Sharon Kay Robb, of Raymore, Missouri, passed away on October 15, 2026, at the age of 75. Sharon lived a life that was anything but ordinary. She was spirited, passionate, fiercely loving, full of laughter, and never afraid to live life on her own terms. To know Sharon was to know someone who loved deeply, laughed loudly, and left an unforgettable impression on the people fortunate enough to call her family or friend.
Sharon was born January 24, 1951, in Kansas City, Kansas, to Helen and Charles Robb. She moved with her family to Warsaw, Missouri, while in junior high and graduated from Warsaw High School in 1969. Warsaw remained home to Sharon for much of the first 50 years of her life.
She was one of four children and shared a particularly special bond with her identical twin sister, Cheryl McCain. The two were extraordinarily close throughout their lives. Sharon also had a younger brother, Robert Robb, and an older brother, C.A. Robb. Sharon suffered the heartbreaking losses of both Cheryl and Robert when they were each only around 40 years old. The Robb siblings shared a tight bond, and Sharon, Cheryl, and Robert made many unforgettable memories together during their younger years in Warsaw.
Sharon was married and divorced five times. For Sharon, loving someone new came easily. She was a woman who loved passionately and was never afraid to open her heart. Her life in her 30s and 40s was spirited, colorful, and sometimes chaotic—but it was also filled with fun and adventure. During those years, she bartended at several establishments around the Warsaw area while continuing her lifelong work as a piano teacher. She could make a great cocktail and especially enjoyed making her daughter Jenny her first Slo-Gin Fizz when Jenny would visit her at the bar. Sharon loved her Coors Light, late nights, flashy clothes, and long fingernails painted the brightest red imaginable. She had a personality that could fill a room, and she lived those years with gusto.
But through every chapter of Sharon's life, there was one constant: music.
Sharon was a piano teacher for virtually her entire life. Her piano was more than an instrument—it was her joy, her companion, and, as those who knew her would say, her best friend. Music was woven into the fabric of her life from beginning to end.
During Jenny's childhood, Sharon taught approximately 15 piano students at a time and hosted large piano recitals for her students and their families. When Sharon and Jenny's father built their home in Lincoln, they designed the front entryway specifically around Sharon's piano teaching. The floor was reinforced to support her large black baby grand piano, and the room was soundproofed so that the piano could be played at any time of day. That piano became a fixture of their home and a reflection of Sharon's lifelong desire to share music with others.
And Sharon played everything. She could move effortlessly from Chopin and Mozart to Scott Joplin's The Entertainer, from Anne Murray and the oldies to Billy Joel and, later, the newest songs by Taylor Swift. She simply loved music—and she loved playing for people. Even near the end of her life, she was still sharing that gift. A friend at her final home recently recalled that Sharon sat down at the piano and played New York, New York just for him.
Sharon's only child, daughter Jenny (Frisch) Daniel, was born in 1971. During Jenny's high school and college years, the two shared an especially close relationship. They were less like a traditional mother and daughter and more like best friends and sisters. That bond remained one of the defining relationships of Sharon's life.
Following the death of her mother, Helen, around 2000, Sharon moved to Pleasant Hill, Missouri, to be closer to Jenny and her grandson, Justin. As Sharon faced challenges throughout her life, Jenny became the person who helped care for her and manage the details of daily life when Sharon was unable to do so. Eventually, Sharon moved with Jenny and Justin to Kansas City and, during the final five years of her life, to Raymore. For roughly the last 25 years of Sharon's life, her world increasingly centered around her daughter and grandson.
And in those years, Sharon became the mother and grandmother she had always been capable of being.
She was an extraordinary help to Jenny, who was busy building a career as a school principal. Sharon kept Jenny's home immaculate, did the laundry, ironed everything, cared for the flowers, and used her remarkable green thumb to keep the plants thriving. She helped make life possible for her daughter in countless quiet ways.
She was equally devoted to Justin. Throughout his elementary and middle school years, Sharon faithfully drove him to allergy shots in a neighboring town and, without fail, treated him to Captain D's afterward. She did it week after week, year after year, until he was old enough to drive himself. Sharon was, in every sense, the perfect grandma.
In 2011, Jenny met James Daniel, and they married in 2013. Through James, Sharon's family grew far beyond the daughter and grandson she had once centered her life around. She became a step-grandmother to James's five children, including Leigh Daniel, who became especially close to Sharon after moving in with Jenny, James, and Justin. Leigh often said that Sharon treated her exactly as she treated Justin.
Over the years, Sharon formed loving relationships with all of her grandchildren, including Jordan Jennings, Alex Daniel, Kayla McDonald, and Ashley Allen. What began as a very small family became a wonderfully large one. The grandchildren grew up, married, and started families of their own. Sharon became a great-grandmother to 14 great-grandchildren.
For a woman who began life as the mother of one daughter and grandmother to one little boy, Sharon's family eventually became something much bigger than she could have ever imagined. Last Christmas, the house was filled with a huge, lively, wonderfully chaotic family—a family that had grown around her and given her so many people to love.
And loving people was something Sharon did exceptionally well.
Once you were Sharon's friend or family, she loved you deeply. She held on tightly and gave her love generously. She was warm, funny, passionate, and sometimes wonderfully outrageous. She had a zest for life and a way of making people laugh. Her personality was never small, and her absence will never feel small.
Sharon was also a devoted child of God. Her faith was deeply important to her, and she proudly belonged to the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Throughout the many challenges she faced in her life, she held tightly to her faith and convictions. She fought hard through difficult seasons and always worked to find her way back to stability and health.
Sharon is survived by her daughter, Jenny Daniel of Kansas City; her older brother, C.A. Robb of Warsaw; grandsons Justin Bell of Independence and Alex Daniel of Blue Springs; granddaughters Leigh Ketcher of Harrisonville, Jordan Jennings, Kayla McDonald, and Ashley Allen, all of Wichita; niece Clarissa Guffey of Waynesville; nephew Randy Robb of Warsaw; and her 14 great-grandchildren, Jaylyn, Ayden, Charleigh, Weston, Remi, Judah, Lydia, Navy, Oakley, Cash, Birdie, Lucy, Sawyer, and Azorah.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Helen and Charles Robb; her identical twin sister, Cheryl McCain; and her younger brother, Robert Robb.
Above all, Sharon will be remembered for the way she loved: her daughter, her grandson, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, her siblings, her friends, her students, and all of the many people who became part of her enormous circle of love.
She leaves behind a family who will forever hear her in the music of a piano, see her in a garden blooming exactly as it should, remember her bright red fingernails and larger-than-life personality, and smile at the memory of a woman who could make a Slo-Gin Fizz, play New York, New York, and love you fiercely all in the same lifetime.
Sharon lived loudly. She loved deeply. She played beautifully.
And she will be profoundly missed.
Graveside Services and Interment will be held at 1:00 P.M. Friday, October 23, 2026 at the Riverside Cemetery in Warsaw, with Pastor Michael McGinley officiating.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Reser Funeral Home, 101 W. Main Street, Warsaw.
