Harry Shelly "Jack" Nessly

Nessly, Harry Shelly "Jack" longtime Wichita resident and businessman, died August 29, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where his three daughters reside. Born in Mulvane, Kansas, December 16, 1917, to Harry Cartwright Nessly and Jennie Shelly Nessly, Jack was delivered by Solomon T. Shelly, his grandfather and Mulvane's first doctor. Educated in Mulvane Grade School and High School Jack was President of his class in his graduating year. He was a 1940 graduate of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternal order, ROTC, cheerleader for four years and K-Club member as a tennis and golf player. Julia Ruth Henry married Jack in 1940, the summer of their graduating year at KU. The following year, Jack trained with the U.S. Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia and was sent to the Samoan Islands as a commissioned officer. Later Julia joined him until the Japanese shelling began and wives were returned by ship to the states. (Julia d. 1989) Nearing the war's end, Jack retired a Lt. Colonel and was a M. C. reservist. Jack wanted to be an auto dealer like his father and secured a General Motors dealership in Belle Plaine. More than 25 years later, Jack become an account executive with Merrill Lynch in Palo Alto, California, and later returned to Kansas as a real estate broker for Tallgrass/Ritchie Corporation in Wichita. He did volunteer work into his 90s at the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame Museum in Wichita. An avid golfer throughout his life, he played many of the major golf clubs in the world. He had memberships at the Wichita Country Club and the California Club in San Francisco. His greatest joy was golfing with his Wichita friends. Preceding him in death was his wife of almost 30 years, Flora Rogers Whitmer Nessly, and stepson, Frank Whitmer. Surviving family members are stepdaughter, Joan Whitmer (Bill) Dawson of South Bend, IN; three daughters: Amy Gwinn Nessly, Jenifer Nessly Shell, Carol Nessly Carpenter, all of Albuquerque; son-in-law, Dan Carpenter; two grandchildren, Jack S. Carpenter and Ruth Carpenter (Kelly) Bauer; two great-grandchildren, Emma and Toby Bauer.