Michael Lee Billington, Sr., age 68, passed away on March 17, 2026. He was born on October 22, 1957, to Robert Lee Billington and Anna Billington in Excelsior Springs, Missouri.

Jesus, I am coming to you as I am. Not dressed up. Not pretending. Not some polished man. I got asphalt in my blood and gravel in my voice. I'm rough around the edges, and I'm making this choice to speak to you in a language that's my own. Not with pretty words I don't really own. I'm speaking from the street, from the broken and the real. From a man who knows the cost of what he has to feel.

He wasn't polished, more worn-in and true, with hands that showed what hard work can do. Rough around the edges, steady and strong,
The kind of man you could count on all along. A father in action, not words he'd say, teaching by living it day after day. And to his grandkids, a quiet kind of care, in laughs, in lessons, in just being there. Now his work is done, his long day through- Be he lives on in what he built in you.

A funeral service is planned for 2:00 P.M. Saturday, March 21, 2026, at Baker Funeral Home, 3224 N. Tyler Rd. Wichita, KS, 67205.