Robert M. Slegman

Robert Morris Slegman, 93, of Mission Hills, KS, passed away at St.Joseph Medical Center on Tuesday, December 23. Funeral services will be at 2:30pm Friday, December 26, at New Reform Temple, 7100 Main Street with a burial following the service at Rose Hill Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made to New Reform Temple, Heifer International, 1 World Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 or Synergy Services, 400 East Sixth Street, Parkville, Missouri 64152. Bob was born in Binghamton, New York, on January 15, 1915, the son of Hulda and Saul Slegman. He moved
to Kansas City as a child, attended Southwest High School and graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1935. Bob then started working in the garment business on Seventh Avenue in New York. He returned to Kansas City to run the family business, Stern-Slegman-Prins, which manufactured and distributed women’s coats and suits nationally under the Betty Rose label. During World War II, Bob was a weather forecaster for the Air Force from 1942-46 and continued to be interested in meteorology throughout his life. After the war, he came back to Kansas City and married Betty Harvey, who was from New York and a writer for United Press. Bob retired from Stern-Slegman-Prins and pursued his love for fox hunting and golf. He was on the board of Menorah Hospital
and was a member of the Mission Valley Hunt Club, Oakwood Country Club and the Yacht Club in Palm Beach. Bob had a twinkle in his eye, an infectious laugh, a photographic memory, and a knack for telling a good story. He did crossword puzzles in ink and enjoyed a few good cocktails. Bob is survived by his wife, Betty Slegman; three children, John Slegman and his wife, Holly, Kansas City; Dorothy Slegman and her husband, Jim Brewer, and their children Sam, Casey and Bronwyn, St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Ann Slegman Isenberg and her husband, Tom Isenberg, and their children,
Kate and David, Kansas City.