Connie Sue Gumm

Connie Sue Gumm, 53, passed away on Friday Nov. 20, 2020 at her home in Gladstone, surrounded by family members. She passed away from a courageous battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday Nov. 27, 2020 at the Spickard Christian Church. Burial will be in the Spickard Masonic Cemetery.
A family visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020 at the McGilley Antioch Chapel in Kansas City. Another family visitation will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. on Friday at the church.
Connie was born on Jan. 29, 1967 in Cedar Rapids, IA and was raised by loving parents, Phyllis Fitzpatrick Gumm and Gerald Gumm of Spickard. She lived in Gladstone and went to school in Kansas City, graduating from Oak Park High School in 1985.
Connie was employed at Myron’s Dental Lab when diagnosed and had 25 years in the dental business, also working at KC Denture Clinic and Dawson’s Dental Lab. She also worked at First Student School Bus for the Park Hill School District. Connie enjoyed spending time with family and friends, she loved drawing and making crafts, she loved spending time gardening and had a green thumb. She enjoyed walking in the woods, following the creek and collecting rocks, going to the beach, horseback riding and making homemade ice cream. She also loved bonfires, S’mores and taking pictures.
Connie is survived by a son, Brandon Gumm of Gladstone; aunts and uncles, Dixie Fitzpatrick Brown Yates of Mill Grove, Bonnie and Otto Gumm of Kansas City, George and Virginia Gumm of Maryville and Pat Edgeton of Cedar Rapids, IA; sisters, Kelli Atherton of Odessa, TX, Dina Dotterweich of Monticello, IA, Laura Grant of Alexandria, VA and Addy Sullivan of Cedar Rapids; nephews, Owen, Grant, Quinn Thomas and Will Dotterweich of Monticello, IA; nieces, Alex and Sheldon Stewart of College Station, TX and Randi and Zoe Atherton of Texas; great-niece, Lilly Stewart of College Station; two great-nephews of Texas; her biological mother, Susan Clark of Washington, IA; and her biological father, John Sullivan of Cedar Rapids.
Connie was preceded in death by her parents; aunts and uncles, Irene Fitzpatrick and Jim Wagner, Gordon Brown, Virgil Yates, Audrey and Edgar Brown and Opal and Herb Harrington; grandparents, Lera Coon Fitzpatrick and John Fitzpatrick; and cousin, Linda Lewis.
Memorials are suggested to ALS and may be left at or mailed to the Slater-Neal Funeral Home of Trenton, which is in charge of arrangements.
Online condolences may be left at www.resthavenmort.com