Ellen Jane (Anderson) Dougherty
1933—2024
Ellen Jane (Anderson) Dougherty was a strong, witty, loving, kind, patient, gracious soul. She had a wonderful dry sense of humor and an exceptional ear. One of her greatest joys was conversation with loved ones. Her struggle later in life with Parkinsonisms was in the trouble it caused her with accessing words—speaking and communicating. She spoke of the frustration with her condition saying, “It gets me where I live”.
She was loved by many and will be greatly missed by all who knew her.
She was born third of nine children on the family farm in Linn County; Bucklin, Missouri to Thelma Alta (Cannon) Anderson and Morton Albert Anderson. She graduated from Bucklin HS in 1951, attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, and the Kansas City Art Institute from 1954 to 1956 where she met Leck Dougherty in a drawing class. The two were married in 1955 and raised five boys in Kansas City.
She was an artist at Hallmark Cards early in her career and worked later on as a teacher’s assistant in high school art and special education classes.
She and Leck were members at McMurry Methodist Church in Claycomo.
She was preceded in death by her parents, by husband Leck, sisters Martha Lee Anderson and Billie Joanne Andrews, and by brothers Morton Edward (Jack) Anderson, David Preston Anderson, and Robert Leonard Anderson.
She is survived by sisters Rosemary Taylor and Susan Estella Lane, brother John Cannon Anderson, and sons Leck Aaron Dougherty, Edward Alan Dougherty, Andrew Glen Dougherty, Lane Martin Dougherty, and Patrick Lynn Dougherty. And by more grandchildren than anyone can count.
She was loved by many and will be greatly missed by all who knew her.
She was born third of nine children on the family farm in Linn County; Bucklin, Missouri to Thelma Alta (Cannon) Anderson and Morton Albert Anderson. She graduated from Bucklin HS in 1951, attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, and the Kansas City Art Institute from 1954 to 1956 where she met Leck Dougherty in a drawing class. The two were married in 1955 and raised five boys in Kansas City.
She was an artist at Hallmark Cards early in her career and worked later on as a teacher’s assistant in high school art and special education classes.
She and Leck were members at McMurry Methodist Church in Claycomo.
She was preceded in death by her parents, by husband Leck, sisters Martha Lee Anderson and Billie Joanne Andrews, and by brothers Morton Edward (Jack) Anderson, David Preston Anderson, and Robert Leonard Anderson.
She is survived by sisters Rosemary Taylor and Susan Estella Lane, brother John Cannon Anderson, and sons Leck Aaron Dougherty, Edward Alan Dougherty, Andrew Glen Dougherty, Lane Martin Dougherty, and Patrick Lynn Dougherty. And by more grandchildren than anyone can count.
Leck Yan Dougherty
1931—2023
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