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DA VICTIMS, DAE BE WHITE
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http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/482374.html
Ken Yost, 61
Kirkwood's longtime public works director was quiet and didn't ruffle
easily, friends said. "He was always on top of things. ... I mean
this
was a salt-of-the-earth kind of guy," said Tim Fischesser of the St.
Louis County Municipal League.
Yost was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood, where
his wife, Cathy, is on the staff. They led three Hurricane Katrina
relief missions to Gulf****t and Biloxi, Miss.
Councilman Mike Lynch, 63
Lynch wasn't the shy type, say those who knew him. "Anytime you saw
him, he had a great big smile on his face and had his hand out to
shake yours," Fischesser said. "He was very gregarious."
And he was all about Kirkwood, helping make it more prosperous,
friends say. One of the last things he did was push to get signs
directing people to downtown.
Officer Tom Ballman, 37
Ballman was the Police Department's spokesman and, in many ways, its
face to the community, residents said. He also ran the department's
D.A.R.E. program.
Several people recalled his efforts in organizing the city's
Community
Emergency Response Team. "He was just the nicest guy," said Marlene
Orr, who had been corresponding with Ballman this week about joining
the response team.
Councilwoman Connie Karr, 51
Karr was a media relations specialist and former journalist who was
planning to run for mayor in the April election.
Gwyn Wahlman, a Kirkwood resident who knew Karr from attending
council
meetings, remembered her as someone "you just had to love."
"She was a woman with boundless energy," Wahlman said. "She was very
intelligent -- really sharp and with a wonderful smile."
Sgt. William Biggs, 50
Biggs was remembered by a friend at a prayer service as someone who
went into law enforcement work to try to give a break to people who
didn't have many op****tunities in life.
Biggs, a former cattle rancher in northern Colorado, returned to the
St. Louis suburbs, his boyhood home, with his wife and two sons in
the
late 1980s. Last fall marked his 20th year with the Kirkwood Police
Department.
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