Obituaries

Hazel Lawson

Hazel Lawson

Mar 19, 2012

Hazel Marie Lawson, 73,  of  Medicine Lodge, KS, formerly of Chillicothe, passed away March 19, 2012 at Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital. Hazel was born May 13, 1938 in Chillicothe, MO the daughter of  Roy  Junior Hatfield and Marie Burton Hatfield. She attended Chillicothe schools. A resident of Medicine Lodge for over 9 years, Hazel lived with her daughter Rebecca. She enjoyed traveling back to...

Lavona McCaghy

Lavona McCaghy

Mar 13, 2012

Lavona May McCaghy, 94, of Chillicothe, MO passed away Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe. Lavona was born May 23, 1917 in Humansville, MO the daughter of Clarence Deaver and Chloe Endicott Deaver. She passed the State Board Exam and became a cosmetologist at age 17. She ran her own shop in the afternoons while attending...

Lolila Cramer

Lolila Cramer

Mar 11, 2012

Lolila Rose Cramer, 79, of Ludlow, MO, died Sunday, March 11, 2012 at Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, MO. Lolila was born July 30, 1932 at the family home in southern Grundy County to J.W. and Lida (Ellis) Altenderfer. She was the youngest of 6 siblings. She attended Liberty Chapel Church, only a short distance south of the...

Victor Jones

Victor Jones

Mar 6, 2012

Victor Lee Jones, 88, of Dawn, Missouri, passed away March 6, 2012 at the Golden Age Nursing Home in Braymer, Missouri. Victor was born December 8, 1923, in Dawn, Missouri to Abner McKinley and Hazel Eileen (Timbrook) Jones.  On August 29, 1974, he married Karlene (Hamilton) Neal at the Free Methodist Church in Chillicothe, Missouri. He is survived by his wife...

Clifton Eckert

Clifton Eckert

Feb 27, 2012

Clifton Lyle Eckert, 61, of Chula, MO passed away Monday, February, 27, 2012 at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe, MO. He was born July 7, 1950 in Sterling City, CA the son of Charles Eckert and Edna Fern Holden Eckert. Clifton Lyle was a graduate of Laredo High School and was a heavy equipment operator for Hunts Midwest Mining Corp....

Mary Williams

Mary Williams

Feb 21, 2012

Mary Frances Williams, 87, of Louisiana, MO. formerly of Chillicothe, passed away Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at Maple Grove Lodge in Louisiana. Mary Frances Williams was born February 25, 1924 in Chillicothe, MO the daughter of Lewis Wayne Cooper and Lena Hargrave Cooper. She was a graduate of Chillicothe High School. On May 26, 1949 Mary Frances married Luther Elmer...

Thelma Buttman

Thelma Buttman

Jan 13, 2012

Thelma Fern Buttman, 79, of Chillicothe, MO passed away Friday, January 13, 2012 at Indian Hills Retirement Village in Chillicothe, under the care of her family and Hedrick Medical Center Hospice. She was born November 10, 1932 in Eversonville, MO, the daughter of Lloyd and Lavon Ewing Engleman. She lived in the Eversonville and Meadville area until she graduated from...

Ruth Cunningham

Ruth Cunningham

Jan 10, 2012

Ruth Hammond Cunningham, 89, of Blue Springs, MO formerly of Laredo and Chillicothe, MO passed away Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at Center Point Medical Center, Independence, MO, surrounded by her family. Ruth Catherine Cunningham was born October 21, 1922 in Kansas City, MO, the daughter of Jess Garfield Warren and Floy Ardenia Smiley Warren (deceased). She married Bill D. Cunningham...

Betty Truesdell

Betty Truesdell

Jan 5, 2012

Betty Ann Wimmer Truesdell 77, of Chillicothe, MO passed away Thursday, January 5, at her home under the care of her family and Hedrick Medical Center Hospice. Betty Ann was born April 3, 1934 on a farm near Avalon, Missouri to Russell Lee Wimmer and Ruth Gladine Akerson Wimmer. She attended Avalon High School and enjoyed 4-H and hoped to...

Grace VanEaton

Grace VanEaton

Jan 4, 2012

Grace Mary Perry VanEaton, 99, was born on a farm in Livingston County near Blue Mound, MO to Elmer E. and Mary Annie Jones Perry November 7, 1912, on her mother’s 30th birthday. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in summer school at Kirksville, earning a temporary teaching certificate. She taught grade school that fall and she rode a...

Lonnie Hussey

Lonnie Hussey

Dec 24, 2011

Lonnie Joe Hussey, age 72, a resident of  Kansas City, MO passed away at Liberty Hospital in Liberty, MO on Saturday, December 24, 2011. Lonnie was born on June 10, 1939, the son of Mike and Jeannette (Mace)  Hussey. On  August 10, 1997 he married Helen Dorene  Kirkendoll in Chillicothe, MO. He was a member of the Avalon Methodist Church, the Elks Lodge and...

Howard Brown, Sr.

Howard Brown, Sr.

Dec 22, 2011

Howard Franklin Brown Jr., 81, of Chula, MO passed away at North Kansas City Hospital. Howard was born December 8, 1930 in Bethany, MO the son of Howard Franklin Brown Sr. and Vesta Flora Puls Brown.  He was a graduate of Bethany High School. He enlisted in the United States Navy and was a Korean War Veteran serving from 1950 -...

Roger Richey

Roger Richey

Dec 14, 2011

Roger Ken Richey, 63, of Chillicothe, MO died Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe under the care of his family and Hedrick Medical Center Hospice. Roger was born November 25, 1948 in Ludlow, MO the son Harold Earl Richey and Dorothy Elizabeth Atterbury Richey and he was a 1966 graduate of Southwest High School in Ludlow,...

Thomas Beedle

Thomas Beedle

Dec 9, 2011

Thomas S. Beedle, Age77, a resident of Chillicothe, MO died on Friday, December 9, 2011 at Liberty Hospital. He was born on July 31, 1934 in Kansas City, MO the son of Richard and Mary Juanita (Gann) Beedle. In 1964 he married Ina Sparks. At a young age his father died and his mother married Arthur Dryden of Chillicothe, MO...

Charlotte Condron

Charlotte Condron

Dec 3, 2011

Charlotte Sue Condron, 66, of Dawn, MO passed away December 3, 2011 at her home, under the care of her family and Hedrick Medical Center Hospice. Charlotte was born September 10, 1945 in Chillicothe, MO the daughter of E. Edwin Haynes and Ellenore Marie Johnson Haynes. She attended Blue Mound Elementary School and was a graduate of Tina-Avalon High school....

John Rupp Jr.

John Rupp Jr.

Nov 22, 2011

John Rupp Jr., 76, a life long resident of Chillicothe, MO passed away November 22, 2011. He attended St. Joseph’s Academy and St. Benedict’s College ( now Benedictine) in Atchison, KS. He owned and operated John Rupp Oil Co. in Chillicothe, MO. He is survived by his wife Dolores; sister Marjorie (Dr. Roy - deceased) Dampf; brother David (Sharon) Rupp;...

Pauline Webb

Pauline Webb

Nov 16, 2011

Pauline Webb, 78, of Chillicothe, MO passed away Wednesday, November 16, 2011 surrounded by family after a short, but courageous battle with cancer. She was born on February 22, 1933 in Eufaula, Oklahoma, the daughter of the late William Jefferson Madewell and Letha Lucinda (Lawson) Madewell. She was one of seven children. She married Russell Lee Webb in 1951 and...

Gordon Livingston

Gordon Livingston

Nov 8, 2011

Gordon Gene Livingston, 69, of rural Chillicothe, MO passed away Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at his home, under the care of his family and  Hedrick Medical Center Hospice. Gordon was born March 1, 1942 in Chillicothe, the son of Howard N. Livingston and Iris McGinity Livingston. He was a 1960 graduate of Chillicothe High School. Gordon was a Vietnam Veteran serving...

Glen Acree, Sr.

Glen Acree, Sr.

Nov 4, 2011

Glen Clifton Acree, Sr. 91, of Mooresville, MO died Friday, November 4, 2011 at Livingston Manor Care Center, Chillicothe, MO. Glen was born October 14, 1920 in Meadville, MO, the son of Paul Acree and Ella Blanche Lahman Acree and attended Chillicothe High School. He was a World War II Veteran, serving in the United States Army in the European,...

Paul Jones

Paul Jones

Oct 18, 2011

Paul Hardin Jones, 90, of Dawn, MO died Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at Morningside Center in Chillicothe. Paul was born October 22, 1920 in Dawn, MO the son of Charles Benjamin Jones and Ethel Perryman Jones. He was a 1938 graduate of Chillicothe High School and served in the United States Navy Sea Bees from August 1945 thru June 1946....

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