Sedgwick-Shawnee County KS Archives Obituaries.....West, Ivan M. October 25, 2005
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Ivan M. West
b. 3-1-1910   Garden City mo Cass co
d. 10-25-2005 
Memorial Park Cemetery  KC MO  Jackson co
Retired CPA, banker, investment advisor, corporate financial advisor and serial
entrepreneur. S/O Garland and Josephine West. After graduating from high school
in Garden City, Missouri at the age of 15, he worked in a local bank until the
bank's premises were destroyed in a fire. At age 18 he entered the University of
Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1932 in
Business with majors in accounting and finance. His career in public accounting
started with the Kansas City CPA firm of Lunsford Barnes, which sent him to its
Wichita office. In 1938 he and Bill Moberly left Lunsford Barnes to start the
firm that became Moberly, West, Jennings and Shaul. It grew into one of the
largest CPA firms in the region. That firm eventually became Main Hurdman and
later became the genesis of Allen, Gibbs and Houlik. He served his profession
well as President of the Kansas Society of Certified Public Accountants and
member of the Auditing Standards Committee of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants. In 1965 he founded the Twin Lakes State Bank where
he served as chairman. In 1968 he retired from the CPA business. In 1976 he sold
the Bank. Soon thereafter, he was recruited by Beech Aircraft Chairwoman, Olive
Ann Beech and President Frank Hedrick to manage the corporation's pension fund
investments. That soon led to an assignment to engineer the sale of Beech
resulting in the sale to Raytheon. Not content to have had three very successful
careers, Ivan started matching sellers and buyers of businesses that resulted in
approximately a dozen bank sales in 1981 and 1982. In 1983, with Don Peters and
Gary Gamm, he founded Investment Management Group that quickly grew to an
investment advisory firm with over $1 billion in assets under management along
with a robust mergers and acquisitions practice. His last entrepreneurial
endeavor was to join with Messrs. Peters and Gamm to establish a Rent-A-Center
operation in Hawaii which grew to five stores and was sold in 1991 following
which he retired for the fourth and final time in 1991. During his business
career he always had time for community service including terms as Chairman of
the Institute of Logopedics and the Wichita Club. He was preceded in death by
his wife, Dona, his ex-wife Helen and his daughter Rebecca.  


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