Veteran: WW II (Army Engineers)
H/o 1st Beverly Dare Reese, 2nd Mrs Elizabeth Heryer Delaney
Birth: 2nd of two known children in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Bill descended from a very famous Jewish family, going back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where one of them was personal physician to Franz Joseph (whose small bronze statue mounted on his horse, was given me by Bill's 2nd wife), according to his namesake nephew, William Huff June 2014.
Bill was a graduate of the Class of 1930, Southwest High School, Kansas City, Missouri. He became an Architect as had been his namesake maternal grandfather, William Frederick Schrage. Bill, in his earliest years, was with the Architectural firm of Wight & Wight, whose firm profoundly influenced Kansas City's architectural landscape with prominent designs that included the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Jackson County Courthouse, the Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building, and City Hall to name but a few, prior to Bill branching out on his own.
Census: 1920, age 6 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with parents & older sister at 5509 Tracy avenue.
Census: 1930, age 16 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri at widowed maternal grandmother's home with mother & older sister at 809 Huntington road, a student Southwest High School. (father in National Military Home, Leavenworth county, Kansas) Residing at 827 was James M Kemper and his family.
Census: 1940, age 26 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with parents & older sister in former home of maternal grandparents at 809 Huntington road, an Architect.
~ City Directories:
1935, Kansas City, residence 809 Huntington road, an Architect.
1939, Kansas City, residence 809 Huntington road, with Architectural office 6315 Brookside Boulevard, #200.
1940 & '41 Kansas City, residence 809 Huntington road, with Architectural office 7449 Broadway, #201 & 202.
1948 & 1953 Kansas City, Architectural office 404-1/2 west 75th street, # 212 to 214.
1955, Kansas City, residence with 1st wife, 8437 Belleview avenue.
1962 & 1963, Johnson county, Kansas, residence 7930 Nall avenue, Prairie Village, Architectural office (Mission State Bank building), 5437 Johnson drive, Mission.
Following found in 26 JUN 1966 issue, K C Star, to wit:
"A PROTOTYPE OF Skelly Oil and Nickerson Columbia, Mo. THE SERVICE STATION-CAFE chain planned by Farms restaurants is this one already in operation in ^HE Skelly Oil company has begun a chain of combined service stations and restaurants in association with Nickerson & Nickerson, Inc., of Eldon, Mo. Paul A. Tanner, vice-president of marketing for Skelly, whose headquarters are in Kansas City, and I. J. Nickerson, president of the Nickerson Farms restaurant firm, said 70 of the joint facilities are planned along 15,000 miles of the interstate highway system in 17 states. Twenty-one units already are in the building stage, and about half are in operation. The first of three or four planned in the metropolitan Kansas City is to be constructed on 1-70 at Blue Springs. It is expected to be open by October 1. Skelly is one of the largest developers of combination service stations-restaurants on the interstate system in the Middlewest, Tanner said. In addition to a full menu, the Nickerson Farms dining rooms will offer homemade candies, Alewel's hams. Each location is to include a specially designed plastic beehive, where patrons can watch a working colony of bees as they produce honey. The cafes will offer 22 varieties of honey, Nickerson said. All 70 of the units are to have the same design, a red- roofed old English style building 35 by 135 feet. Seating for 110 is planned in each unit. Architect for the chain is William S. Loth & Associates of Kansas City." ~ (an associate was Gordon Heffley, who with wife Mary were then residing at 3800 west 61st terrace, Fairway, Johnson county, Kansas with several children.)
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I met Bill following his June 1967 Kansas divorce by his first wife Beverly Dare Reese Loth, where exposed was "all of the dirty laundry", ~ then we became best of friends and knew him during his last few years of an extraordinary life (he never met a stranger). On his watch fob he had a gold medal, with the Star of David one side, Saint Christopher on other, said, he was covering all bases. He even once offered to give me his house which the court forced him to furnish his wife, if I would just marry her, which I didn't. They had three daughters, two of whom were twins and married, quiet "Val" and vivacious "Vicki", who also choose to not stay with their mother, however the court ordered the underaged son, William S, to be with his mother, Beverly.
One of the tales he told of his younger days was, he and young Tommy Pendergast were buddies, who once "borrowed an un-occupied police car" to joyride in, ~ ~ who would do anything against Boss Pendergast's son in those days? Bill, later had been an Army officer, within the Corps of Engineers, during and in the Battle of the Bulge and told me his commander disliked him, so once sent him as the point of a recon mission, checking for Germans, which he found entrenched on both hillsides of the roadway, so his commander wanted to drive down to see for himself, Bill warned that his Staff Car would draw enemy fire, which it did, so they both went into a barn where Bill got behind a cow, then his commander gave him a direct order to get out so he could hide there, but Bill didn't, even under the threat of a Court Marshall. After the European War was won, his commander had special orders cut to ship Bill to the Pacific War instead of home for a discharge like he should have, based upon the number of service points Bill earned in Europe. He was however diverted to Fort Leavenworth Kansas from his voyage to the Pacific Theater, where they would NOT discharge him, so Bill enjoyed the surroundings of the Officer's Club till they decided to release him from the Army. Bill gave me a small stainless steel keepsake box he took from a dead German officer along with his Luger. After Bill's death, Elizabeth had me dispose of the German Luger taken from that dead German officer, plus a couple other guns he had.
We spent most every Saturday together, sometimes with his only brother-in-law, Henry Philip Huff (1908-1973), only true genius I ever knew, visiting, the then only Meyer's Jewelry store, downtown, where his childhood friend Fran Barnett worked, her father, a Jeweler with offices about 6th floor near Woolf Bros Clothing store, whom we would also visit with), going through their junk gold, and to coin shops and some pawn shops. He and I once journeyed to San Juan, Puerto Rico for awhile, were to stay in my brother's condo, but we learned at an evening dinner with his family, that his 'restrictions' were more than we wanted, ~ so we stayed at the then, American Hotel on the beach. We flew over to Saint Thomas where we spent a night aboard his friends yacht, whose beautiful and charming lady friend had been a Nazi pilot in WW II.
Because of Bill's connection with the Mission State Bank officers, we once had 'the run of the bank' during its closed evening hours when setting up our American and Foreign gold coin collections in glass top locked cases as a display for the enlightenment of & enjoyment by, its bank customers. ~ ~ Then during the coin crisis of the mid & late 1960s, Bill would buy bags of silver coins at a slight premium, from varies sources he knew of around the Kansas City metropolitan area for the bank's supply, of which the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank was unable to keep up with, in order to provide coins for their business customers, ~ ~ however. We being coin collectors, would first search for collectible dates finding many, before turning the rest over to the bank, until the U S Mints could keep up with the demand, in so far as silver coins became a premium crop, selling for over face value. This continued for several months, with us spending our evening hours in Bill's basement office searching. ~ ~ During this same period, unbeknownst to me, my father was involved with a group in Carthage, Missouri who through a local bank over a period of time had drained all bags, several at a time, of 1878 to 1934 Silver Dollars from the Kansas City Federal Reserve Banking system, likewise, searching for collectible dates finding all with but two or three exceptions, of all dates of each year & from each mint, selling the collectible dates, returning others to the bank.
Following his heart attack in Kansas City, we parked at Plaza's nearly thirty year old, Winstead's Drive-Inn, and would walk (the 1st time I got a very large blister on one foot, that burst) from the Country Club Plaza along Brookside boulevard to Brookside Plaza at 63rd street where he once had his office, having a coke at Katz drug store, then back. They called me from Saint Croix of the Virgin Islands when they ran off and got married, also later, called regularly when in Geneva Switzerland.
Once with second wife on their way to the then new resort area of Cancun they stopped in Mexico City where Bill found two Patek Philippe watches, which he proudly showed me, that he bought for just fifty bucks each to add to his watch collection. His as of 3 JUN 1867, son-in-law, Greg Steven Holden, and he would often argue which was best, Patek Philippe or Rolex. He also had traded for a gold Rolex at a pawn shop west of Main on 12th street's south side, where I ended up with his stainless steel Rolex for fifty bucks, which he had traded for the gold one (I sold it twenty some years later in Naples, Florida for $200).
I also visited he and Elizabeth when they were in Scottsdale, Arizona where we bought our gold bolo ties at Andrew of Scottsdale, which he said had $35 gold in them, mine 18k his 14K, also had two sets of French cuff links made from my small gold coins, also where she bought her Rolls Royce when the rental company took their rented one from them. Then later in 1970 visited them in Bal Harbour, Florida, but stayed south across the street from their hotel, at a place in Surfside, Florida, walking the beach each morning while the crews were busy burying the nights build-up of sea-weeds. We would often eat at one of Xavier Cugat's ex-wife's, Abby Lane's wonderful restaurant, serving nothing fancy, just good common food, located about three blocks from the beach, operated by her parents, (still there some twenty years later, but NOT serving as good food).
His youngest daughter, "Vi", had a black child and oldest, "Val", had a white one, so Bill squired them, all dolled up, one on each arm, around during the Easter Parade at the Country Club Plaza, telling me, he had his "Salt and Pepper" grandchildren on his arm. We also often laid around the swim pool at The Kansas City Carriage Club, formerly Mission Hills Country Club, where he once let me drive their Rolls Royce she bought in Scottsdale when the time on their rented Rolls expired. Bill's last Architectural office was in the basement of the then Mission State Bank building at Nall avenue and Johnson drive, Mission, Kansas.
Bill called me the night he died to tell me goodbye, however, I did not attend his funeral but his daughter, "Vickie", called me afterwards and said that "we both knew" he was in a tree laughing down at the burial of his remains. His wife gave me his white alligator shoes and two gold bolos made by Andrew of Scottsdale, and asked me to get his pistols un-registered so she could dispose of them, Elizabeth then died but a couple months later, surviving was a daughter, Betty, whom I once dated, with two daughters then moving to San Francisco, California area, inviting me to continue use of the Carriage Club, which I didn't.
Death: at Saint Joseph Hospital in Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
~ OBITUARY:
Kansas City Star
William S Loth of 4720 Roanoke Parkway , an architect here 58 years, died Sunday at Saint Joseph Hospital.
Mr. Loth, a lifelong Kansas City resident and an Army veteran of World War II was a
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member of the American Registered Architects and the American Institute of Architects. He was a member of the Carriage Club.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth H Loth of the home, a son, William S Loth, Jr., 7930 Nall, Overland Park; three daughters, Mrs. Greg Holden, 8800 W 102nd and Mrs. Kenneth Diggs, 9001 Reeder, both Overland Park, and Vivian Loth, 4303 Pearl, Kansas City, Kansas, and a sister Mrs. Henry P Huff, 809 Huntington Road. Private graveside services at 2 p.m. today at Mount Moriah Cemetery. The family requests no flowers.
Father: Victor Hugo Loth b: 16 DEC 1868 Saint Louis City, Missouri.
Mother: Lillian Pauline Schrage b: 7 JAN 1883 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Marriage 1: Beverly Dare Reese b: 17 JUL 1922 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Married: 27 JUL 1943 Camp Rucker, Alabama.
Known Children
A big thank you to Sea Sand, a teenage friend, for the message of 17 MAY 2014, straightening me out on birth of the daughters. ~ ~ A part of the 2nd message of the 19th, to wit: I wish I knew where the twins were. As I said, Vi passed away a few years ago from lung cancer - so sad. I don't believe she ever married. Vicki and Greg divorced. Not sure about Val and Ken Diggs. Val was always the comedian and likened herself to Carol Burnett - who she met once. I will never forget Vicki's eyes - one brown and one blue. They went to Shawnee Mission West high school and I went to Shawnee Mission East. The twins were as different as day and night. Vicki was the beauty and Val was the outgoing one. Another memory I have is when their dad had a Princess Phone put in their bedroom. Not an extension. They had their own line and number. I envied them so much. We spend a lot of time on that phone. Val loved to call boys she was interested in. Sometimes she would have me call them for her and ask if they liked her. Super embarrassing!
Valerie "Val" Dorothy and Victoria "Vicki" Diane who were un-identical twins b: 1946 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Vivian "Vi" Dare Loth b: 4 JUL 1950 or 48 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
William S Loth, Jr b: 5 JUN 1952 Johnson county, Kansas.
Marriage 2: Mrs Elizabeth Heryer Delaney b: 19 NOV 1903 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Married: 1968 Saint Croix, U S Virgin Island.
No issues.
~ ~ following was originally entered on the page:
Married Beverly Dare Reese, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Woodson, on July 27, 1943.
Lieut. William Loth was stationed at Camp Rucker, Ala.
(info source; Kansas City Star Newspaper August 8, 1943;
provided by Ann Salisbury, contributor 47359592)
~ Transferred 10 NOV 2013 then prepared in most part by Bill Boggess.
Note: The dates on the grave marker & the MO death record do not match. Add'l sources indicate that Bill was indeed born in 1913. Thanks to Randal Loy 5 July 2023 for the clarification.
H/o 1st Beverly Dare Reese, 2nd Mrs Elizabeth Heryer Delaney
Birth: 2nd of two known children in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Bill descended from a very famous Jewish family, going back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where one of them was personal physician to Franz Joseph (whose small bronze statue mounted on his horse, was given me by Bill's 2nd wife), according to his namesake nephew, William Huff June 2014.
Bill was a graduate of the Class of 1930, Southwest High School, Kansas City, Missouri. He became an Architect as had been his namesake maternal grandfather, William Frederick Schrage. Bill, in his earliest years, was with the Architectural firm of Wight & Wight, whose firm profoundly influenced Kansas City's architectural landscape with prominent designs that included the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Jackson County Courthouse, the Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building, and City Hall to name but a few, prior to Bill branching out on his own.
Census: 1920, age 6 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with parents & older sister at 5509 Tracy avenue.
Census: 1930, age 16 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri at widowed maternal grandmother's home with mother & older sister at 809 Huntington road, a student Southwest High School. (father in National Military Home, Leavenworth county, Kansas) Residing at 827 was James M Kemper and his family.
Census: 1940, age 26 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with parents & older sister in former home of maternal grandparents at 809 Huntington road, an Architect.
~ City Directories:
1935, Kansas City, residence 809 Huntington road, an Architect.
1939, Kansas City, residence 809 Huntington road, with Architectural office 6315 Brookside Boulevard, #200.
1940 & '41 Kansas City, residence 809 Huntington road, with Architectural office 7449 Broadway, #201 & 202.
1948 & 1953 Kansas City, Architectural office 404-1/2 west 75th street, # 212 to 214.
1955, Kansas City, residence with 1st wife, 8437 Belleview avenue.
1962 & 1963, Johnson county, Kansas, residence 7930 Nall avenue, Prairie Village, Architectural office (Mission State Bank building), 5437 Johnson drive, Mission.
Following found in 26 JUN 1966 issue, K C Star, to wit:
"A PROTOTYPE OF Skelly Oil and Nickerson Columbia, Mo. THE SERVICE STATION-CAFE chain planned by Farms restaurants is this one already in operation in ^HE Skelly Oil company has begun a chain of combined service stations and restaurants in association with Nickerson & Nickerson, Inc., of Eldon, Mo. Paul A. Tanner, vice-president of marketing for Skelly, whose headquarters are in Kansas City, and I. J. Nickerson, president of the Nickerson Farms restaurant firm, said 70 of the joint facilities are planned along 15,000 miles of the interstate highway system in 17 states. Twenty-one units already are in the building stage, and about half are in operation. The first of three or four planned in the metropolitan Kansas City is to be constructed on 1-70 at Blue Springs. It is expected to be open by October 1. Skelly is one of the largest developers of combination service stations-restaurants on the interstate system in the Middlewest, Tanner said. In addition to a full menu, the Nickerson Farms dining rooms will offer homemade candies, Alewel's hams. Each location is to include a specially designed plastic beehive, where patrons can watch a working colony of bees as they produce honey. The cafes will offer 22 varieties of honey, Nickerson said. All 70 of the units are to have the same design, a red- roofed old English style building 35 by 135 feet. Seating for 110 is planned in each unit. Architect for the chain is William S. Loth & Associates of Kansas City." ~ (an associate was Gordon Heffley, who with wife Mary were then residing at 3800 west 61st terrace, Fairway, Johnson county, Kansas with several children.)
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I met Bill following his June 1967 Kansas divorce by his first wife Beverly Dare Reese Loth, where exposed was "all of the dirty laundry", ~ then we became best of friends and knew him during his last few years of an extraordinary life (he never met a stranger). On his watch fob he had a gold medal, with the Star of David one side, Saint Christopher on other, said, he was covering all bases. He even once offered to give me his house which the court forced him to furnish his wife, if I would just marry her, which I didn't. They had three daughters, two of whom were twins and married, quiet "Val" and vivacious "Vicki", who also choose to not stay with their mother, however the court ordered the underaged son, William S, to be with his mother, Beverly.
One of the tales he told of his younger days was, he and young Tommy Pendergast were buddies, who once "borrowed an un-occupied police car" to joyride in, ~ ~ who would do anything against Boss Pendergast's son in those days? Bill, later had been an Army officer, within the Corps of Engineers, during and in the Battle of the Bulge and told me his commander disliked him, so once sent him as the point of a recon mission, checking for Germans, which he found entrenched on both hillsides of the roadway, so his commander wanted to drive down to see for himself, Bill warned that his Staff Car would draw enemy fire, which it did, so they both went into a barn where Bill got behind a cow, then his commander gave him a direct order to get out so he could hide there, but Bill didn't, even under the threat of a Court Marshall. After the European War was won, his commander had special orders cut to ship Bill to the Pacific War instead of home for a discharge like he should have, based upon the number of service points Bill earned in Europe. He was however diverted to Fort Leavenworth Kansas from his voyage to the Pacific Theater, where they would NOT discharge him, so Bill enjoyed the surroundings of the Officer's Club till they decided to release him from the Army. Bill gave me a small stainless steel keepsake box he took from a dead German officer along with his Luger. After Bill's death, Elizabeth had me dispose of the German Luger taken from that dead German officer, plus a couple other guns he had.
We spent most every Saturday together, sometimes with his only brother-in-law, Henry Philip Huff (1908-1973), only true genius I ever knew, visiting, the then only Meyer's Jewelry store, downtown, where his childhood friend Fran Barnett worked, her father, a Jeweler with offices about 6th floor near Woolf Bros Clothing store, whom we would also visit with), going through their junk gold, and to coin shops and some pawn shops. He and I once journeyed to San Juan, Puerto Rico for awhile, were to stay in my brother's condo, but we learned at an evening dinner with his family, that his 'restrictions' were more than we wanted, ~ so we stayed at the then, American Hotel on the beach. We flew over to Saint Thomas where we spent a night aboard his friends yacht, whose beautiful and charming lady friend had been a Nazi pilot in WW II.
Because of Bill's connection with the Mission State Bank officers, we once had 'the run of the bank' during its closed evening hours when setting up our American and Foreign gold coin collections in glass top locked cases as a display for the enlightenment of & enjoyment by, its bank customers. ~ ~ Then during the coin crisis of the mid & late 1960s, Bill would buy bags of silver coins at a slight premium, from varies sources he knew of around the Kansas City metropolitan area for the bank's supply, of which the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank was unable to keep up with, in order to provide coins for their business customers, ~ ~ however. We being coin collectors, would first search for collectible dates finding many, before turning the rest over to the bank, until the U S Mints could keep up with the demand, in so far as silver coins became a premium crop, selling for over face value. This continued for several months, with us spending our evening hours in Bill's basement office searching. ~ ~ During this same period, unbeknownst to me, my father was involved with a group in Carthage, Missouri who through a local bank over a period of time had drained all bags, several at a time, of 1878 to 1934 Silver Dollars from the Kansas City Federal Reserve Banking system, likewise, searching for collectible dates finding all with but two or three exceptions, of all dates of each year & from each mint, selling the collectible dates, returning others to the bank.
Following his heart attack in Kansas City, we parked at Plaza's nearly thirty year old, Winstead's Drive-Inn, and would walk (the 1st time I got a very large blister on one foot, that burst) from the Country Club Plaza along Brookside boulevard to Brookside Plaza at 63rd street where he once had his office, having a coke at Katz drug store, then back. They called me from Saint Croix of the Virgin Islands when they ran off and got married, also later, called regularly when in Geneva Switzerland.
Once with second wife on their way to the then new resort area of Cancun they stopped in Mexico City where Bill found two Patek Philippe watches, which he proudly showed me, that he bought for just fifty bucks each to add to his watch collection. His as of 3 JUN 1867, son-in-law, Greg Steven Holden, and he would often argue which was best, Patek Philippe or Rolex. He also had traded for a gold Rolex at a pawn shop west of Main on 12th street's south side, where I ended up with his stainless steel Rolex for fifty bucks, which he had traded for the gold one (I sold it twenty some years later in Naples, Florida for $200).
I also visited he and Elizabeth when they were in Scottsdale, Arizona where we bought our gold bolo ties at Andrew of Scottsdale, which he said had $35 gold in them, mine 18k his 14K, also had two sets of French cuff links made from my small gold coins, also where she bought her Rolls Royce when the rental company took their rented one from them. Then later in 1970 visited them in Bal Harbour, Florida, but stayed south across the street from their hotel, at a place in Surfside, Florida, walking the beach each morning while the crews were busy burying the nights build-up of sea-weeds. We would often eat at one of Xavier Cugat's ex-wife's, Abby Lane's wonderful restaurant, serving nothing fancy, just good common food, located about three blocks from the beach, operated by her parents, (still there some twenty years later, but NOT serving as good food).
His youngest daughter, "Vi", had a black child and oldest, "Val", had a white one, so Bill squired them, all dolled up, one on each arm, around during the Easter Parade at the Country Club Plaza, telling me, he had his "Salt and Pepper" grandchildren on his arm. We also often laid around the swim pool at The Kansas City Carriage Club, formerly Mission Hills Country Club, where he once let me drive their Rolls Royce she bought in Scottsdale when the time on their rented Rolls expired. Bill's last Architectural office was in the basement of the then Mission State Bank building at Nall avenue and Johnson drive, Mission, Kansas.
Bill called me the night he died to tell me goodbye, however, I did not attend his funeral but his daughter, "Vickie", called me afterwards and said that "we both knew" he was in a tree laughing down at the burial of his remains. His wife gave me his white alligator shoes and two gold bolos made by Andrew of Scottsdale, and asked me to get his pistols un-registered so she could dispose of them, Elizabeth then died but a couple months later, surviving was a daughter, Betty, whom I once dated, with two daughters then moving to San Francisco, California area, inviting me to continue use of the Carriage Club, which I didn't.
Death: at Saint Joseph Hospital in Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
~ OBITUARY:
Kansas City Star
William S Loth of 4720 Roanoke Parkway , an architect here 58 years, died Sunday at Saint Joseph Hospital.
Mr. Loth, a lifelong Kansas City resident and an Army veteran of World War II was a
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member of the American Registered Architects and the American Institute of Architects. He was a member of the Carriage Club.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth H Loth of the home, a son, William S Loth, Jr., 7930 Nall, Overland Park; three daughters, Mrs. Greg Holden, 8800 W 102nd and Mrs. Kenneth Diggs, 9001 Reeder, both Overland Park, and Vivian Loth, 4303 Pearl, Kansas City, Kansas, and a sister Mrs. Henry P Huff, 809 Huntington Road. Private graveside services at 2 p.m. today at Mount Moriah Cemetery. The family requests no flowers.
Father: Victor Hugo Loth b: 16 DEC 1868 Saint Louis City, Missouri.
Mother: Lillian Pauline Schrage b: 7 JAN 1883 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Marriage 1: Beverly Dare Reese b: 17 JUL 1922 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Married: 27 JUL 1943 Camp Rucker, Alabama.
Known Children
A big thank you to Sea Sand, a teenage friend, for the message of 17 MAY 2014, straightening me out on birth of the daughters. ~ ~ A part of the 2nd message of the 19th, to wit: I wish I knew where the twins were. As I said, Vi passed away a few years ago from lung cancer - so sad. I don't believe she ever married. Vicki and Greg divorced. Not sure about Val and Ken Diggs. Val was always the comedian and likened herself to Carol Burnett - who she met once. I will never forget Vicki's eyes - one brown and one blue. They went to Shawnee Mission West high school and I went to Shawnee Mission East. The twins were as different as day and night. Vicki was the beauty and Val was the outgoing one. Another memory I have is when their dad had a Princess Phone put in their bedroom. Not an extension. They had their own line and number. I envied them so much. We spend a lot of time on that phone. Val loved to call boys she was interested in. Sometimes she would have me call them for her and ask if they liked her. Super embarrassing!
Valerie "Val" Dorothy and Victoria "Vicki" Diane who were un-identical twins b: 1946 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Vivian "Vi" Dare Loth b: 4 JUL 1950 or 48 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
William S Loth, Jr b: 5 JUN 1952 Johnson county, Kansas.
Marriage 2: Mrs Elizabeth Heryer Delaney b: 19 NOV 1903 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Married: 1968 Saint Croix, U S Virgin Island.
No issues.
~ ~ following was originally entered on the page:
Married Beverly Dare Reese, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Woodson, on July 27, 1943.
Lieut. William Loth was stationed at Camp Rucker, Ala.
(info source; Kansas City Star Newspaper August 8, 1943;
provided by Ann Salisbury, contributor 47359592)
~ Transferred 10 NOV 2013 then prepared in most part by Bill Boggess.
Note: The dates on the grave marker & the MO death record do not match. Add'l sources indicate that Bill was indeed born in 1913. Thanks to Randal Loy 5 July 2023 for the clarification.
Veteran: WW II (Army Engineers)
H/o 1st Beverly Dare Reese, 2nd Mrs Elizabeth Heryer Delaney
Birth: 2nd of two known children in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Bill descended from a very famous Jewish family, going back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where one of them was personal physician to Franz Joseph (whose small bronze statue mounted on his horse, was given me by Bill's 2nd wife), according to his namesake nephew, William Huff June 2014.
Bill was a graduate of the Class of 1930, Southwest High School, Kansas City, Missouri. He became an Architect as had been his namesake maternal grandfather, William Frederick Schrage. Bill, in his earliest years, was with the Architectural firm of Wight & Wight, whose firm profoundly influenced Kansas City's architectural landscape with prominent designs that included the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Jackson County Courthouse, the Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building, and City Hall to name but a few, prior to Bill branching out on his own.
Census: 1920, age 6 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with parents & older sister at 5509 Tracy avenue.
Census: 1930, age 16 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri at widowed maternal grandmother's home with mother & older sister at 809 Huntington road, a student Southwest High School. (father in National Military Home, Leavenworth county, Kansas) Residing at 827 was James M Kemper and his family.
Census: 1940, age 26 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with parents & older sister in former home of maternal grandparents at 809 Huntington road, an Architect.
~ City Directories:
1935, Kansas City, residence 809 Huntington road, an Architect.
1939, Kansas City, residence 809 Huntington road, with Architectural office 6315 Brookside Boulevard, #200.
1940 & '41 Kansas City, residence 809 Huntington road, with Architectural office 7449 Broadway, #201 & 202.
1948 & 1953 Kansas City, Architectural office 404-1/2 west 75th street, # 212 to 214.
1955, Kansas City, residence with 1st wife, 8437 Belleview avenue.
1962 & 1963, Johnson county, Kansas, residence 7930 Nall avenue, Prairie Village, Architectural office (Mission State Bank building), 5437 Johnson drive, Mission.
Following found in 26 JUN 1966 issue, K C Star, to wit:
"A PROTOTYPE OF Skelly Oil and Nickerson Columbia, Mo. THE SERVICE STATION-CAFE chain planned by Farms restaurants is this one already in operation in ^HE Skelly Oil company has begun a chain of combined service stations and restaurants in association with Nickerson & Nickerson, Inc., of Eldon, Mo. Paul A. Tanner, vice-president of marketing for Skelly, whose headquarters are in Kansas City, and I. J. Nickerson, president of the Nickerson Farms restaurant firm, said 70 of the joint facilities are planned along 15,000 miles of the interstate highway system in 17 states. Twenty-one units already are in the building stage, and about half are in operation. The first of three or four planned in the metropolitan Kansas City is to be constructed on 1-70 at Blue Springs. It is expected to be open by October 1. Skelly is one of the largest developers of combination service stations-restaurants on the interstate system in the Middlewest, Tanner said. In addition to a full menu, the Nickerson Farms dining rooms will offer homemade candies, Alewel's hams. Each location is to include a specially designed plastic beehive, where patrons can watch a working colony of bees as they produce honey. The cafes will offer 22 varieties of honey, Nickerson said. All 70 of the units are to have the same design, a red- roofed old English style building 35 by 135 feet. Seating for 110 is planned in each unit. Architect for the chain is William S. Loth & Associates of Kansas City." ~ (an associate was Gordon Heffley, who with wife Mary were then residing at 3800 west 61st terrace, Fairway, Johnson county, Kansas with several children.)
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I met Bill following his June 1967 Kansas divorce by his first wife Beverly Dare Reese Loth, where exposed was "all of the dirty laundry", ~ then we became best of friends and knew him during his last few years of an extraordinary life (he never met a stranger). On his watch fob he had a gold medal, with the Star of David one side, Saint Christopher on other, said, he was covering all bases. He even once offered to give me his house which the court forced him to furnish his wife, if I would just marry her, which I didn't. They had three daughters, two of whom were twins and married, quiet "Val" and vivacious "Vicki", who also choose to not stay with their mother, however the court ordered the underaged son, William S, to be with his mother, Beverly.
One of the tales he told of his younger days was, he and young Tommy Pendergast were buddies, who once "borrowed an un-occupied police car" to joyride in, ~ ~ who would do anything against Boss Pendergast's son in those days? Bill, later had been an Army officer, within the Corps of Engineers, during and in the Battle of the Bulge and told me his commander disliked him, so once sent him as the point of a recon mission, checking for Germans, which he found entrenched on both hillsides of the roadway, so his commander wanted to drive down to see for himself, Bill warned that his Staff Car would draw enemy fire, which it did, so they both went into a barn where Bill got behind a cow, then his commander gave him a direct order to get out so he could hide there, but Bill didn't, even under the threat of a Court Marshall. After the European War was won, his commander had special orders cut to ship Bill to the Pacific War instead of home for a discharge like he should have, based upon the number of service points Bill earned in Europe. He was however diverted to Fort Leavenworth Kansas from his voyage to the Pacific Theater, where they would NOT discharge him, so Bill enjoyed the surroundings of the Officer's Club till they decided to release him from the Army. Bill gave me a small stainless steel keepsake box he took from a dead German officer along with his Luger. After Bill's death, Elizabeth had me dispose of the German Luger taken from that dead German officer, plus a couple other guns he had.
We spent most every Saturday together, sometimes with his only brother-in-law, Henry Philip Huff (1908-1973), only true genius I ever knew, visiting, the then only Meyer's Jewelry store, downtown, where his childhood friend Fran Barnett worked, her father, a Jeweler with offices about 6th floor near Woolf Bros Clothing store, whom we would also visit with), going through their junk gold, and to coin shops and some pawn shops. He and I once journeyed to San Juan, Puerto Rico for awhile, were to stay in my brother's condo, but we learned at an evening dinner with his family, that his 'restrictions' were more than we wanted, ~ so we stayed at the then, American Hotel on the beach. We flew over to Saint Thomas where we spent a night aboard his friends yacht, whose beautiful and charming lady friend had been a Nazi pilot in WW II.
Because of Bill's connection with the Mission State Bank officers, we once had 'the run of the bank' during its closed evening hours when setting up our American and Foreign gold coin collections in glass top locked cases as a display for the enlightenment of & enjoyment by, its bank customers. ~ ~ Then during the coin crisis of the mid & late 1960s, Bill would buy bags of silver coins at a slight premium, from varies sources he knew of around the Kansas City metropolitan area for the bank's supply, of which the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank was unable to keep up with, in order to provide coins for their business customers, ~ ~ however. We being coin collectors, would first search for collectible dates finding many, before turning the rest over to the bank, until the U S Mints could keep up with the demand, in so far as silver coins became a premium crop, selling for over face value. This continued for several months, with us spending our evening hours in Bill's basement office searching. ~ ~ During this same period, unbeknownst to me, my father was involved with a group in Carthage, Missouri who through a local bank over a period of time had drained all bags, several at a time, of 1878 to 1934 Silver Dollars from the Kansas City Federal Reserve Banking system, likewise, searching for collectible dates finding all with but two or three exceptions, of all dates of each year & from each mint, selling the collectible dates, returning others to the bank.
Following his heart attack in Kansas City, we parked at Plaza's nearly thirty year old, Winstead's Drive-Inn, and would walk (the 1st time I got a very large blister on one foot, that burst) from the Country Club Plaza along Brookside boulevard to Brookside Plaza at 63rd street where he once had his office, having a coke at Katz drug store, then back. They called me from Saint Croix of the Virgin Islands when they ran off and got married, also later, called regularly when in Geneva Switzerland.
Once with second wife on their way to the then new resort area of Cancun they stopped in Mexico City where Bill found two Patek Philippe watches, which he proudly showed me, that he bought for just fifty bucks each to add to his watch collection. His as of 3 JUN 1867, son-in-law, Greg Steven Holden, and he would often argue which was best, Patek Philippe or Rolex. He also had traded for a gold Rolex at a pawn shop west of Main on 12th street's south side, where I ended up with his stainless steel Rolex for fifty bucks, which he had traded for the gold one (I sold it twenty some years later in Naples, Florida for $200).
I also visited he and Elizabeth when they were in Scottsdale, Arizona where we bought our gold bolo ties at Andrew of Scottsdale, which he said had $35 gold in them, mine 18k his 14K, also had two sets of French cuff links made from my small gold coins, also where she bought her Rolls Royce when the rental company took their rented one from them. Then later in 1970 visited them in Bal Harbour, Florida, but stayed south across the street from their hotel, at a place in Surfside, Florida, walking the beach each morning while the crews were busy burying the nights build-up of sea-weeds. We would often eat at one of Xavier Cugat's ex-wife's, Abby Lane's wonderful restaurant, serving nothing fancy, just good common food, located about three blocks from the beach, operated by her parents, (still there some twenty years later, but NOT serving as good food).
His youngest daughter, "Vi", had a black child and oldest, "Val", had a white one, so Bill squired them, all dolled up, one on each arm, around during the Easter Parade at the Country Club Plaza, telling me, he had his "Salt and Pepper" grandchildren on his arm. We also often laid around the swim pool at The Kansas City Carriage Club, formerly Mission Hills Country Club, where he once let me drive their Rolls Royce she bought in Scottsdale when the time on their rented Rolls expired. Bill's last Architectural office was in the basement of the then Mission State Bank building at Nall avenue and Johnson drive, Mission, Kansas.
Bill called me the night he died to tell me goodbye, however, I did not attend his funeral but his daughter, "Vickie", called me afterwards and said that "we both knew" he was in a tree laughing down at the burial of his remains. His wife gave me his white alligator shoes and two gold bolos made by Andrew of Scottsdale, and asked me to get his pistols un-registered so she could dispose of them, Elizabeth then died but a couple months later, surviving was a daughter, Betty, whom I once dated, with two daughters then moving to San Francisco, California area, inviting me to continue use of the Carriage Club, which I didn't.
Death: at Saint Joseph Hospital in Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
~ OBITUARY:
Kansas City Star
William S Loth of 4720 Roanoke Parkway , an architect here 58 years, died Sunday at Saint Joseph Hospital.
Mr. Loth, a lifelong Kansas City resident and an Army veteran of World War II was a
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member of the American Registered Architects and the American Institute of Architects. He was a member of the Carriage Club.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth H Loth of the home, a son, William S Loth, Jr., 7930 Nall, Overland Park; three daughters, Mrs. Greg Holden, 8800 W 102nd and Mrs. Kenneth Diggs, 9001 Reeder, both Overland Park, and Vivian Loth, 4303 Pearl, Kansas City, Kansas, and a sister Mrs. Henry P Huff, 809 Huntington Road. Private graveside services at 2 p.m. today at Mount Moriah Cemetery. The family requests no flowers.
Father: Victor Hugo Loth b: 16 DEC 1868 Saint Louis City, Missouri.
Mother: Lillian Pauline Schrage b: 7 JAN 1883 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Marriage 1: Beverly Dare Reese b: 17 JUL 1922 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Married: 27 JUL 1943 Camp Rucker, Alabama.
Known Children
A big thank you to Sea Sand, a teenage friend, for the message of 17 MAY 2014, straightening me out on birth of the daughters. ~ ~ A part of the 2nd message of the 19th, to wit: I wish I knew where the twins were. As I said, Vi passed away a few years ago from lung cancer - so sad. I don't believe she ever married. Vicki and Greg divorced. Not sure about Val and Ken Diggs. Val was always the comedian and likened herself to Carol Burnett - who she met once. I will never forget Vicki's eyes - one brown and one blue. They went to Shawnee Mission West high school and I went to Shawnee Mission East. The twins were as different as day and night. Vicki was the beauty and Val was the outgoing one. Another memory I have is when their dad had a Princess Phone put in their bedroom. Not an extension. They had their own line and number. I envied them so much. We spend a lot of time on that phone. Val loved to call boys she was interested in. Sometimes she would have me call them for her and ask if they liked her. Super embarrassing!
Valerie "Val" Dorothy and Victoria "Vicki" Diane who were un-identical twins b: 1946 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Vivian "Vi" Dare Loth b: 4 JUL 1950 or 48 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
William S Loth, Jr b: 5 JUN 1952 Johnson county, Kansas.
Marriage 2: Mrs Elizabeth Heryer Delaney b: 19 NOV 1903 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Married: 1968 Saint Croix, U S Virgin Island.
No issues.
~ ~ following was originally entered on the page:
Married Beverly Dare Reese, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Woodson, on July 27, 1943.
Lieut. William Loth was stationed at Camp Rucker, Ala.
(info source; Kansas City Star Newspaper August 8, 1943;
provided by Ann Salisbury, contributor 47359592)
~ Transferred 10 NOV 2013 then prepared in most part by Bill Boggess.
Note: The dates on the grave marker & the MO death record do not match. Add'l sources indicate that Bill was indeed born in 1913. Thanks to Randal Loy 5 July 2023 for the clarification.
H/o 1st Beverly Dare Reese, 2nd Mrs Elizabeth Heryer Delaney
Birth: 2nd of two known children in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Bill descended from a very famous Jewish family, going back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where one of them was personal physician to Franz Joseph (whose small bronze statue mounted on his horse, was given me by Bill's 2nd wife), according to his namesake nephew, William Huff June 2014.
Bill was a graduate of the Class of 1930, Southwest High School, Kansas City, Missouri. He became an Architect as had been his namesake maternal grandfather, William Frederick Schrage. Bill, in his earliest years, was with the Architectural firm of Wight & Wight, whose firm profoundly influenced Kansas City's architectural landscape with prominent designs that included the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Jackson County Courthouse, the Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building, and City Hall to name but a few, prior to Bill branching out on his own.
Census: 1920, age 6 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with parents & older sister at 5509 Tracy avenue.
Census: 1930, age 16 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri at widowed maternal grandmother's home with mother & older sister at 809 Huntington road, a student Southwest High School. (father in National Military Home, Leavenworth county, Kansas) Residing at 827 was James M Kemper and his family.
Census: 1940, age 26 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with parents & older sister in former home of maternal grandparents at 809 Huntington road, an Architect.
~ City Directories:
1935, Kansas City, residence 809 Huntington road, an Architect.
1939, Kansas City, residence 809 Huntington road, with Architectural office 6315 Brookside Boulevard, #200.
1940 & '41 Kansas City, residence 809 Huntington road, with Architectural office 7449 Broadway, #201 & 202.
1948 & 1953 Kansas City, Architectural office 404-1/2 west 75th street, # 212 to 214.
1955, Kansas City, residence with 1st wife, 8437 Belleview avenue.
1962 & 1963, Johnson county, Kansas, residence 7930 Nall avenue, Prairie Village, Architectural office (Mission State Bank building), 5437 Johnson drive, Mission.
Following found in 26 JUN 1966 issue, K C Star, to wit:
"A PROTOTYPE OF Skelly Oil and Nickerson Columbia, Mo. THE SERVICE STATION-CAFE chain planned by Farms restaurants is this one already in operation in ^HE Skelly Oil company has begun a chain of combined service stations and restaurants in association with Nickerson & Nickerson, Inc., of Eldon, Mo. Paul A. Tanner, vice-president of marketing for Skelly, whose headquarters are in Kansas City, and I. J. Nickerson, president of the Nickerson Farms restaurant firm, said 70 of the joint facilities are planned along 15,000 miles of the interstate highway system in 17 states. Twenty-one units already are in the building stage, and about half are in operation. The first of three or four planned in the metropolitan Kansas City is to be constructed on 1-70 at Blue Springs. It is expected to be open by October 1. Skelly is one of the largest developers of combination service stations-restaurants on the interstate system in the Middlewest, Tanner said. In addition to a full menu, the Nickerson Farms dining rooms will offer homemade candies, Alewel's hams. Each location is to include a specially designed plastic beehive, where patrons can watch a working colony of bees as they produce honey. The cafes will offer 22 varieties of honey, Nickerson said. All 70 of the units are to have the same design, a red- roofed old English style building 35 by 135 feet. Seating for 110 is planned in each unit. Architect for the chain is William S. Loth & Associates of Kansas City." ~ (an associate was Gordon Heffley, who with wife Mary were then residing at 3800 west 61st terrace, Fairway, Johnson county, Kansas with several children.)
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I met Bill following his June 1967 Kansas divorce by his first wife Beverly Dare Reese Loth, where exposed was "all of the dirty laundry", ~ then we became best of friends and knew him during his last few years of an extraordinary life (he never met a stranger). On his watch fob he had a gold medal, with the Star of David one side, Saint Christopher on other, said, he was covering all bases. He even once offered to give me his house which the court forced him to furnish his wife, if I would just marry her, which I didn't. They had three daughters, two of whom were twins and married, quiet "Val" and vivacious "Vicki", who also choose to not stay with their mother, however the court ordered the underaged son, William S, to be with his mother, Beverly.
One of the tales he told of his younger days was, he and young Tommy Pendergast were buddies, who once "borrowed an un-occupied police car" to joyride in, ~ ~ who would do anything against Boss Pendergast's son in those days? Bill, later had been an Army officer, within the Corps of Engineers, during and in the Battle of the Bulge and told me his commander disliked him, so once sent him as the point of a recon mission, checking for Germans, which he found entrenched on both hillsides of the roadway, so his commander wanted to drive down to see for himself, Bill warned that his Staff Car would draw enemy fire, which it did, so they both went into a barn where Bill got behind a cow, then his commander gave him a direct order to get out so he could hide there, but Bill didn't, even under the threat of a Court Marshall. After the European War was won, his commander had special orders cut to ship Bill to the Pacific War instead of home for a discharge like he should have, based upon the number of service points Bill earned in Europe. He was however diverted to Fort Leavenworth Kansas from his voyage to the Pacific Theater, where they would NOT discharge him, so Bill enjoyed the surroundings of the Officer's Club till they decided to release him from the Army. Bill gave me a small stainless steel keepsake box he took from a dead German officer along with his Luger. After Bill's death, Elizabeth had me dispose of the German Luger taken from that dead German officer, plus a couple other guns he had.
We spent most every Saturday together, sometimes with his only brother-in-law, Henry Philip Huff (1908-1973), only true genius I ever knew, visiting, the then only Meyer's Jewelry store, downtown, where his childhood friend Fran Barnett worked, her father, a Jeweler with offices about 6th floor near Woolf Bros Clothing store, whom we would also visit with), going through their junk gold, and to coin shops and some pawn shops. He and I once journeyed to San Juan, Puerto Rico for awhile, were to stay in my brother's condo, but we learned at an evening dinner with his family, that his 'restrictions' were more than we wanted, ~ so we stayed at the then, American Hotel on the beach. We flew over to Saint Thomas where we spent a night aboard his friends yacht, whose beautiful and charming lady friend had been a Nazi pilot in WW II.
Because of Bill's connection with the Mission State Bank officers, we once had 'the run of the bank' during its closed evening hours when setting up our American and Foreign gold coin collections in glass top locked cases as a display for the enlightenment of & enjoyment by, its bank customers. ~ ~ Then during the coin crisis of the mid & late 1960s, Bill would buy bags of silver coins at a slight premium, from varies sources he knew of around the Kansas City metropolitan area for the bank's supply, of which the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank was unable to keep up with, in order to provide coins for their business customers, ~ ~ however. We being coin collectors, would first search for collectible dates finding many, before turning the rest over to the bank, until the U S Mints could keep up with the demand, in so far as silver coins became a premium crop, selling for over face value. This continued for several months, with us spending our evening hours in Bill's basement office searching. ~ ~ During this same period, unbeknownst to me, my father was involved with a group in Carthage, Missouri who through a local bank over a period of time had drained all bags, several at a time, of 1878 to 1934 Silver Dollars from the Kansas City Federal Reserve Banking system, likewise, searching for collectible dates finding all with but two or three exceptions, of all dates of each year & from each mint, selling the collectible dates, returning others to the bank.
Following his heart attack in Kansas City, we parked at Plaza's nearly thirty year old, Winstead's Drive-Inn, and would walk (the 1st time I got a very large blister on one foot, that burst) from the Country Club Plaza along Brookside boulevard to Brookside Plaza at 63rd street where he once had his office, having a coke at Katz drug store, then back. They called me from Saint Croix of the Virgin Islands when they ran off and got married, also later, called regularly when in Geneva Switzerland.
Once with second wife on their way to the then new resort area of Cancun they stopped in Mexico City where Bill found two Patek Philippe watches, which he proudly showed me, that he bought for just fifty bucks each to add to his watch collection. His as of 3 JUN 1867, son-in-law, Greg Steven Holden, and he would often argue which was best, Patek Philippe or Rolex. He also had traded for a gold Rolex at a pawn shop west of Main on 12th street's south side, where I ended up with his stainless steel Rolex for fifty bucks, which he had traded for the gold one (I sold it twenty some years later in Naples, Florida for $200).
I also visited he and Elizabeth when they were in Scottsdale, Arizona where we bought our gold bolo ties at Andrew of Scottsdale, which he said had $35 gold in them, mine 18k his 14K, also had two sets of French cuff links made from my small gold coins, also where she bought her Rolls Royce when the rental company took their rented one from them. Then later in 1970 visited them in Bal Harbour, Florida, but stayed south across the street from their hotel, at a place in Surfside, Florida, walking the beach each morning while the crews were busy burying the nights build-up of sea-weeds. We would often eat at one of Xavier Cugat's ex-wife's, Abby Lane's wonderful restaurant, serving nothing fancy, just good common food, located about three blocks from the beach, operated by her parents, (still there some twenty years later, but NOT serving as good food).
His youngest daughter, "Vi", had a black child and oldest, "Val", had a white one, so Bill squired them, all dolled up, one on each arm, around during the Easter Parade at the Country Club Plaza, telling me, he had his "Salt and Pepper" grandchildren on his arm. We also often laid around the swim pool at The Kansas City Carriage Club, formerly Mission Hills Country Club, where he once let me drive their Rolls Royce she bought in Scottsdale when the time on their rented Rolls expired. Bill's last Architectural office was in the basement of the then Mission State Bank building at Nall avenue and Johnson drive, Mission, Kansas.
Bill called me the night he died to tell me goodbye, however, I did not attend his funeral but his daughter, "Vickie", called me afterwards and said that "we both knew" he was in a tree laughing down at the burial of his remains. His wife gave me his white alligator shoes and two gold bolos made by Andrew of Scottsdale, and asked me to get his pistols un-registered so she could dispose of them, Elizabeth then died but a couple months later, surviving was a daughter, Betty, whom I once dated, with two daughters then moving to San Francisco, California area, inviting me to continue use of the Carriage Club, which I didn't.
Death: at Saint Joseph Hospital in Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
~ OBITUARY:
Kansas City Star
William S Loth of 4720 Roanoke Parkway , an architect here 58 years, died Sunday at Saint Joseph Hospital.
Mr. Loth, a lifelong Kansas City resident and an Army veteran of World War II was a
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member of the American Registered Architects and the American Institute of Architects. He was a member of the Carriage Club.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth H Loth of the home, a son, William S Loth, Jr., 7930 Nall, Overland Park; three daughters, Mrs. Greg Holden, 8800 W 102nd and Mrs. Kenneth Diggs, 9001 Reeder, both Overland Park, and Vivian Loth, 4303 Pearl, Kansas City, Kansas, and a sister Mrs. Henry P Huff, 809 Huntington Road. Private graveside services at 2 p.m. today at Mount Moriah Cemetery. The family requests no flowers.
Father: Victor Hugo Loth b: 16 DEC 1868 Saint Louis City, Missouri.
Mother: Lillian Pauline Schrage b: 7 JAN 1883 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Marriage 1: Beverly Dare Reese b: 17 JUL 1922 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Married: 27 JUL 1943 Camp Rucker, Alabama.
Known Children
A big thank you to Sea Sand, a teenage friend, for the message of 17 MAY 2014, straightening me out on birth of the daughters. ~ ~ A part of the 2nd message of the 19th, to wit: I wish I knew where the twins were. As I said, Vi passed away a few years ago from lung cancer - so sad. I don't believe she ever married. Vicki and Greg divorced. Not sure about Val and Ken Diggs. Val was always the comedian and likened herself to Carol Burnett - who she met once. I will never forget Vicki's eyes - one brown and one blue. They went to Shawnee Mission West high school and I went to Shawnee Mission East. The twins were as different as day and night. Vicki was the beauty and Val was the outgoing one. Another memory I have is when their dad had a Princess Phone put in their bedroom. Not an extension. They had their own line and number. I envied them so much. We spend a lot of time on that phone. Val loved to call boys she was interested in. Sometimes she would have me call them for her and ask if they liked her. Super embarrassing!
Valerie "Val" Dorothy and Victoria "Vicki" Diane who were un-identical twins b: 1946 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Vivian "Vi" Dare Loth b: 4 JUL 1950 or 48 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
William S Loth, Jr b: 5 JUN 1952 Johnson county, Kansas.
Marriage 2: Mrs Elizabeth Heryer Delaney b: 19 NOV 1903 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Married: 1968 Saint Croix, U S Virgin Island.
No issues.
~ ~ following was originally entered on the page:
Married Beverly Dare Reese, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Woodson, on July 27, 1943.
Lieut. William Loth was stationed at Camp Rucker, Ala.
(info source; Kansas City Star Newspaper August 8, 1943;
provided by Ann Salisbury, contributor 47359592)
~ Transferred 10 NOV 2013 then prepared in most part by Bill Boggess.
Note: The dates on the grave marker & the MO death record do not match. Add'l sources indicate that Bill was indeed born in 1913. Thanks to Randal Loy 5 July 2023 for the clarification.
