Jerry Allen Pickering
Jan 4, 2011
Jerry A. Pickering, 85 Springfield, passed away in Cox South Hospital on January 4, 2011. He was born in Springfield, Mo. to Andrew and Loretta Pickering. He graduated from Greenwood High School. For 35 years he was employed by Southwestern Bell Telephone and was a life member of the AT&T Pioneers Organization, Telephone Company Credit Union, and was a pilot...
Patricia Maxine Visintainer
Jan 2, 2011
Maxine Visintainer, Springfield, was born Patricia Maxine Kidd in Norwood, Missouri on September 26, 1924, to Myrtle Bradshaw Kidd and Oscar Kidd, of Wright County. She passed away on January 2, 2011 in Springfield, Missouri. Maxine was Valedictorian of the Norwood High School Class of 1941 and attended Southwest Missouri State Teachers College for two years. Afterward, she traveled extensively...
Joseph Warren Russell
Jan 1, 2011
Joseph Warren Russell was born on January 28, 1979, in Kansas City, Missouri and died in a tragic accident on January 1, 2011 near Springfield, Missouri. After growing up in Springfield and attending Glendale High School, Joe lived in St. Louis and Chicago before returning to Springfield, where he was well known and liked, both in his job as a...
Wilbert Raymond Wilson
Dec 31, 2010
Wilbert Raymond Wilson went to be with the Lord on December 31, 2010 at the age of 100 years and 5 months. He was born July 12, 1910 in Cairo, Missouri, son of John Allen and Margaret Wilson. Wilbert attended Moberly School and lettered in four different sports. He then attended Moberly Junior College for two years and graduated from...
Lodyne Inabelle Warner
Dec 28, 2010
Lodyne Inabelle Warner, 90, of Springfield, passed away at 3:30 pm, Tuesday, December 28, 2010. She was born May 6, 1920 to David McCoy and Vesta Gravelle. Lodyne was a long time resident of Springfield and also Kansas City, Mo. She worked for Kitty Clover as the office manager for several years in Springfield. She was office manager and accountant...
John Roylance, Iii
Dec 24, 2010
John Roylance III, 62, passed away on Friday, December 24th in his sister's home after a long struggle with COPD. In his final days he was lovingly cared for by Seasons Hospice; his sister Bonnie Roswurm, her husband Dan, and Dan's mother, Bonnie; his niece, Angie Wise; and his daughter, Meredith Anderson. John was born on January 10, 1948 in...
Delores Lee Reynolds
Dec 24, 2010
Delores Lee Reynolds, 80, Springfield, Missouri passed peacefully in her home surrounded by her family on Friday, December 24, 2010. She was born February 1, 1930 in Frederick, Oklahoma to Tom and Irene Mallette. Delores and Sammy Reynolds celebrated 60 years of marriage on December 23, 2010. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister,...
Georgia Pearl Sheppard
Dec 24, 2010
Georgia Williams Sheppard passed away 12/24/2010. She was a descendant of the founders of Springfield and daughter of J. Sam and Pearl Williams. Georgia attended Central High School and graduated from Drury College Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. For many years she worked with the Springfield Greene County Libraries...
Charles F. Otradovec
Dec 23, 2010
Charles "Charlie" F. Otradovec passed away on December 23, 2010. Charlie was born in Bolivar, MO to Joseph and Lena (Wilson) Otradovec on January 28, 1931. He served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War and was employed at Kraft Foods for thirty-five years. Charlie married Dorothy "Doris" Otradovec on June 10, 1954. He was a charter...
Margaret Catherine Barnum
Dec 21, 2010
Margaret Catherine Barnum, (Nee O'Donnell, Boyle), went to be with her Lord on Tuesday, December 21, 2010. She was born January 1, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Thomas A. and Catherine E. O'Donnell. She was married to Joseph F. Boyle, who was killed in action in World War II in 1943, and in 1947 she married Horace Elihu Barnum, who...
Roger Allen Wiemer
Dec 20, 2010
Roger Allen Wiemer, loving husband, father, grandfather, friend and mentor passed away peacefully in his home on Monday, December 20, 2010 from complications of colon cancer. He was born June 8, 1932 in Burlington, Iowa to Edgar and Elma Wiemer. He married Norma Jean Brandt on October 18, 1952. He began working for the J.C. Penney Company after graduating from...
Henrietta Bowen
Dec 20, 2010
Henrietta passed away Monday, December 20, 2010 at the ManorCare Health Systems. Henrietta was born July 6, 1928 to Henry and Elva (Malan) Avondet. She was one of ten children. She graduated from Monett High School. Henrietta met Billy B. Bowen, and they married January 25, 1947. To this union two children were born, Pamela Kay and Michael Douglas. She...
Patricia Ann Revella
Dec 16, 2010
It was one of those summer nights in upstate New York. It was a Thursday in August of 1952 and the department stores stayed open until 9 p.m. The entire commercial area was bustling and a great time for boy meets girl. I was standing on a corner watching all the girls go by, and there she was, blonde, blue-eyed...
Alden West Brooks
Dec 16, 2010
Alden West Brooks, 86, passed away December 16, 2010 in Springfield, Missouri. Alden was born July 3, 1924, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Walter Thompson Brooks and Ethel (West) Brooks. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1946. While at Purdue, he met his future wife, Dolores "Dee" Blake. Upon graduation, Alden took a job with...
Vance Eugene Lewis
Dec 15, 2010
Vance Eugene Lewis, 76 of Springfield, Missouri passed away on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 in St. John's Hospital. He was born on April 2, 1934 in Benkelman, Neb. to Jerome Burton Lewis and Fern Marie (Ketler) Lewis. He was delivered by his grandfather, Dr. Hiram Nelson Lewis. He retired from the United States Army Provocy as Sgt. 1st Class having...
Hugh Nelson Walpole
Dec 13, 2010
A man with a multitude of friends, Hugh Nelson Walpole died December 13, 2010, in his home in Springfield, Mo., a cancer victim at the age of 62. Born in Chicago, he was the only child of Sherlu Rardin Walpole and his father Hugh R. Walpole, then a University of Chicago professor. He taught his son to read at age...
William Norman Bunselmeyer
Dec 13, 2010
William Norman Bunselmeyer, known as Bill to friends and family, passed away peacefully at the age of 84 on December 13, 2010. Bill was born in Allenton, Missouri to Henry and Edna Bunselmeyer on August 4, 1926. Henry was employed with the Frisco railroad and Bill spent his youth living in several Missouri towns finally settling in Marshfield where Bill...
Zenobia R. Pedneault
Dec 12, 2010
Zenobia "Billie" R. Pedneault, 91, Springfield, Mo., passed away December 12, 2010. She was born October 16, 1919 in Newark, Ark. to Elmer and Pearl Rawlings. Billie was united in marriage to Henry R. Pedneault July 21, 1945 in Miami, Fla. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, and a son, Henry R. Pedneault, Jr. Billie is survived...
Lawrence E. Freeman
Dec 11, 2010
Lawrence E. (Larry) Freeman, 71, died in St. John's Hospital in Springfield on Saturday, December 11, 2010, from complications of lung cancer. Larry was born April 20, 1939, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to E.S. and Mattie Freeman. As a Colorado Native, he loved the mountains. He moved with his parents back to their home state of Missouri as a child...
