Corey Leggs

Corey Marnall Leggs lived in Kansas City and was known to family and friends as someone who helped others and showed up when asked. Public records and contemporary news accounts identify him by name and place him in the community of Kansas City, Missouri, where he spent his days among neighbors, acquaintances, and loved ones.

Though formal, family-published obituary text has not been located in major newspaper or funeral-home archives, contemporary reporting from local media confirms that Corey died on September 14, 2010. Local remembrances at the time noted a service on Indiana Avenue and that he was later buried at Brooking Cemetery in the Raytown/Kansas City area. Those brief reports reflect that people close to him gathered to honor his life and lay him to rest.

Publicly available details about Corey’s life beyond name, community, and the date of his death are limited in standard archival sources. What is evident from the record is that Corey mattered to people who planned a memorial service and who remember him as more than a line in a report. Even where specifics are scarce, it is important to hold to the basic truth: Corey was a person with relationships and a place in his neighborhood whose life had meaning to friends and family.

This page honors that fact. If you are a family member or friend with memories, photographs, or details you would like included here — dates of birth, stories of his work, passions, and the people he loved — those contributions would help round out the portrait of Corey Marnall Leggs and ensure the memorial reflects the fullness of his life rather than only the circumstances of his death.