Lilian Kranitz Obituary (1923

Lilian Kranitz of Overland Park, KS died December 13, 2007. She was born November 13, 1923 in St. Joseph, MO and lived her entire adult life in Kansas City, MO. Funeral services will be 1:30pm, Sunday December 16 at The Louis Memorial Chapel, 6830 Troost Ave. Burial will follow at Mt. Carmel Cemetery. Ms. Kranitz was a member of Congregation Beth Shalom and a life-long member of Hadassah. Ms. Kranitz sang in the Beth Shalom choir and was known for her beautiful soprano voice. She received the B.A. in oral history from Park College and the M.A. in Judaic Studies from UMKC. Ms. Kranitz was the oral historian for Mid-America’s Promise, the history of the K.C. Jewish community. The tapes of her interviews are deposited in the Kansas City Jewish Archives. She was also the author of Twelve Who Survived: An Oral History of the Jews of Lodz, Poland, 1930-1954 and A Handbook on tape recording Jewish roots: Guidelines for family and community history. Ms. Kranitz is the daughter of the late Ethel and Meyer Kranitz. She is survived by her children: Marilyn Sanders and Peter Adomeit of Hartford, CT; Shelly and Michael Nemeth of Overland Park, KS; Paula Sanders and Michael Maas of Houston, TX; Marvin and Vicki Sanders of Belmont, CA; Michael J. Heymann of Portland, OR; eight grandchildren; brother and sister-in-law Mitchell and Janet Kranitz of Overland Park, KS; aunt and uncle Lillian and Sam Pollock of Jerusalem, Israel. The family suggests contributions to Hadassah or the Rose S. Levine and Doris L. Flam Arts and Education Fund at Congregation Beth Shalom. An online guestbook is available at www.loiusmemorialchapel.com. (Arr. The Louis Memori-al Chapel, 816-361-5211.)