Shawnee County KS Archives Obituaries.....Fleming, James D. November 26, 2005
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James D. Fleming
b. __________ Topeka KS Shawnee co
d. 11-26-2005 Scottsdale AZ maricopa co
Paradise Memorial Gardens Maricopa co
He was 69. Jim Fleming was the son of the founder of Fleming Foods, Inc. and a
long-time Arizona resident. S/O Ned and Virginia Fleming, Jim graduated from The
Southern Arizona School for Boys and the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. He
completed graduate studies at Harvard University before returning to Topeka to
manage the store development operations of the rapidly growing family food
company. Following a severe heart attack in Salt Lake City Utah, Jim returned to
Arizona where he received a second chance at life on March 3, 1989 with a rare
heart transplant performed by a team of doctors directed by Dr. Jack Copeland at
the University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson. Ever grateful for the second
chance at life, Jim devoted the rest of his life to promoting numerous
charitable activities and programs related to heart transplantation and other of
lifeissues. Among his many humanitarian activities, Jim was a major contributor
to and fund-raiser for the Sarver Heart Center at the University of Arizona
Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona, where he served as the National Campaign
Chair and served on the Board of Directors. He was President of The New Heart
Society of Arizona and co-founder of the Arizona Save-a-Life Alliance. He also
served as vice president of Christ the Lord Lutheran Church in Carefree,
Arizona. A businessman by training, Jim Fleming was also a musician by
conviction in his early college days. He played guitar and organized a touring
band, accompanying such singing stars as Lou Rawles and appearing on popular
musical programs including American Bandstand with Dick Clark. One of his
greatest claims to fame, Jim would say in later years, was the time he up Elvis
Presely.Another great claim to fame was a four handicap on the golf course at
Desert Mountain. bad for an old guy given up for dead a few years ago.Jim would
like to say.


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