Albert Mitchner Sr. was born on September 17, 1951 in Marvell, AR to the late Ernease and Benny Mitchner Sr. He lived there most of his childhood before going to job corps in Phoenix, AZ to find a trade. While travelling as a painter he met his wife; Edna Mitchner (Floyd) in Paola, KS and they married in 1981.

Albert was a very hard worker and spent a great deal of his career life working general labor. Albert loved the outdoors. He loved to go fishing, BBQing and spending time with loved ones. He had a heart of gold and would help anyone anyway he could. He lit up every room he entered. Albert went to church at Lawrence Baptist Temple in Lawrence, KS for many years. He later became an ordained minister where he joined a church in Kansas City, KS and made it his church home.

Albert was called home to be with the lord on May 18, 2022.

He is preceded in death by his father - Benny Mitchner Sr., his mother - Ernease Mitchner, brother - Roy Lee Mitchner and sisters Irene Branch and Bertha Mae Wells.

Albert Lee Mitchner Sr. lived a plentiful life. He will be cherished and remembered by his wife Edna Mitchner as well as his four kids - Latisha L Alarcon (Mitchner) and husband Andres Alarcon-Beltran of Overland Park, KS; Albert L Mitchner Jr of Lawrence, KS; Ashley D Williams (Mitchner) and husband John Williams of Kansas City, MO; and youngest daughter - Tinisha S Mitchner of Lawrence, KS. He is also survived by three beautiful grandkids; Kailani and Zaveri Mitchner of Lawrence, KS and Nevaeh Williams of Kansas City, MO as well as one sister and four brothers; Katherine Washington of Pine Bluff, AR, Benny Mitchner Jr of Pine Bluff, AR, Sampson Mitchner (wife Myrtle) of Nashville, TN, Carl Mitchner (wife Lucille) of Marvell, AR and James Mitchner of Tampa, FL and a host of nieces and nephews.

After Glow

"I'd Like the memory of me to be a happy one. I'd like to leave an after glow of smiles when life is done. I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways. Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I'd like they tears of those who grieve to dry before the sun. Of happy memories that I leave when life is done."

“In the hearts of those who loved you, you will always be there.” “As you were you will always be, treasured forever in our memory.” “I keep in my heart the love of the past, for there it was planted forever to last.” “Your presence I miss, your memory I treasure, loving you always, forgetting you never.”