficult times she did not waver.
    My wife Vickie and I are sorry we cannot in person share our condolences. See Rev.14:13.
    Rev. Dr. James W. Kalthoff, Jr. and Vickie
    Peoria, AZ



  5. Sue Johnson & Mark Young on February 24, 2023 at 7:50 pm

    To The Kalthoff Family:

    We did not know Lois well, but well enough to know she was an amazing woman, a wonderful mother, and a woman full of love for everyone she met. She is in Heaven now with our Lord Jesus Christ and our hope is that she will meet our relatives Charlie Johnson and Allen Young who will receive her with welcome arms. God bless her and keep her.



  6. Ron Davenport on February 25, 2023 at 6:32 pm

    God bless Lois. I knew her from many years ago as a handyman through Michelle and Monte. She was a good soul and left a wonderful legacy through all of her children.



  7. Michelle Kalthoff Railey on March 6, 2023 at 1:13 pm

    Our mother, Lois, never wavered from her Love of and Faith in the Lord. She set an example to us and to her grandchildren of
    truly walking in “Faith, Hope and Love”.

    2 Timothy 1:5
    “When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.”



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