Memorial services for Hall of Fame Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson will be next month
Services for former Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson, who died Wednesday, will take place next month in Kansas City.
A public obituary, which appeared in The Kansas City Star, says services will be held at 11 a.m. Sept. 16 at the Country Club Christian Church, 6101 Ward Parkway.
That’s the day after the Chiefs’ home opener on “Thursday Night Football.”
Dawson, who was a starter for the Chiefs for 14 seasons and led Kansas City to the Super Bowl IV title, is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player and a broadcaster. He was an NFL game analyst for NBC Sports for six years, co-hosted HBO’s “Inside the NFL” for 24 years; and was part of the Chiefs’ radio team for more than three decades.
Dawson, who died at age 87, had been in hospice for nearly two weeks before he passed away.
The obituary says Dawson’s wife, Linda, asks that in lieu of flowers, mourners make a donation in his memory to Kansas City Hospice or the University of Kansas Health System. Those latter offerings are intended to support nursing scholarships.
The nursing scholarship donations can be mailed to Fund Development, 2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Suite 305, Westwood, Kansas 66205, or made online at giving.kansashealthsystem.com.
Dawson, an alum of Purdue University, also will be honored by the Boilermakers football team this season. Tom Dienhart of GoldandBlack.com reported that Boilermakers players will wear a helmet decal in Dawson’s memory.
