Edna Pauline Pitts
Dec 28, 2013
Edna Pauline Pitts, 86 of Springfield passed away Saturday, December 28, 2013 at Mercy Hospital. She was born in Springfield on January 27, 1927 to Lester and Clestia Moore Osborn. Pauline was a very caring and giving lady. She enjoyed making clothes for children at the hospital, baby doll clothes, crocheting and roller skating. She is survived by son, Bob...
Joe Bill Hogan
Dec 28, 2013
Joe Bill Hogan passed away Saturday, December 28, 2013 of heart failure. It was a big heart as it took 92 years to finally give out. He was born August 24, 1921 in Seymour, MO to Cora and Harry C. Hogan. HE graduated from Seymour High in 1939 and SW Missouri State in 1943. He proudly served in the US...
Angela Shipley
Dec 27, 2013
Angela Carol Jones Shipley, age 70, of Springfield passed away on December 27th, 2013 at Mercy Hospital. She was born December 3rd, 1943 in Grove Spring, MO to O.J. and Cecile Louisa Marcum Jones. Angie was married and traveled the world, then came back to her roots in Springfield, MO. She was a beloved mother, grandmother, sister, and aunt, as...
E.M. "Mac" Powell
Dec 27, 2013
E. M. "Mac" Powell passed peacefully Friday, December 27, 2013 after a brief illness. Born August 14, 1922 in Salina, Kansas, son of George and Ruth Powell, his early childhood years were spent in St. James, Missouri before moving to Springfield, Missouri. He attended and graduated from Springfield High School and Drury College before continuing his education at the University...
Roger Eddy
Dec 25, 2013
Roger K. Eddy, 79, passed away December 25, 2013 in his home. Born in Palisade, CO he followed his father's footsteps in becoming a Colorado Highway Patrolman. He went on to become a State Youth Officer, a city mayor, and a gold mine security director at Silverton. Moving to Springfield, he joined the Greene County Sheriff Civil Division working until...
Virginia Kinser
Dec 23, 2013
Virginia Hunt Kinser died Monday, December 23, 2013, while recuperating from a recent illness. She was born February 8, 1926, in Hollister, Missouri. She was preceded in death by her parents, Claude Hunt and Irene Christian and her beloved husband, Rex A. Kinser. She is survived by her niece, Kathie Williams and husband, Gary, her great nephew, Jason Williams and...
James Bailey
Dec 19, 2013
James Ralph Bailey of Springfield, Missouri went home to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in body and spirit on December 19, 2013. He was met at the gates of Heaven by his parents; Helen Cecelia Bailey Woods, and Charles Lee Bailey Jr, grandparents; Charles Lee Bailey Sr and Suzanne Bailey, Cecil Manier and Arzetta Manier Knox, who...
Georgia Hunt
Dec 17, 2013
Georgia Helen Hunt, who spent nearly all her 98 years as a resident of Springfield, died Tuesday, December 17. She passed on in her sleep at the Manor at Elfindale, which had been her home the past six and one-half years. Georgia was born August 23, 1915, in Iberia, but came to Springfield as a child. She was the daughter...
Richard Ness
Dec 17, 2013
Richard Daniel Ness passed away December 17, 2013 in Mercy Hospital. He was born February 5, 1933 in Minneapolis, MN to George and Marie Ness. Richard served honorably in the Army Korean War. For many years he worked as an auctioneer and owned auction houses in Springfield, MO and Des Moines, IA. Richard married his wife Diane February 14, 1989....
Bonnie L. Lane
Dec 16, 2013
Bonnie L. Lane, 80, Springfield passed away December 17, 2013 with her family by her side. Bonnie was born December 31, 1932 at Rockbridge, MO. Most of her life she called Ava home, later moving to Ozark and then to her current residence in Springfield. Bonnie attended school at Rockbridge, Turkey Flat and Pine Flat. She was a member of...
Norma J. Bailey
Dec 16, 2013
Norma Jean Bailey, 72, of Republic, Missouri, passed away of a broken heart Monday evening, December 16, 2013. The daughter of Imal Runnels Garlock and Otterbein Fermin Garlock, she was born September 21, 1941 in Kirksville, Missouri. On June 5, 1960 she married David Eli Bailey. Norma lived in Kirksville for many, many years, and her four children were born...
Gilmer F. Bartelt
Dec 15, 2013
Gilmer F. Bartelt died in his sleep December 15th, 2013 at his home in Springfield, Missouri. He was born in Lewiston Village, near Minnesota City, Minnesota, on May 11th 1922 to Fred and Katherine Schultz Bartelt. He was baptized as an infant into the Lutheran Church - Wisconsin Synod and confirmed as a teenager. After his mother died when he...
Leona Mae Reed
Dec 13, 2013
Leona Mae Reed, 87 of Branson, MO passed away suddenly on December 13, 2013 at Cox Medical Health Center in Springfield, MO. She is the daughter of Israel James and Edith Bale. Leona was born in Morrisville, PA and graduated from Morrisville High School . After business school she worked as a bookkeeper and retired after 30 years with Winans...
Gary Gorman
Dec 12, 2013
Gary John Gorman, 71, passed away Thursday, December 12, 2013 in Cox Health Center. He was born on April 24, 1942 in Long Branch, New Jersey to Daniel Joseph, Sr. and Lillian Thater Gorman. Gary graduated from Neptune High School in 1960. He then joined the Navy where he served as a submarine sailor from 1960 - 1964. He married...
Bonnie J. Schultz
Dec 12, 2013
Bonnie June Schultz, 87, Springfield, was called home to the Lord on Thursday, December 12, 2013, in Springfield, Mo. She was born on June 23, 1926, in Morgan, MO, to Otto and Bessie Peters. Bonnie was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Bonnie married Lloyd Lanier Schultz on December 13, 1947. Bonnie and Lloyd settled in Springfield, MO.,...
Marjorie Ellen Bergmann
Dec 12, 2013
Marjorie Ellen Scruton Bergmann Marjorie Ellen was brought into this world on a sunny day, June 2, 1933, much to the joy of her proud parents George and Margaret, in Greensborough, PA. She was the 5th of 6 beautiful Scruton sisters that broke hearts of countless boys at Smith-Cotton High School in Sedalia, Mo. After graduating, she married William C....
Berta B. Williams
Dec 10, 2013
Berta B. Williams, 95, died December 10, 2013 in Colorado Springs, CO. She was born on August 31, 1918 in Muskogee, OK to William C. and Mattie Lott Harrison. She was preceded in death by her husband, John T. Williams. A graduate of Oklahoma State and Webster University, Berta was an elementary school teacher in St. Louis, MO until retiring...
Evelina Mcintyre
Dec 9, 2013
Evelina McIntyre, 67, passed away peacefully December 9, 2013 in her home. She was born February 15, 1946 in Springfield. She was preceded in death by her husband, Herbert; sister, Donna Ford and her parents, William McKinley and Ollie Ford. Evelina is survived by her son, Ali and wife, Teresa of Brookings, SD; best friend, Shari Haney and granddaughter, Anna...
