Richard "Dick" Kellenberg

Mr. Richard "Dick" Kellenberg, age 84, of Fairfield Bay, Arkansas died Saturday, December 17, 2011. He was born May 4, 1927 in Greenfield, Iowa, the son of Henry and Anna (Seig) Kellenberg. He attended primary to high school in Greenfield after which he served two years in the United States Navy. Dick subsequently graduated with a bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning from Iowa State University. After graduation he returned to Greenfield where he met and married Bonnie Lou Todd from Palmyra, Missouri. The couple moved to Kansas City where Dick worked at Hare & Hare, a prominent landscape and urban planning consultancy. After 12 years, and achieving a partnership position, he opened his own consulting firm and serviced many Midwest suburban cities and outlying towns for over 40 years. Dick was renowned as the "country doctor of city planning" by helping many small communities establish sound urban planning policies, comprehensive plans and zoning codes. He was presented the American Planning Association Grand Award in 1988 for his contribution to sound urban form and quality town making. Cities in Kansas including Overland Park, Leawood, Prairie Village and Shawnee Mission, as well as, Missouri cities of Liberty and Joplin have been left with the Kellenberg imprint. Caring deeply about the state of the county and state leadership, Dick was nominated to run for Presiding Judge of Platte County. Dick soon shifted his focus on supporting Bonnie's passion for fine food and catering with a headlong leap into the restaurant business. At the young age of 50, he tackled building the first mixed use project in the county with a 14,000 square foot restaurant/residence/office building. After completion he partnered with Bonnie in establishing a regional restaurant destination that seated over 200 persons and was the venue for hundreds of prominent events and weddings. Within 5 years, The Dinnerhorn Country Inn scored a Bon Appetite Top 12 Restaurants in the US for holiday meals. After seven years balancing the restaurant business, politics and an urban planning firm, Dick was finally ready to slow down and moved with Bonnie to Fairfield Bay, Arkansas. Here Dick provided leadership in a number of community initiatives including officially incorporating Fairfield Bay into a city, leading the new city's planning commission, directing construction of the community library and leading financing and contracting for a city Fitness Center Dick and Bonnie brought into the world three children, Steven, Sheila and Paula, all of which survive and who continue family rearing with four grandchildren, Logan, Ginny, Katy, and Savannah. Dick is also survived by his wife Bonnie Lou, who enjoys visits from community friends and family at the Indian Village Retirement community in Fairfield Bay. In lieu of flowers, please mail a modest contribution to the John Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center: The Johns Hopkins University Department of Pathology/Ross 558 720 Rutland Avenue Baltimore, Md. 21205, ATTN: Elaine Delman Please indicate an acknowledgment to be sent to: Richard Kellenberg Alzheimer's Contribution. Dick will be honored on Wednesday, December 21 at the Fairfield Bay Methodist Church at 1:30 p.m. and then interred into the church Memorial Columbarium (which coincidently, he also designed and built). Arrangements are by Roller McNutt Funeral Home in Clinton. Online guestbook: rollerfuneralhomes.com.