KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A possible homicide victim pulled from a burning Kansas City home is being recalled as a good neighbor and
father.

Seventy-eight-year-old George Graham was found sitting in a chair Wednesday inside his burning home.

Fire department spokesman Battalion Chief Lew Hendricks says firefighters were able to pull him from the house but he was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Graham was the father of six children. One of his sons, Jeffrey Graham, says his father was active in his church and in his neighborhood watch program.

The Rev. Rodney Williams is pastor of Swope Parkway United Christian Church, where Graham worshipped. Williams says Graham regularly took communion to the sick and shut-ins, drove the church van and served on the church’s deacon board.