(Dee) Deanna Mae (Snyder) Mahan, 87, of Kansas City, MO, most recently at the New Mark Care Center in Nashua, passed away peacefully on December 29th, 2025 after succumbing to the effects of dementia.
Dee was born to Deane Charles Snyder and Blanche Mae (Wilson) Snyder Pruitt on August 23, 1938.
Dee met Hurley Wayne Mahan while she was attending Lee’s Summit High School and working part time at a local hardware store. Hurley literally bumped into her at the hardware store and soon they were married on June 19,1955. Out of this union came 5 children; Steven Wayne Mahan (Mary), Kathleen Marie Mahan (Ann), Sheila Ann Mahan-Carr (Jon), Hurley Deane Mahan (Theresa), and Mark William Mahan (Brenda).
Dee was very involved in the PTA at Francis Willard Elementary school when her kids were little and before the family moved to the Northland of Kansas City around 1969. She continued to be a stay-at-home mom until Hurley and Mark were in high school and she began to work with her sister Joyce in a local café.
After 26 years of marriage Dee and Hurley divorced in 1981. Dee moved to Minnesota in 1983 and worked as a Legal Assistant for about 10 years, then as an Executive Assistant at Piper Jaffray for another 11 years, retiring in 2001.
In 2002 she became a fulltime RVer with her friend Tom Kjelstrup. They had many travels across the country and into Canada. She always spoke of the beautiful places they stayed at and would stop in Kansas City on their way back and forth to Florida for the winter. In Florida she was known as the party/theater planner with some of her Red Hat RV friends there and they even had a permanent spot reserved for their warm winter stays.
Dee was extremely proud of her 5 children and the lives they each made with their chosen partners. She loved all the grandkids (20) and great-grandkids (17).
Dee was preceded in death by both of her parents; ex-husband: Hurley W. Mahan; sisters: Janet and Joyce; brother: “Butch” Deane; grandson: Luke; daughter: Sheila; son: Mark; and many other family members and friends over the years.
Dee’s legacy lives on in the lives of those she created and touched as wife, mother, sister, cousin, aunt, grandmother and friend…
Inurnment will Take Pl., Friday January 9 at 10 o’clock at the White Chapel cemetery
