Ronald Bruce Obenchain
Feb 9, 2010
Ronald Bruce Obenchain, 49, Springfield, MO passed away Tuesday, February 09, 2010 in St. John's Regional Health Center. Bruce was born June 27, 1960 in Wagoner, OK and grew up in the Kansas City area. He resided and worked in the Springfield area for the last thirteen years and worked as a Lifeguard and Multiple Sclerosis Exercise Instructor in the...
Rex L. Potts
Feb 9, 2010
Rex L. Potts, 87, Springfield, passed away at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 9, 2010 in ManorCare of Springfield, He was born November 2, 1922 in Republic, Missouri. He was united in marriage to Elizabeth Louise (Williams) on February 14, 1943. He was a member of Southminster Presbyterian Church and Veteran of US Coast Guard during World War II. He was...
Alice Bartee
Feb 7, 2010
Dr. Alice Fleetwood Bartee, 71, departed this life on Sunday, February 7, 2010. She was born in Statesboro, Ga. in 1938, the daughter of Roscoe George Fleetwood and Allie Mae Hurst Fleetwood. Her grandfather served as a volunteer in General Lee's Confederate Army during the Civil War. She grew up in Thomasville, Ga. graduating as valedictorian of Thomasville High...
Emily Allen
Feb 6, 2010
Emily Wilcox Allan of Springfield passed away Saturday, February 6, at 5 p.m., in St. Johns Regional Health Center, following complication from surgery. Emily was born in Bolivar, Mo., July 15, 1934 to Thomas M. Shoffner Sr. and Ruth Wilcox Shoffner. She was a member of the graduating class of Central High and loved her classmates, always attending their monthly...
Walter Earl Bradford
Feb 6, 2010
Walter Earl Bradford Sr., 79, Walnut Shade, MO passed away Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010 in South Padre Island, TX. He was born April 1, 1930 in Ponce De Leon, MO to Freddie Earl and Cleo Council Bradford. Earl was saved in 1943 and filled with the Holy Spirit in 1947. He was united in marriage to Oleta Mae Huff on...
Dorothy Trau
Feb 4, 2010
Dorothy Krieger Trau of Springfield, Missouri passed away peacefully on February 4, 2010. She was born on April 5, 1930, in Brooklyn, NY, to Florence Philipbar Krieger and Edwin Charles Krieger. She attended The Woodward School, Packer Collegiate Institute and Cornell University where she belonged to Chi Omega and Kappa Delta Epsilon. She met Frank Garland Trau, Jr. (Cornell '50),...
Michael Thomas Pivac
Feb 3, 2010
Michael Thomas Pivac of Springfield passed away on February 3, 2010 surrounded by his family and friends. Mike was born on August 4, 1958, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Sam and Carol Pivac. He earned his A.B. in History with Honors and his J.D. degrees from the University of Missouri. He moved to Springfield out of law school in 1983...
Joan Philpott
Jan 29, 2010
Joan Philpott, 86, of Ogden, Utah passed away Friday, January 29, 2010 of natural causes at Mountain Ridge Assisted Living. She was born August 2, 1923, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Martha Belle and Roscoe B. Schooling. On October 9, 1945 she married Norris F. Philpott in Tulsa and spent 48 happy years as residents of Springfield, Missouri. She...
Margaret Lorene Lips
Jan 28, 2010
Margaret (Margo) Lorene Lips passed away in her home with friends on January 28th, 2010. Margo was survived by her parents Harold & Lorene, her siblings Michael, Wendy, Harold Jr, Donald, & Victor. She was also survived by her daughter Judy-Marie, son in law Heath & Her adopted family Tammy, & Grandson Luke. Among some of the things she has...
Faith Berg
Jan 28, 2010
Faith Joybelle Berg, 89, of Springfield, went into God's presence January 28, 2010. Joy was born December 13, 1920, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, the youngest of the four daughters of Reuben Sternall, one of the co-founders of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada. Since her father pastored a series of pioneer churches in Ontario, she moved quite a few times in...
Frances Joann Ryan
Jan 27, 2010
Frances Joann Ryan passed away peacefully on January 27, 2010, surrounded by family. She was born on April 19, 1933 in Niangua, MO to Harvey Lee and Ancel Jessie Alexander. She was a longtime Springfield resident. Joann was a lifetime educator, beginning at Northview School in 1951 at the age of 18. She taught kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and...
Bill Joyner
Jan 26, 2010
Frederick William "Bill" Joyner, 71, Springfield, died Tuesday, January 26, in Christian Healthcare West. Bill was a long time Springfield Attorney and avid outdoorsman. He cherished God's great outdoors and requested that upon his death he be cremated and his ashes be scattered in a place that he held dear and that no public services be held.
Leslie June Goodman
Jan 24, 2010
Leslie June Goodman,73, of Springfield passed away at 11:24 p.m. Sunday January 24, 2010 in Cox Medical Center South. Leslie was born June 23, 1936 in Marionville, Missouri to Oscar and Mary Goodman. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He was a plumber and for the past 20 years taught plumbing at Vo-Tech. He...
Bill Eugene White
Jan 22, 2010
Bill Eugene White, 82, was born on July 31, 1927 in Kansas City, Kansas and passed away January 22, 2010 in Hermitage, Missouri. Bill is survived by two brothers, one sister, six children, eighteen grandchildren and twenty-two plus great-grandchildren. Bill was a loving husband to Emma White who passed before him on May 10, 2002. Bill was a simple and...
Jack Gerald Harmon
Jan 21, 2010
Jack Gerald Harmon Jack was born January 5, 1927 in Protection, Kansas to Edward W. and Alice Gaye Tarr Harmon. He was a graduate of Fair Grove High School (1944), Drury University (1949) and earned a MSW degree from Washington University in 1952. He served in the U.S. Navy after high school in the later part of WWII. Jack worked...
Jack Bernard North
Jan 20, 2010
Jack B. North, 91, of Springfield, Mo. passed away on January 20, 2010 in Springfield, Mo. Dr. North was a United Methodist Minister. He served several pastorates in Illinois over a 44-year ministry including churches in Cissna Park, El Paso, Peoria, Kankakee, and Champaign and as the Pontiac District Superintendent. Dr. North was Minister Emeritus at Asbury Methodist Church in...
Donald W. Tisdale
Jan 19, 2010
Donald W. "Don" Tisdale, 90, of Springfield passed away Tuesday, January 19, 2010 in The Maples Care Center. Don was born May 7, 1919 in Buckhannon, West Virginia to Wilbur Morton Tisdale and Anna Paisley Tisdale. He was a 1937 graduate of Springfield Senior High and a 1941 graduate of Missouri State University. After teaching school for a year in...
