Jimmy Robert Wiltfong

Jimmy "Stub" Robert Wiltfong

Born in May 5, 1942 Bisbee Arizona

Died January 8, 2026 Kansas City, KS 

Age of 83

Born to Robert Eli Wiltfong and Mary Louise (Morton) Wiltfong.

Jimmy worked in the printing field since he was a teenager. He was a pressman and worked for the Parsons Sun newspaper, moved to Kansas City KS and worked for Sharp Color Press, later Sharp Graphics, in Kansas City, MO. until his retirement.

He had a love of Horses, Airedale Terriers, Pigeons, and Celine Dion.

He grew up in the area of Oak Valley and Longton Kansas roaming the countryside and playing in the Oak Valley Cemetery with is siblings and cousins. He often spoke of those times and they were some of his best memories.

After the death of his first wife, Serena Ann Birge Wiltfong, Jimmy moved, with his daughter Shanna, to Parsons, KS. There he met Linda . They were Married December 17, 1966. They soon made their way to Kansas City, KS and later to Tonganoxie, KS where Linda passed away in 2017.

He loved the country life and his horses. He tried his hand at breeding Airedale Terriers, which he enjoyed and was proud of. Through the years in Tonganoxie on "the farm", as we called it, there were horses, cows, pigs, goats, chickens, peacocks, pigeons, dogs and cats. Many years of good memories on the farm.

After Linda passed away, Jimmy went back to Longton to find some comfort and a happy place. He soon realized that the Longton of today is not the same as when he was a kid. After 4 years he moved to Bernice, OK with his brother David for a short time and then on to Kansas City, KS.

Dementia was slowly taking his mental and physical health. He also suffered from REM sleep disorder that caused him to act out his dreams whether they were good or bad, and COPD. He was admitted to the hospital on Monday December 22, 2025. After two weeks of treatment for pneumonia and infection, the choice was made to put him on comfort care on Monday January 3, 2025. He passed away peacefully on January 8, 2026.

No more bad dreams, hallucinations, weakness and depression, Jimmy is finally able to rest peacefully.

He was loved and adored by those who knew him and will be missed.

Jimmy was preceded in death by his first wife Serena Ann Birge Wiltfong (1966) (Mendota California) (a daughter, Shanna Marie was born from this union in 1963); his father, Robert Eli Wiltfong (2002); his mother, Mary Louise Morton Wiltfong (1981); his sister, Violet Kay Carson (2015); his second wife, Linda Kay Nixon Wiltfong (2017); (a son, Robert William Wiltfong was born from this union in 1968).

He is survived by daughter, Shanna Marie Cavasos,Kansas City KS, & Her husband, Frank Cavasos; son, Robert William Wiltfong, Kansas City, KS; grandson, Robert Lee Wiltfong, Tonganoxie KS; brother, David Wiltfong (Bernice Oklahoma); sister, Patsy Newland (Clovis California); pet cat, Minnie; 6 remaining 1st cousins; and several other family members and blended family members.

He will be cremated and his cremains will be interred at a later date.