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Car Dealer Was Area Fixture
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Local car dealer R. Lloyd Ketcham died March 8, 2008, at the age of 97. He opened his own car dealership in Liberty, Missouri, in 1950. Ketcham Oldsmobile then moved to Independence in 1958. It still remains today as Broome Oldsmobile. The Ketchams were also philanthropists giving money to various educational institutions including the University of Missouri at Columbia. Includes his picture and that of his wife.
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2008-03-27
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Newspaper Article
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A Colorful Career Comes To a Close
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Prominent Kansas City sports figure Jerry Green died August 15, 2007, at the age of 77. He was "a flamboyant Kansas City businessman who owned banks and radio stations and tried to buy the Kansas City Royals in 1997." His career started by running his father's car dealership, Union Chevrolet. "His mother, Selma Green, later Selma Green Feld, was a well-known philanthropist who endowed the Carolyn Benton Cockefair Chair for Continuing Education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City." Green owned sports talk radio station WHB, auto dealerships Jerry Green Union Chevrolet and Broadway Ford, Indian Springs State Bank, and other banks which eventually became Union Bank, as well as a collection of sports cars. "Green once told a reporter that he was of establishment background but not an establishment person." Includes his picture.
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2007-08-16
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Newspaper Article
