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Del Charles Woods
Aug 15, 2017
Del Charles Woods, son of the late Wesley Charles and Lois (Saladin) Woods, was born September 8, 1936, in Boise, Idaho, and departed this life August 15, 2017, at Cox Health in Springfield, Missouri. He was 80 years, 11 months, and 7 days of age. Del’s mother, Lois, and her family were raised in the Mountain Grove area. Del spent...
Judy Ann (Volner) Richmond
Aug 11, 2017
Judy Ann (Volner) Richmond, daughter of the late Lon Harvey and Delcie Mae (Skaggs) Volner, was born May 3, 1949 in Burlington Junction, Missouri, and departed this life August 11, 2017 at her home in Doniphan, Missouri. She was 68 years, 3 months, and 8 days of age. Judy grew up around the Murr community near Mountain Grove, Missouri, and...
Garnett Kelly
Aug 5, 2017
Garnett Allen Kelly, son of the late Claude and Edna (Hutsell) Kelly, was born on July 23, 1924 in Macomb, Missouri, and passed from this life August 5, 2017 in Springfield, Missouri. He was 93 years and 13 days of age. Garnett grew up on the family farm in Douglas County with his sister and brothers, Geneva, Virgil, Mason, and...
Theodora Parker
Aug 3, 2017
Theodora Carolyn (Trandahl) Parker was born on February 26, 1930, in Echo, Minnesota, to Irvin and Irma (Rikke) Trandahl and passed away on August 3, 2017, in Cabool, Missouri. She was 87 years, 5 months, and 8 days of age. Theodora lived in Minnesota until the age of 11 when she moved to California with her parents and siblings in...
Tony Kuhn
Aug 2, 2017
Tony Kuhn, son of the late Johnn and Maria (Nitsch) Kuhn, was born March 18, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois and passed away August 2, 2017 at his home in Mountain Grove, Missouri. He was 54 years, 4 months, and 25 days of age. Tony moved to Wright County, Missouri, at the age of 15. He worked at Hutchen’s Industries for...
John Paul Karvonen
Jul 29, 2017
John Paul Karvonen, son of Daniel and Audrey Hankins, was born July 11, 1967 in Warwick, Rhode Island, and departed this life July 29, 2017, after suffering a massive stroke. He was 50 years and 18 days of age. John attended school in Rhode Island and then moved around, as the son of a military step-dad, to Germany, Florida, Alabama,...
Gaylord Benjamin Dake
Jul 29, 2017
Gaylord Dake, 92, Mountain Grove, MO passed away Saturday, July 29, 2017 at his home in Mountain Grove surrounded by his family. Gaylord was born in Mountain Grove, MO on April 24, 1925, to Benjamin Hubbard Dake and Dorothy Elizabeth Dake (Lupton). He graduated from Mountain Grove High School in 1943 and shortly thereafter, on July 31, became a U.S....
Pearl Moore
Jul 27, 2017
Pearl Moore, daughter of the late Joseph and Lucy (Adams) Hayes, was born February 28, 1930, near Manes, Missouri, and entered into heavenly rest July 27, 2017, in Springfield, Missouri. She was 87 years, 4 months, and 29 days of age. Pearl was united in marriage to Delmas William Moore on July 28, 1945, in Tulare, California. Three children were...
Wilma Fay Ellis
Jul 25, 2017
Wilma Fay Ellis, daughter of the late James Edward and Lillie Almeda (Mings) Carder, was born April 25, 1940, and departed this life July 25, 2017, at Autumn Oaks Caring Center in Mountain Grove, Missouri. She was 77 years, 3 months, and 21 days of age. Wilma was born and raised north of Mountain Grove. She graduated from Mountain Grove...
Lois Reed
Jul 23, 2017
Effie "Lois" Reed, daughter of the late Noble E. and Erma H. (Johnson) Rogers, was born on March 6, 1932 in Texas County, Missouri on their home place and departed this earthly home on July 23, 2017 in the Mercy Hospital, Springfield, Missouri. She was 85 years, 4 months, and 17 days of age. Lois grew up in Texas County...
Cynthia L. Behm
Jul 21, 2017
Cynthia (Cindy) Leeattis Behm, 48, of Mountain Grove, passed away Friday, July 21, 2017, in Clarksville, Tennessee. She was born on March 31, 1969, in Peoria, Illinois. Cindy is survived by her husband, Ernest Behm, of 27 years, her 3 children, Rebecca Soares (David) of North Dakota, Devan Fullington of Mountain Grove, and E.J. Behm of Mississippi, her 3 grandchildren,...
Rodney Truman Smith
Jul 20, 2017
Rodney Truman Smith, son of the late George and Melba (Helms) Smith, was born May 26, 1945, in Sullivan, Missouri, and departed this life July 20, 2017, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. He was 72 years, 1 month, and 25 days of age. Growing up, Rodney’s family moved around Missouri, but spent most of their time in Herculaneum, Missouri, and Sullivan,...
Myrtle Nellie Mueller
Jul 19, 2017
Myrtle Nellie Mueller, daughter of the late Milton T. and Winnie Jane (Carlton) Purgeson, was born April 1, 1917 in Wright County, Missouri, and departed this life July 19, 2017 at Autumns Oaks Caring Center in Mountain Grove, Missouri. She was 100 years, 3 months, and 18 days of age. Myrtle had lived in the Mountain Valley/Morning Sun community since...
J.D. Mitchell
Jul 17, 2017
J.D. Mitchell, son of the late Walter James, Jr. and Erica Telisha (Fletcher) Mitchell, was born March 28, 1935, in Norwood, Missouri, and departed this life July 17, 2017 at Cox Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. He was 82 years, 3 months, and 20 days of age. J.D. was born on his grandfather Fletcher’s farm on E Highway, across the road...
Carl Ray Steffey
Jul 17, 2017
Carl Ray Steffey, son of the late Don Carl and Ora Edna (McCoy) Steffey, was born June 8, 1934 in Llano, Texas, and passed away July 17, 2017 in Springfield, Missouri. He was 83 years, 1 month, and 10 days of age. Carl grew up in the Llano and Burnette, Texas area and graduated from Burnette High School. He served...
Lois Evelyn Dugger
Jul 15, 2017
Lois Evelyn Dugger, daughter of the late Archie and Jewell (Moore) Gann, was born December 25, 1928, in Wright County, Missouri, and departed this life July 15, 2017, at her home in Mountain Grove, Missouri. She was 88 years, 6 months, and 20 days of age. Lois was raised in Wright County and attended school in Hartville, Missouri, in a...
Irene G. Cope
Jul 13, 2017
Irene Geneva (McCulley) Cope, daughter of the late Charley and Vergie (Floyd) McCulley, was born February 10, 1933 in Seymour, Missouri and departed this life July 13, 2017 in Bolivar, Missouri. She was 84 years, 5 months, and 3 days of age. Irene grew up and attended school in Hartville, Missouri. She was united in marriage to Lavern Cope on...
Freida Mae Woodard
Jul 10, 2017
Freida Mae Woodard, daughter of the late Leslie and Anna (Killian) Hendrickson, was born May 19, 1933 in Randles, Missouri, and departed this life July 10, 2017 in Autumn Oaks Caring Center in Mountain Grove, Missouri. She was 84 years, 1 month, and 21 days of age. She was born and raised in Randles, Missouri, and later moved with her...
Johnathan Atkisson
Jul 4, 2017
Johnathan Blaine Maxwell Atkisson was born September 30, 1977 in Fairbanks, Alaska, and departed this life July 4, 2017 in Mountain Grove, Missouri, at 39 years of age. Growing up in Alaska, Johnathan’s childhood summers were spent canoeing, swimming, fishing and riding bikes while the winter meant sledding, building snow forts with his brothers and board games when it was...
Agnes Ellen Fredrickson
Jul 1, 2017
Agnes Ellen Fredrickson, daughter of the late Don and Elizabeth (Abbuhl) Boardman, was born February 20, 1920 in Rome, New York, and passed away July 1, 2017 in Mountain Grove, Missouri, at the age of 97 years. Agnes was raised and attended school in the Rome area, and graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She was united in...
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