It has been seven months since Maya Laing and her brother Sebastian, who were 15 and 11 at the time, were violently taken from their grandmother’s Santa Cruz home by court order.
Judge Rebecca Connelly, who oversaw their custody case, rejected the siblings’ claims that their mother abused them, and last October she ordered them into reunification training to repair their fractured relationship with their mother.
A friend of Maya’s recorded and posted to social media a video of the siblings resisting while transport agents from Assisted Intervention physically overpowered them in October. That was the last time Maya and Sebastian’s father, his family and the children’s friends had any knowledge of their condition until now.
Monday, January 25, 2021
Peggy Sue Kimzey, beloved mother and grandmother, age 73, of Lincoln, Mo., passed away on Friday evening, Jan. 22, 2021, at her home. She was born in Nevada, Mo., on Aug. 30, 1947, the daughter of Raymond and Pat Bliss.
She grew up in Nevada. On May 10, 1963, she was united in marriage to Otis Bud Kimzey in Nevada. They made their home in Nevada, Overland Park, Kan., Spring Hill, Kan., and ultimately in the Warsaw, Mo., area. She was a home maker and worked in retail before her retirement.
Widowed since 1999, Peggy is survived by her partner of 16 years Sam Kerner; two sons, Ray Kimzey and his wife, Debbie, of Gardner, Kan., and Jody Kimzey and his wife, Beverly, of Fontana, Kan.; daughter, Kimberly Clay and her husband, Lonnie, of Maricopa, Ariz.; five grandchildren, Alex, Nicholas and Dakota Kimzey, Jessica Laing and Casey Clay; and two stepgrandchildren, Mike Brough and Brandi Armstrong; one sister, Millie Rose; and one brother, Roy Skip Bliss; pl