Lee's Summit business owners killed in Kansas highway crash valued family and ... - Kansas City Star
Richard Nieweg, Kelli Groom’s stepfather, was also killed in the wreck while travelling with the Grooms. He was known to place people who called his home “on hold” while he “transferred” them to the living room department of the kitchen department, Martin said. A couple killed in a crash along Interstate 70 in western Kansas placed a high value on their family and ran an appliance, heating and cooling service business in Lee’s Summit. Mark Groom, 56, and his wife, Margaret Kelli Groom, 55, of Lee’s Summit died Tuesday when the family’s 2003 Chevrolet Suburban rolled over in Gove County. Kelli Groom’s stepfather, Richard E. Nieweg, 85, also died in the wreck. “We have suffered an unfathomable tragedy,” said Cheryl Atwood of Lee’s Summit, the sister-in-law of Kelli Groom. The crash occurred about 11 a. m. Tuesday as the Grooms and Nieweg were on their way to Colorado to visit family near Pikes Peak. “They were planning to come to Colorado, and the area where they were going to vacation is where we live,” said Nieweg’s daughter Janné Martin of Florissant, Colo. After he took an early retirement, he had a variety of jobs, including his own lawn service and driving a school bus, tour bus and Greyhound bus. Source: www.kansascity.com
