Mary Lucile Imm

Mary Lucile Imm (née Doll) passed away Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, at University of Kansas Medical Center after a long battle with liver cancer.

She was born Sept. 17, 1945, in San Angelo, Texas. She attended Miege High School and Creighton University, where she met her future husband, Dr. Rudy Imm. Upon finishing dental school, they settled in Lenox, where he opened his dental practice and she taught high school. After his death in 2007, and her subsequent cancer diagnosis, she relocated to Shawnee Mission, Kansas.

She was a member of Church of the Holy Cross where she was active in the religious education program.

The family would like to thank the excellent surgeons, physicians and nursing staff of KUMC who supported her on her four year journey, and MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Mary Lu was preceded in death by her husband of 40 years, Dr. Rudy Imm, and her nieces, Lydia True and Clare True.

The lights of her life were her grandchildren, and she cherished her time with them and her children.

She is survived by her son, Chris Imm and his wife, Melissa, and their children, Annalise, Greyson and Leah; her daughter, Shannon Imm and her son, Alex; her son, Andy; her brother, Dixon Doll and his wife, Carol, of San Francisco, California; her sister, Jane True and her husband, Jim, of Kansas City, Missouri; her sister, Judy Gilman and her husband, Joe, of Lawrence, Kansas; her nieces, Carol Hilbert and Victoria Fansler; her nephews, D.R. Doll, Alex Doll, Andy Doll, Billy Beeson, Toby True and Tyler True; her brother-in-law, Nick and his wife, Gayle and their children, Nikki and Adelle.

Memorial services include a visitation from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at McGilley and Hoge Funeral Home, 8024 Santa Fe Drive, Overland Park, Kansas 66204. Mass of the Resurrection will be said 11 a.m. Saturday, March 3, at Church of the Holy Cross, 8311 W. 93rd St., Overland Park, Kansas 66212.

The family suggests memorials in her name to Overland Park Arboretum with checks payable to Friends of the Arboretum and sent to 4501 W. 69th St., Prairie Village, Kansas 66208. Online condolences may be left at www.mcgilleyhoge.com.