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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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., 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, 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 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 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 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....