Raymond J. Robinson
May 1, 2019
Ray Robinson was born Jan. 12, 1943 in Fordland, Mo. and passed away May 31, 2019 in Springfield.
Ray founded Robinson Fence Company in 1978 and operated it until his retirement in 2009. He served in the U.S Army Reserves as a Medic. He is survived by his wife Sheila, two sons Rex and Mike and Mike's...
Charles Jay (Butch) Freeman
Apr 29, 2019
Charles Jay (Butch) Freeman, age 78, of Springfield was quietly carried into the arms of Jesus on Monday, April 29 in his home with his wife and daughters by his side. Butch, the adopted son of James and Verda Freeman, was born on October 12, 1940 in Perry, Iowa to Edgar and Nora Russell. Nora died shortly after Butch...
Mary Jo Megee
Apr 27, 2019
Mary Jo Megee died on April 27,2018 in Springfield, Missouri after a long illness. She was 89.
Mary Jo was born on September 15, 1929 in Gassville, AR to her parents, Joe and Jewell Mace. She graduated from Cotter, Arkansas High School and re-met her future husband Leo after he returned home from serving in the Air...
Arthur Zaumseil
Apr 26, 2019
Cremation under the care of Gorman-Scharpf Funeral Home. No services are planned at this time.
Koula Zaumseil
Apr 26, 2019
Cremation under the care of Gorman-Scharpf Funeral Home. No services are planned at this time.
Edmund Otto Koch
Apr 26, 2019
Edmund Otto Koch, 83, of Nixa, MO passed in peace quietly at Mercy Hospital, Springfield, MO April 26, 2019.
Edmund was the son of Henry A. Koch and Viola Wells Koch of Manchester, MO, born December 28, 1935 at Kirkwood, MO. He was the second of their five children; the late Richard Koch, Robert J. Koch, Henry...
Jimmy Lou Bradley
Apr 25, 2019
Jimmy Lou (Maples) Bradley, 79, of Springfield, MO passed away Thursday, April 25, 2019 after a long illness. She was born April 5, 1940 to Roy F and Lena (Webster) Maples in Los Angeles, California. She was a graduate of Buffalo High School and served our country in the Navy Reserves.
She was preceded in death by...
Jane Tomlin
Apr 24, 2019
Jane Tomlin, 72, of Springfield, passed away on April 24, 2019.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Felix and Virginia Ferguson; grandparents, Ollie and Etta Mae Murray; and brother, Murray Ferguson.
She is survived by the father of her two children, Jess Tomlin; daughter, Stacy L. Hughes of Springfield; son, Jeffrey M. Tomlin...
Robert Wayne Bennett, Jr.
Apr 23, 2019
Robert Wayne Bennett, Jr., 76, of Springfield, passed away April 23, 2019. He was born March 16, 1943 to Robert Wayne and Margaret Webb Bennett. He graduated from Parkview High School in 1961. He attended SMS and was a member of the Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity. He served in the United States Marine Corps as a U.S. Navy Corpsman...
David Keith Stout
Apr 22, 2019
Surrounded by family, David Keith Stout, 76, died April 22, 2019 from complications resulting from Alzheimer's Disease.
Born in Strong City, KS, he was raised on a farm where he learned the value of hard work, family tradition and protecting those you love. This showed in his relationships with his surviving siblings, Carol Redd (Tom), Kathleen Fullerton...
John C. Thomas
Apr 21, 2019
John Charles Thomas, 85, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Sunday, April 21, 2019. He was born and raised in Donora, PA and was the youngest child of Michael and Anna Thomas.
John found his way to Southwest Missouri after receiving a football scholarship to SMS (now known as Missouri State University) and...
Vernon Conrad Blaski
Apr 20, 2019
Vernon Conrad Blaski, 87 of Springfield passed away Saturday, April 20, 2019 in his home.
He was born August 21, 1931 in Racine, Wisconsin to Joseph and Margaret Barthron Blaski.
Vern was an US Army Veteran and worked as a service manager for MD Pneumatics.
He married Hildegard Schulz in Erlangen, Germany and...
Cecil Harold Kerby
Apr 18, 2019
Cecil Harold Kerby of Springfield, MO, passed away at Mercy Hospital on April 18, 2019 at the age of 97. He had lived the past 4 years at Mount Vernon Veterans Home. Cecil was born in Woodward County, Oklahoma to Walter and Ollie Kerby in 1922. He served in the Army Air Force as a pilot during WWII. After...
Berthalene Wood
Apr 16, 2019
Berthalene Wood left this life at the age of 91 on Tuesday, April 16th, 2019. Bert was a Missouri farm girl of German descent. Born in 1927, she was raised during the Great Depression in the Roaring River area of Southern Missouri. She married Donald Jack Wood, a WWII Navy veteran, and they made their home in California for...
Lawrence Joseph William Niewald
Apr 14, 2019
Lawrence Niewald, 88, was born on Feb. 9, 1931, to Ben and Dina Niewald of Hope, MO. On April 14, 2019, he went to be with the Lord.
Upon graduating from Linn High School, he joined the Navy and served during the Korean War. Marriage to Lois Jett brought the blessing of Steve and Cindy.
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Marjorie Ruth Lorenc
Apr 14, 2019
Marjorie Ruth (Hundertmark) Lorenc was born May 24, 1929, in Ottosen, Iowa, on the farm that was homesteaded by her 26-year old grandfather in 1893. She was the second of three children born to Wallace Eldon and Dorothy May (Struthers) Hundertmark. She departed this life on April 14, 2019.
She is survived by her husband of 66...
Johnny Moran
Apr 11, 2019
Johnny Leo Moran of Springfield, MO passed away at Spring Valley Care Center Thursday, April 11, 2019 at the age of 80. Born near Mulhall, OK Aug. 9, 1938 to William (Bill) John and Lena Mae (Tommy) Gilliam Moran who preceded him in death. John attended school in Cashion and Deer Creek, later working the farm soils in these...
Harold K. Kanagawa, M.D.
Apr 9, 2019
Harold Kanagawa, M.D., age 79, passed away on April 9, 2019, surrounded by his family at Mercy hospital in Springfield, Missouri. He was born in Stockton, California on November 9, 1939, to parents Harold "Hajime" and Grace "Yone" Kanagawa.
During World War II, when Harold was a young child and his father had a private medical practice...
