John Leland Juenemann, age 3 months and 3 weeks, died Saturday, November 15, 2014 at Citizens Medical Center in Colby.

He was born July 21, 2014 in Denver to Michael and Amanda (McIlnay) Juenemann.

Survivors include his parents, Michael and Amanda, brother Max, grandparents: Steve and Sara Juenemann and Joe and Sheryl McIlnay, all of Colby; great grandmothers: Mary Ann Juenemann and Eleanor Rogers of Selden, and Doreen Kennedy of Hoxie, and many aunts, uncles and cousins.

John was preceded in death by his great grandparents: Lawrence Juenemann, Stanley Rogers, Leland and Celeste McIlnay, and Bill Kennedy.

Funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at Sacred Heart Church, Colby. Visitation: Tuesday, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the church with a vigil service at 7:00 p.m. Interment will be in the Sacred Heart Cemetery, Colby. Memorials to the John Juenemann Memorial Fund, Sacred Heart Church, and the Rocky Mountain Children's Health Foundation, Denver may be sent to Kennedy-Koster Funeral Home, PO Box 221, Oakley, KS 67748.

We would like to thank everyone for all the thoughts and prayers for our family and John over the course of John's journey. We can't even begin to comprehend the amount of lives that our little boy has touched. We believe that God's plan was to reach people and bring them to Him through prayer. And it was successful.

Amanda and I may never know the reason why God chose our family to embark with John on his journey but we are grateful that He did. John's life taught us how to pray together, how to trust God, and how to love. It also taught us to have faith. Even though we do not understand God's plan, we must have faith that whatever happens is according to God's plan and there is a reason.

Over the course of John's journey, many people from different churches, communities, and religious affilations prayed for us and John and we want to say thank you for that. We think that everyone will agree that God truly loves all of us as He willingly gave His only Son to die on a cross in order that we may enter into the kingdom of God. We know that we have gained so much respect and love for God, and pray that we can do something everyday to love God even more.

John is in heaven now and our goal is to get there to meet him again. Our little man is on the inside now and hopefully will help us get to heaven so we can see him again.