Lee's Summit Historical Cemetery of the cemetery. This sign dates back to 1860 and once marked the entrance to the cemetery. The most notable of all people interred at LSHC is Thomas Coleman Younger, better known as Cole Younger. Younger was born in Lee’s Summit in 1844 and killed his first man during a border skirmish serving as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. He was 21 when the Civil War ended in 1865, and he returned home to join his ailing mother and three brothers. Cole and his brothers, Jim, John, and Bob, all joined the James Gang and lived the lives
Bob Cole (sportscaster) Redmond or John Davidson. Dick Irvin, Jr. also often joined his broadcast team as a third man in the booth for big games. Since the departure of both Neale and Irvin, Jr., his usual booth-mates are either Garry Galley and/or Greg Millen. In 2007, Cole captured his first Gemini Award in the area of Sports Play-by-Play. Cole was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1996 as the recipient of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for broadcasting excellence. Prior to his career in broadcasting, Cole was a successful curler, playing in the 1971 and 1975 Briers as the skip