Brian Peter Linton Bennoch
Jun 21, 2009
Brian Peter Linton Bennoch, 65, Springfield, passed away June 21, 2009 in his home. He was born July 10, 1943 in Enniskillen, Ireland, the son of Alexander McQueen and Isabella Linton McIlree Bennoch. Brian grew up in Fivemiletown Northern Ireland. He emigrated to the U.S. in March 1991 and proudly gained his citizenship in 1997. Brian was an employee at...
Jaunita J. Smoot
Jun 20, 2009
Jaunita June Smoot, 88 of Springfield, Missouri passed away at 6:04 PM Saturday, June 20, 2009 in St. John's Hospital in the company of her family. Jaunita was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who will be greatly missed. She grew up in Sapulpa, Oklahoma and was half Creek Indian, she was very proud of her Indian heritage. Jaunita...
Charles Edward Taplin
Jun 15, 2009
After a courageous fight with cancer, Charles Taplin, 82, passed away peacefully June 15, in his home, surrounded by his wife and children. He was born in Farmington, Missouri on October 7, 1926, and grew up in Flat River, Missouri. He learned a strong work ethic at an early age while working in restaurants owned by his father and older...
Alice A. Wendt
Jun 15, 2009
Alice A. Wendt, 81, of Springfield, Missouri, passed away Monday, June 15, 2009, after a long illness. She was born on July 14, 1927, to Albion and Susie (Bartee) House in Dallas County, Mo. She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers; and sisters; husband, William G. "Bill" Wendt; and a special friend, Ray Doss. Alice was an active...
Jessie Elizabeth Underwood
Jun 15, 2009
Elizabeth "Betty" C. Underwood, 78, of Springfield, Mo., passed away Monday, June 15, 2009, after a lengthy illness. Born June 22, 1930 in Mammoth Spring, Ark.;, to Jess William Carroll and Annie Pearl Glenn, she lost her only sibling and older brother, William, when he was an infant, to meningitis. The family moved from the small, Ozark community to Thayer,...
Doris Ann Garrison
Jun 13, 2009
Doris Clark Garrison, age 80, died June 13, following a brief illness. Born in Wichita, Kansas, on January 25, 1929, Doris was a twin daughter of Schuyler E. and Maude Clark. In 1935, the family moved to Kansas City, Mo., where Doris attended elementary school, Southeast High School, and Kansas City Mo. Junior College. She graduated from the School of...
Colonel John Clites Brink (Ret.)
Jun 11, 2009
John Clites Brink passed away June 11, 2009, at Ozark Community Hospital. He had been an active member of Second Baptist Church. He grew up in Western Oklahoma and graduated from Oklahoma A&M, now, Oklahoma State University, in May 1941. Colonel John Brink was born January 15, 1920 in Des Moines, New Mexico, and was commissioned in the United States...
Sarah E. Harris
Jun 10, 2009
Sarah Elizabeth Harris, 89, Springfield, Missouri passed Wednesday June 10, 2009 in The Manor at Elfindale. Sarah was born December 21, 1919 in Springfield to Dell and Mary (Patterson) Harris. She retired in 1982 after 32 years of service from Cites Service Oil Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma where she had held several positions the last being an Office Administrator. Sarah...
Wilbur C. Willis
Jun 9, 2009
Wilbur C. Willis passed away on June 9, 2009 at Cox South Hospital. He was born and raised in Seattle, WA. Following more than five years of military service in the U.S. Army during World War II, he moved to Springfield, MO in 1946 where he owned and operated Willis Jewelry until retiring in 1977. He was a member of...
Lorraine Ruth Bartelt
Jun 6, 2009
Lorraine R. Bartelt, nee Marting, died June 6, 2009, in Mount Vernon, Missouri Veteran's Home. Lorraine was born April 7, 1919, in St. Louis, Missouri to Lillian Bradford Marting and Daniel G. Marting. As an infant, she was baptized into the Evangelical Lutheran Church and confirmed that baptism in her teens. She lived that faith until the Lord said: "Come...
Lu Ann Mosher
Jun 5, 2009
LuAnn Mosher was born in Kansas City, Missouri on June 8, 1926 and died June 5, 2009 at Cox Medical Center South. LuAnn graduated form the University of Kansas with a BA in history, the top woman in her class and received a Masters Degree in education from the University of Missouri. She spent more than twenty years with the...
Carolyn Susie Forsythe
Jun 5, 2009
Carolyn Sue "Susie" Forsythe, age 77, of Springfield, passed away at 1:10 p.m. Friday, June 5, 2009, in St. John's Regional Health Center. Susie was born in Springfield on October 22, 1931, to Robert and Lottie Burns. She was a graduate of Springfield Senior High Class of 1949, and attended MSU where she was a member of Sigma Sigma Simga...
Edward Joseph Krischel
Jun 4, 2009
Edward Krischel was born to Rosa Anna and William Henry Krischel on April 11, 1917, in Springfield, Missouri. He attended St. Agnes High School and later the University of Denver where he received a Masters Degree in Accounting. He served 40 months overseas as an enlisted man with the 27th Division in the Pacific during World War II fighting in...
Doris Miller Stepp King
Jun 4, 2009
Doris Miller Stepp King, 87, Springfield, Mo., died Thursday, June 4, 2009, in Mercy Villa Care Facility. She was born in Douglas County, Mo., on August 14, 1921, to Ernest and Bertha Rogers Miller. The family moved to Wright County in 1927, shere she graduated from Norwood Missouri High School in 1938. She attended Missouri State University (then Southwest Teachers...
Leah Rae Wreath
Jun 4, 2009
Leah Rae Wreath, daughter of Reverend Roger Valentine and Janet Rae House Wreath, was born August 30, 1969 in Albany, Missouri and departed this life June 4, 2009, at her apartment in Springfield at the age of 39 years 10 months. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, John and Lena Wreath of Bolivar; and Franklin and Maxine House...
Maxine Jane Compton
Jun 4, 2009
Maxine Jane Graves Compton of Springfield, age 95, passed away at 7:15 p.m., June 4, in Christian Health Care East. Maxine, daughter of Charley and Maudina Radley Graves, was born in Everton, Mo., May 22, 1914, the sixth of eight children. She and Duane M. Compton were married September 1, 1934, and celebrated 61 years of marriage until his death...
Barbara A. Morgan
Jun 3, 2009
Barbara Ann Morgan, 60, Springfield, Missouri passed away at 12:57 p.m. Wednesday, June 3, 2009 in St. John's. She was born in Caldwell, Idaho on August 18, 1948, the daughter of Harold and Bessie (Perryman) Ledbetter. She grew up in Missouri and Oklahoma. She married Charles "Fred" Morgan on September 18, 1969 in Cardin, Oklahoma and moved shortly after to...
