Lorna Dawn Broadwater
Jan 7, 2013
Lorna Dawn Broadwater Lorna Dawn Broadwater, 42, of Springfield, MO passed away at 11:20 a.m. on Monday, January 7th, 2013, in the Cox Hospital Critical Care Unit. She was a member of the West Plains United Free Will Baptist Church, though she had lived in Springfield, MO for the last three years. She was preceded in death by her older...
Judy Kirby
Jan 6, 2013
Judith Ann Kirby, Springfield, MO, passed away on January 6, 2013. She was born on July 13, 1947, to Kenton Erverand Kirby and Anna Lee Neil. She attained the rank of Major in the United States Army. Judith was preceded in death by her parents and her brother, Mark Stephan Kirby. Judith was a hobby breeder of cockatiels, conures and...
Lillian Duncan
Jan 5, 2013
Lillian Alberta Duncan, 85, received her new home, January 5, 2013. She was born in Mt. Vernon, MO, March 27, 1927. Alberta was preceded in death by her parents, William Blaine and Bessie Renfro; sisters, Elsie Patterson, Winnie Small, Mildred Hoosier, Leona Starks, Gladys Jones; brother, Hollis Renfro; daughter, Betsy Duncan; son, Robert Norris Duncan, Sr; and granddaughter, Yvette Reese....
James Frank Payne
Jan 5, 2013
James F. "Jim" Payne, age 89, of Springfield, MO passed away peacefully at 12:30 PM Saturday, January 5, 2013 in Blue Springs, MO surrounded by his family. He was born in Springfield on September 13, 1923 to Frank and Daisy Payne. After Daisy's death in 1931, Frank married Alma Kiser and she helped raise Jim from the age of 9....
Beulah May Huffhines
Jan 3, 2013
Beulah May Blair Compton Mitchell Huffhines, of Springfield, went peacefully into the loving arms of her Savior on January 3, 2013. Beulah was born July 15, 1929 and raised in Strafford, MO, a daughter of Hubert and Glenna Blair. Beulah was a loving wife, devoted mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She loved working in the yard with her flowers, studying the...
Virginia Patterson
Jan 2, 2013
Virginia Lee Patterson passed away peacefully on January 2nd, 2013 at 10:50pm at the age of 90 years after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease. She was born in Fair Grove, Missouri on July 16th, 1922 to Charles and Stella Hood, and was the youngest of seven children. She graduated high school in Fair Grove, and married Dean Patterson on...
Bee O'Brien
Jan 1, 2013
Bee O'Brien, 92, of Springfield, died Jan. 1, 2013 after a brief illness. Born Aug. 6, 1920, in El Reno, Oklahoma, Edna Bee Taylor Freeman O'Brien remained proud of her "Okie" roots. She met her future husband, Don O'Brien, in his hometown of Faribault, Minnesota, where her father's work had taken her family during her high school years. Bee and...
Mary Boring
Dec 31, 2012
Mary Rachel's final wish, "to go to sleep and wake up in heaven," was granted at 7:50 a.m., on Monday, December 31, 2012, at Mercy Villa, Springfield, Mo. She was 95. She was born March 12, 1917, near Seymour, in Sarvis Point, Mo., to Everett and Dorcas Stephens Jennings. She was the great-granddaughter of a Missouri pioneer family. She was...
Edwin R. Giddens
Dec 31, 2012
Edwin R. Giddens, 56, of Springfield unexpectedly passed away at Cox Medical Center South at 1:00 a.m. on December 31, 2012. Ed graduated from Fair Grove High School in 1974; from Arizona Western College, Yuma, Arizona, in 1996; and from Missouri State University in 1999. He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1994. Ed was a member of the...
Frances Allen
Dec 29, 2012
Frances Mae Allen, 90, formerly of Springfield, passed away on December 29, 2012 at Country Health Nursing Home in Gifford, Illinois. Fran was born November 20, 1922 in Kansas City, Missouri, a daughter of Harold Charles Fisher and Mary Frances Fisher. Fran's family moved to Springfield in 1933. She graduated from Old Springfield High School and then attended Drury College....
Melba I Searles
Dec 29, 2012
Melba I. Searles of Springfield passed away on December 29, 2012. She was born in Medora, Ill on October 7, 1915. She married Harold Searles in 1936 who preceded her in death. She is survived by three daughters, Janice Shockley and husband, Allen of Missouri, Susan Smith of Missouri and Cindy Hartman of Arizona; nine grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. Graveside...
Hazel Leota Mcnabb
Dec 29, 2012
Hazel Leota "Bobbie" McNabb, 90 of Springfield passed away at 9:40 am Saturday, December 29, 2012 in Brookhaven HealthCare. She was born one of thirteen children to Joe and Laura Ghan on August 22, 1922 in Christian County, Missouri. She graduated from Clever High School. Bobbie worked for Rogers and Baldwin before settling down and having a family. She volunteered...
Mary E. Millsap
Dec 28, 2012
Mary Elizabeth (Libby) Davis Millsap, beloved and cherished wife of the late James Edward Millsap, passed peacefully on December 28, 2012, in the home she and he built together fifty years ago. For Libby, life and that home were about familythe one into which she was born as the daughter of Joseph F. Davis and Georgia Ireland Davis on July...
Bill Peacock
Dec 28, 2012
Bill Peacock departed this life on December 28, 2012 after a battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was born in Mansfield, MO on July 11, 1934 an only child of Turner and Mabel (Newton) Peacock. During his early years he lived in Nixa, Humansville and Tescot, Kansas. After graduating from high school and one semester of college the family moved back...
Regina Young
Dec 27, 2012
Regina Young, 60, Springfield, passed away Thursday, December 27, 2012. She was born June 4, 1952 in Springfield. She is survived by her son, Eric Manier and his fiancé Erica; her mother, Rudean Colson; three brothers, Jay and Tony Colson and Mervin Young and two grandchildren, Elijah and Eniyah Manier. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM, Wednesday, January...
Roger H. Taylor Ii
Dec 27, 2012
Roger H Taylor II died Thursday, December 27, 2012, after a long illness. He was 62 years of age. He was born and reared in Springfield, MO, although most of his adult life was spent in Lawrence, Kansas. Roger was a 1968 graduate of Greenwood Laboratory School. He attended the University of Missouri - Columbia, and was a member of...
Gregory Hans Keller
Dec 26, 2012
Gregory Hans Keller, 64 of Fair Grove passed away Wednesday, December 26, 2012 in Cox South. Hans was born June, 28, 1948 in Munich, Germany one of five children born to the military family of H. A. "Fred" and Electa Betsy Keller. Han's family moved to Springfield in 1965 from El Paso, Texas. He was a 1967 graduate of Parkview...
