Wendell Lee Page

Wendell Lee Page of Raymore, MO was born the fourth child to Albert “Elmer” Page and Florence “Mae” Bilyeu Page on October 18, 1935 in Ozark, MO. After a long battle with Alzhiemers, he reached his heavenly home on December 2, 2021. He was a retired Southern Baptist Pastor and Missionary. He was a graduate of Southwest Baptist College in Bolivar, MO (now SBU), Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, MO (now Missouri State), and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forrest, NC. He held an honorary doctorate of divinity from Southwest Baptist University.

On September 1, 1957, he married Margaret Katherine Andrews in Springfield, MO.

He pastored 19 years at First Baptist Church Lee’s Summit, MO where he retired in 2000. He also pastored First Baptist Church West Plains, MO and First Baptist Park Hill, MO. Throughout his life, he also pastored small churches in OK, MO, and NC. In 1964, he was commissioned to the mission field by the Southern Baptist Convention. He and his family went to France to learn the language and then to the Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe in the French West Indies to serve as missionaries.

In retirement, he was interim pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Overland Park, KS and First Baptist Church in Grandview, MO.

Throughout his years he served as President of the Missouri Baptist Convention, as a Trustee of Southwest Baptist University for 14 years, Chairman for the Executive Director Search Committee, Blue River/Kansas City Association, on the Nominating Committee of the Missouri Baptist Convention, and two terms on the executive board of the same convention. He was President and a long time member of the Lee’s Summit Rotary Club.

He is preceded in death by his parents and his siblings, Ruth Moore, Arthur Page, Anna Jane Stockton and Leon Page.

He is survived by his wife, Margaret, his three children: Steve and his wife, Karen of Olathe, KS, Doug and his wife, Elizabeth of Springfield, MO, Pam Wolfe and her husband Bob of Overland Park, KS, six grandchildren, Christa Castro and her husband Andy of Kansas City, MO , Tyler Page and his wife Brittney of Muldrow, OK, Michael Page of Springfield, MO, Nicole Page of Olathe, KS, Jordan Wolfe of Overland Park, KS, and Natalie Wolfe of Kansas City, MO eight great grandchildren, Ella Webster, Clay Page, Josiah Castro, Timothy Castro, Katie Grace Murphy, Beau Murphy, Audrey Castro, and Judah Castro.