Updated Obituary - Jimmie Dale Mitchell

Jimmie Dale Mitchell

Jimmie Dale Mitchell, 71, Weslaco, Texas, formerly of Harrisonville, Missouri, died Saturday, December 17, 2016 at Gentiva Hospice House in San Antonio, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, December 23, 2016 at the Atkinson Funeral Home in Harrisonville with burial in Orient Cemetery, Harrisonville. Friends may call from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Thursday, December 22, at the Atkinson Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Harrisonville American Legion.

Jim was born July 24, 1945 in East Prairie, Missouri, the son of John and Mary (Whitlock) Mitchell. He was a 1963 graduate of East Prairie High School. He married Linda Lee on August 14, 1965 in East Prairie, Missouri. He was a U.S. Army veteran.

Jim had attended Keegan Technical School in Memphis, Tennessee. They moved to Clinton in 1964 where he was a radio announcer for KDKD Radio, and in 1976, they moved to Harrisonville where Jim was the radio announcer for the Harrisonville radio station, KIEE from 1976-1979. He was a full time dispatcher for the Harrisonville Police Department for eight years. He was also on the Harrisonville volunteer fire department and was an EMT. He retired from Unity Village in 2007 as a security dispatcher. Jim and Linda moved to Weslaco, Texas in 2015.

Jim was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, one sister, and one daughter, Pamela Vandervort. He is survived by his wife, Linda of the home; one daughter, Pat Isbell (Tom), Duluth, Minnesota; one brother, Everett Mitchell (Nancy), Mountain Grove, Missouri; 3 grandchildren, Kayla Vandervort, Kelsey Youngblood, and Dustin Vandervort.