Funeral home issues heartbreaking plea after 'kind' woman, 99, dies with no family or friends

A ceremonial location is desperately looking for a 'kind' 99-year-old woman's family and friends to observe her life aft she passed away. 

Katherine Shirley, 99, sadly died successful May successful Kansas City without immoderate friends and family astir to observe her agelong life and springiness her a due goodbye. 

For 30 years, Shirley lived astatine Life Care Center of Grandview, a nursing home.

Without immoderate adjacent of kin, friends, aliases family, Shirley became a ward of nan authorities astatine nan clip of her decease and was group to beryllium cremated. 

But erstwhile nan ceremonial location realized that Shirley had already paid for her ain funeral years before, they decided to grant her wishes - and made a hopeless plea for anyone to travel and mourn nan female astatine her funeral. 

'We couldn’t find anyone that knew her, nary adjacent of kin, nary one, truthful we really want to grant what she wants to do and her legacy,' Aesha Humphrey, who useful astatine nan ceremonial home, told Fox 4 Kansas City. 

That's erstwhile Marcom-Harvey Funeral Care stepped successful and agreed to grant Shirley's wishes. 

'We person been fixed nan opportunity to grant Ms. Shirley's pre-need wishes that she cautiously selected years ago,' nan ceremonial location wrote on Facebook. 

The ceremonial location will accommodate getting nan casket and flowers Shirley pre-selected. 

Despite honoring her wishes to beryllium buried, nan ceremonial location still faces 1 awesome obstacle - uncovering Shirley's family and friends to observe her. 

They've moreover invited nan organization to travel to nan ceremonial arsenic well. 

'We are hopeful successful our hunt for immoderate friends aliases family who whitethorn person known Ms. Shirley to be her homegoing ceremony and besides induce nan organization to travel and support Ms. Shirley, arsenic we judge that everyone deserves a due homegoing,' it wrote. 

The end-of-life business doesn't person overmuch accusation connected Shirley, but they judge she whitethorn person had a boy and knew she worked arsenic a secretary. 

Life Care Center of Grandview remembers Shirley arsenic a kind, female of God, who took attraction of herself. Workers and residents location considered her family, according to Fox 4 Kansas City.