John Weil Uhlmann

John W. Uhlmann, 64, of Prairie Village, KS, passed away Friday, August 21, 2009. Funeral services will be at 2:00pm Sunday, August 23, at The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah, 12320 Nall, Overland Park, KS. Private family burial. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to The Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City, National Center for Fathering or the Autism Society of Kansas City. John was Chairman of the board of The Uhlmann Company, a family-owned grocery products firm. He was president of Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, The Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City, the Kansas City Art Institute and the Loose Foundation. John was Chairman of the Kansas City
Operation Exodus. He was also Chairman of the Barbecue Industry Association of America.
He served on the boards of United Israel Appeal and United Jewish Communities where he was a member of the Overseas Needs Assessment and Distribution (ONAD) Committee. He was on the national boards of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Toward Tradition, and Voices United for Israel. John was member of the board of UMB Bank and Menorah Hospital. He was a member of the Young Presidents Organization, Center for National Fathering, AIPAC, United Jewish Communities Board and the International Board of UJA and the Oakwood Country Club. John was a member of The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah, the New Reform Temple and was a former member of their boards. He was a Sunday
school teacher at The Temple and tutored math at an inner city Catholic school. He was a Bridge Life Master and was a member of Mensa. John was a graduate of the Pembroke
Country Day School and attended Dartmouth College and Kansas State University where he studied Milling Technology. He was born in Kansas City, MO and was a lifelong area resident. John was a Vietnam veteran of the U.S. Army serving in Special Psychological Operations. John has been actively involved in national politics and national political organizations. He ran for the Republican nomination for the third Congressional District in Kansas in 1984. He was preceded in death by his parents, R. Hugh Uhlmann and Helen Jane Weil Uhlmann and a sister and brother-in-law, Patricia and Marvin Rich. John is survived by his wife of 37 years, Patricia Uhlmann, of the home; daughters and
sons-in-law: Katherine and Dennis Aikman and their children, Jennifer and Taylor, all of Marblehead, MA; Meg and Justin Shaw and their children, Joshua, Madeline and Adam, all of Leawood, KS; brother and sister-in-law: Robert and Sally Uhlmann, Bozeman, MT;
mother-in-law: Heloise Werthan Kuhn, Nashville, TN; sister-in-law: Joni P. Werthan, Nashville, TN; uncles: Paul Uhlmann, Jr, Kansas City, MO and Robert S. Weil, Sr., Montgomery, AL; aunt: Jean K. Weil, Montgomery, AL; nieces and nephews: Alison Caponetto, Meredith Angrist, Anya Holmes, Lex and Sam Uhlmann. many cousins also survive.
John was the pillar of his family and his community. He was a man of dignity, loving kindness, courage, wisdom, generosity of spirit and was always there for everyone. He was a true Mensch. We were all blessed to have had him in our lives and he will always be in our hearts. John’s strongest conviction was “What is hateful to you, do not do
unto others.”