Gary D. Mitchell, 8 year old son of Terry and Paula Mitchell of Joplin, MO., former Chanute, Kansas residents, passed away at 6:11 am. Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO. Following an accident. Gary was born August 24, 200 in Chanute, Kansas and moved to Joplin in November, 2009. He was about to enter the 3rd grade at Kelsey Norman Elementary School in Joplin. He attended the Forest Park Baptist Church in Joplin.

Additional survivors include seven brothers, Dustin Mitchell, Jake Mitchell, Douglas Mitchell and Howard Mitchell, all of Chanute, Kansas and Sheldon Mitchell, Jonathan Cavitt, and Dmitry Cederberg, all of Joplin, three sisters, Brittany Mitchell, Chanute Kansas, Katrina Kelley, Topeka, Kansas, and Katherine Riggs, Parker, Kansas, his maternal grandparents, Terry and Carol Shakelford, Hardy Arkansas, and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. He was preceded in death by a grandmother, Betty Davison, and uncle Gary Mitchell, and a cousin, Nikole Ramsdell.

Services will be at 1:00pm Saturday at the Forest Park Baptist Church Chapel with Dr. John Swadley, and Pastor Greg Fels, Officiating. Private family burial will be Sunday at Baker Cemetery in Hardy, Arkansas. The family will receive friends from 7-8 pm Friday at the Mason-Woodard Chapel in Joplin.