Annie Reinhart

Missouri Representative, 34th District The Honorable Annie Reinhart, Liberty, a member of Missouri House of Representatives, died Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at the North Kansas City Hospital. She was 61 years old. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Friday, August 27, at the Rock of KC Church, 10801 N. Amity Ave., in Platte County. Burial in Resurrection North Cemetery. Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at St. James Catholic Church, 309 S. Stewart Rd., Liberty, MO. The Reinhart family suggest memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society in honor of Annie. Representative Reinhart was born October 29, 1942, in Mobile, AL, the daughter of Morris and Nathalie Johnson Sweeney. She was reared in Mobile and Pine Bluff, AR. She moved to Liberty in 1989. She was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1996 and had served four terms as representative from the 34th district. In the House of Representatives, she served as Majority Caucus Secretary and on the House Committee on Children and Families. Previously she had served on the Budge, AppropriationsSocial Services, Social Service Medicaid, the Elderly, Public Safety, Law Enforcement and Veterans Affairs Committees, as well as interim member of the Committee on Prevention of Child Abduction and Kidnapping. Rep. Reinhart received numerous awards, among them the Outstanding Republican Freshman Legislator for Responsible Health Care Reform, Farm Bureau Friend of Agriculture award and the MSTA Friends of Education award. He was a member of the Republican National Committee, National Association of Women Legislators, The Liberty Area Chamber of Commerce, Missouri Farm Bureau, and the Liberty Seroptimist Club. She served on the Board of Directors of the Shepherd's Center of the Northland, on the board of the United Way and the Women's Crisis Center, in Camden, AR. She was a former member of the Board of Directors of the Liberty Symphony. Mrs. Reinhart was preceded in death by her father. She is survived by her husband of 33 years, Michael Reinhart of the home; two sons, Darren Reinhart, Leonardtown, MD, and David Reinhart, Smithville, MO; two daughters, Angie Herman, Dallas, TX, and Elana Myers, Camden, AR; her mother, Nathalie Johnson, Pine Bluff, AR; a sister, Martha Sanderson, Houston, TX; 10 grandchildren; and a great-grandson. (Arrangements: Fry-Runyan Funeral Home, Kearney, MO, 816-628-4411)