12/01/2025
All services for Donald Ross will be held Friday, December 5, 2025, at Meyers Funeral Chapel in Blue Springs, MO. Visitation will be held from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Funeral service will commence at 12:00 p.m. A committal service will follow at 2:00 p.m. at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Higginsville, MO. Donations are welcome at Faith Baptist Church in Raymore or Pleasant Grove Bible Church. Memories of Donald and words of comfort for his family may be shared at meyersfuneralchapel.com
Donald Stewart Ross, 89, a resident of Independence, MO passed away peacefully Thursday, November 27, 2025, at the Parkway Senior Living in Blue Springs, MO. He was born December 3, 1935, to Fred and Dorothy (Stoneking) Ross in Independence, MO and lived his entire life there.
Donald attended Mt. Washington Elementary School, Northeast Junior High School and graduated from Northeast Senior High School in 1954. He attended Kansas City Junior College and then received a bachelor’s degree from William Jewell College in Liberty, MO in 1958 and a master’s degree from UMKC in 1965. Donald taught at Pitcher and Fairview Elementary Schools in the Kansas City School District and then was principal of William Volker and Joseph S. Chick Elementary Schools in Kansas City. He was hired by the Independence School District in 1968 to become the principal of Randall/Wachter Elementary School and later Glendale Elementary Schools.
After retirement in 1994 he served an additional fifteen years, part-time, with the Independence School District Scholarship Foundation. Donald also was an active volunteer at Watkin’s Mill State Park in Clay County, MO, Confederate Memorial State Historic Site in Higginsville, MO and the Frontier Army Museum at Fort Leavenworth, KS.
Donald was a Christian, a member of Faith Baptist Church in Raymore, MO and Pleasant Grove Bible Church in Kansas City, MO. He served his country proudly in the United States Air Force on both active and active-reserve duty from 1958 – 1962.
Donald is survived by a nephew, John Balhuizen of Prairie Village, KS; niece, Laura Pegg of Flower Mount, TX; 5 great-nephews; 1 great-niece. He was preceded in death by his parents; sisters, Betty Pritchett and Ann Ross Balhuizen.
