Herbert W. Goldbeck
Oct 2, 2017
Herbert W. Goldbeck was born to Arthur and Viola Goldbeck in Lyons, IL on February 19, 1937. He went home to be with his Heavenly Father on October 2, 2017 at the age of 80 years. He was united in marriage to Shirley Goldammer on February 23, 1963 in Jefferson City, Missouri. The couple were both happily married and best...
Dr. Ferd O. Wise, Jr.
Oct 2, 2017
Ferd Orlo Wise Jr, born July 2nd, 1938 at Morningside Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Carroll Pugh Wise and Ferd O. Wise has passed away on October 2, 2017 in Springfield. MO. For the past 27 years Ferd lived on Table Rock Lake with his wife, Mary C. Casada. Ferd is survived by his wife Mary, three...
Ronald Vanbenthusen
Sep 29, 2017
Service will be held Thursday, October 12th at 6 p.m. at Gorman-Schapf Funeral Home with a visitation following the service.
Jody Breazeale
Sep 29, 2017
Jody Jay Breazeale, 60, was born in Springfield on March 10, 1957 to Paul and Evaline Breazeale. He died September 29th at home surrounded by loved ones. He was an amazing son, a devoted husband, major-league father, beloved brother and comical uncle. Playing men's slow and fast pitch softball, watching baseball and creative writing were his hobbies.
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Dottie Lee Farmer
Sep 24, 2017
Dottie Lee Farmer, age 90, passed away September 24, 2017 in Springfield, Missouri where she had made her home for most of her adult life. She was born August 17, 1927 to Chester and Ruby Hart of El Dorado Springs, Missouri and graduated from El Dorado Springs High School in 1947.
Dottie's primary place of employment was...
Douglas Elliott Peintner
Sep 24, 2017
Douglas Elliott Peintner was born January 23, 1967 in Pratt, KS to Leonard James and Diana Mae (Heffernan) Peintner. He was the second of eight siblings and attended St. Joseph Grade School in Shawnee, KS and Immaculate Conception Grade School in Springfield, MO. He graduated from Kickapoo High School in Springfield, MO in 1985 and went on...
Aaron Wills Hensley
Sep 23, 2017
Aaron was born on November 21, 1974 to Wills Hensley and Dian (Allen) Hensley. Aaron passed away from natural causes on September 23, 2017.
He attended Parkview High School playing three (3) years of football for the PHS Vikings. Aaron worked for several years in management for Dillons Supermarket Stores before moving to Columbia to complete a...
Mary Deweese
Sep 22, 2017
Mary Evelyn DeWeese, 85 of Springfield, MO. passed away in the early hours of September 22nd surrounded by family. She was born in Brunswick, MO. February 23, 1932 to Clarence and Alice Strub lovingly known as Bo Bo daddy and Bo Bo mamma. In her high school years she worked as a soda jerk at her father's "Uptown" drugstore, and...
Robert Tearle Chancellor
Sep 22, 2017
In Memory of Bob Chancellor
"It is appropriate that I write my own obituary, as that was my first job as a journalist." This must be the first deadline Bob ever missed, but we have the lead he wanted.
Robert (Bob) Tearle Chancellor, age 81, died on Friday September 22, 2017 due to rapidly-developing complications...
Cecil Arlin Wyett
Sep 22, 2017
Cecil A. Wyett passed away on September 22, 2017 in Springfield, Missouri. He was born on May 8, 1915 in San Jose, California to William Edward Wyett and Clara Harmon Wyett. Cecil grew up in southwestern Missouri living in the towns of Brookfield, Springfield and Marshfield, Mo. He is a 1933 graduate of Marshfield High...
Sherry Jorgensen
Sep 21, 2017
Sherry L. Jorgensen passed away the morning of September 21st, 2017 after a short battle with cancer at the age of 63. Sherry was born in Springfield, Missouri November 29th, 1953 to Jack and Wanda Jean Dixon.
Sherry was preceded in death by her father Jack Dixon, her mother Jeannie Dixon, her sister Cindy Thomas and grandparents...
Violet Todora
Sep 21, 2017
Violet Todora, age 85, of Springfield, Missouri, formerly of St. Paul, Minnesota, passed away September 21, 2017.
She was preceded in death by her husband Joseph Anthony Todora; stepfather Aubry Luikart, and mother Margaret, father Kenneth Conley; sister-in-law Joy Conley; sons-in-law Louis LaGattuta and David Becker; her brother Don...
Bette Manary
Sep 21, 2017
Bette Rae Manary, 90, of Springfield, passed away Sept. 21, 2017. She was born October 5, 1926 to Lela Smith.
She graduated from Springfield High School where she was a Kiltie and attended Business College. She worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company for many years. She met and married the love of her life Joe Manary, to...
Doug Linn Hackworth
Sep 19, 2017
Graveside services will be held on Monday, October 2, 2017 at 2:00 PM at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery.
Rovelle Bersted
Sep 18, 2017
Rovelle Bersted, 71, Springfield, passed away on Monday, September 18, 2017 in Lakewood Arbors.
She was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 18, 1946 to Wesley and Jaqueline (Allaben) Bois. She married Chris Bersted on August 20, 1966 and they moved to Texas to further their education. She attended Knox College and TCU where she received a...
Jacquetta Carolyn Lowry
Sep 17, 2017
Jacquetta Carolyn Lowry, 85, of Springfield, MO passed away on Sunday, September 17, 2017.
Born April 29, 1932 in Chanute, KS, she was the daughter of the late Clyde and Myrtle Chambers. She is preceded in death by her husband Edgar A. Lowry and brother Robert Chambers. She is survived by her three sons David, Steven and...
Carl Edward Deck
Sep 17, 2017
Carl Edward Deck, loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, died Sunday, September 17, 2017 the the age of 81, following health complications at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, MO. Ed was born May 6, 1936 to Trucille (Blumer) and Carl R. Deck in Okmulgee, OK. His parents and younger brother, Harold, moved to Buffalo, MO at an early age.
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Jean Alice Johnson
Sep 12, 2017
Jean Alice (Cain) Johnson, 90, was born November 17, 1926 in Joplin, MO to Edith Irene (Hawes) and Joe Clifford Cain. She slipped quietly from this world on September 12, at her home surrounded by her loving family.
She came to Springfield in 1949 to attend Southwest Missouri State where she graduated and met her husband-to-be, Elvis...
Dennis Keith Matney
Sep 12, 2017
Dennis Keith Matney, 56, of Buffalo, Missouri, passed away peacefully on September 12, 2017. Born on December 12, 1960 in West Plains, to Clarence and Wilma Matney. He was an avid hunter, volunteer firefighter, ordained minister and loved everything about racing. He was a member of Fair Grove Assembly of God. Dennis is preceded in death by his father,...
Ruth Kaufman Palmer
Sep 12, 2017
Ruth Kaufman Palmer, age 99, a lifelong Springfield resident, died on September 12, 2017, at Stonecrest Assisted Living Facility in Kansas City, following a short illness. She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, well-known singer, successful realtor, volunteer, church and community leader, and friend to many. She lived her 99 years...
