Obituaries

May 5, 2021

Glen "Dale" Laske, Jr. 79, of Palmyra, Missouri formerly of Hurdland, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, May 5, 2021, at the Hannibal Regional Hospital in Hannibal, Missouri. Dale was born on September 13, 1941, in Novinger, Missouri, the son of Glen Dale Sr. and Christine Skender Laske. He graduated in 1959 from Kirksville High School. On August 20, 1960 he married...

May 3, 2021

Danny Austin Garrett, 56, of Gorin, Missouri, passed away Monday, May 3, 2021, at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa following a motorcycle accident.

He was born on April 16, 1965, in Moline, Illinois, the son of Larry Eugene and Charlotte Ruth Kraus Garrett.

He attended school and graduated from the Rockridge...

Apr 26, 2021

Everlee RyAnn Zimmerman, 17 Month Old, passed away Monday, April 26, 2021, at the St. Louis Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, surrounded by family. She has forever won her battle with Muscle Eye Brain disease and leaky SCID.

Everlee was born on November 21, 2019, in St. Louis, Missouri the daughter of...

Apr 22, 2021

Charles Frederick Adams, 88, of Gorin, Missouri, passed away at his home on April 22, 2021.

He was born on February 25, 1933, near Arbela, Missouri, the Lawn Ridge Area, the son of Roy Clark and Hallie Beard Adams.

Charles served his country in the United States Army, during...

Mar 16, 2021

Georgia Elenor Couch, 88, of Memphis, Missouri, passed away Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at the Knox County Nursing Home in Edina, Missouri.

She was born on March 13, 1933, in Downing, Missouri, the daughter of James Richard and Kitty Belle Peterson Couch.

Georgie graduated from the Memphis High School in the Class of 1951. She...

Mar 14, 2021

Marcus LaRay Weaver, age 26 of Knox City, Missouri, passed away Sunday, March 14, 2021, at the Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois. He was born on July 5, 1994, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, the son of John M. and Helen Derstine Weaver. Marcus moved with his family to Northeast Missouri in 2009 and was a member of the Oak View...

Mar 1, 2021

Oren Stanley Erickson, 82, of Rutledge, Missouri, passed away Monday, March 01, 2021, at the Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois.

He was born on December 28, 1938, in Gorin, Missouri, the son of Everett Elias and Vivian Lorene Scifers Erickson.

Oren graduated from the Gorin High School in the Class of 1957.

On...

Feb 23, 2021

Micheal Scott Sanders, 62, of Plevna, Missouri, passed away Tuesday, February 23, 2021, at the Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville, Missouri. Mike was born on September 11, 1958, in Mesa, Arizona, the son of Raymond and LaQuetta Gipson Leuthauser. He graduated from the Pacifica High School of Garden Grove, California, in the Class of 1976. On May 28, 1977,...

Feb 23, 2021

Don Edward Ewing died peacefully in his sleep February 23, 2021 at home in Lecanto, Florida. Born in Rutledge Missouri, July 30, 1921, to John T. Ewing and Carrie Tull Ewing Don's lifelong sense of reality and clear-eyed approach to the world was born on an ancestral working farm. Don was known to those around him as a steadfast...

Feb 20, 2021

Everett "Grant" Parsons, 97, of Kirksville, Missouri formerly of a farm south of Edina, Missouri, passed away Saturday, February 20, 2021, at the Life Care Center in Brookfield, Missouri. Grant was born on October 9, 1923, in Newark, Missouri, the son of William Everett and Ethel Pauline Hall Parsons. He attended rural school at Plevna, Missouri and graduated from the...

Feb 17, 2021

Dorothy Elizabeth Delaney, 89, of Kirksville, formerly of Baring, Missouri, passed away Tuesday, February 17, 2021, at the Knox County Nursing Home in Edina, Missouri. Dorothy was born on May 23, 1931, in Rutledge, Missouri to Alex Clinton and Leona Mae McAlister Snyder; moving to Baring after the death of her father where her mother began working as telephone operator...

Jan 16, 2021

Kimbria Skye Burkholder, age 2 ½ years, passed away peacefully in her mother's arms at 9:18 p.m. on January 16, 2021, at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Columbia, Missouri. The precious daughter of Jeffrey and Leann Burkholder, she was born on July 5, 2018 at Kirksville, Missouri. At the age of four months, she was diagnosed with I-cell disease,...

Jan 16, 2021

Rev. David Lee Howald, 75 of Edina, passed away at Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois, on January 16, 2021. David was born December 21, 1945, to the late John R. and Betty Jo (Rubison) Howald of Center, Missouri. David grew up on a farm near Huntington, Missouri, then later moved to Palmyra Missouri. He attended rural Gentry school and Palmyra...

Dec 15, 2020

Berna "Beth" Primm, 76, of Novelty, Missouri, passed away Tuesday, December 15, 2020, at the Boone Hospital Center in Columbia, Missouri. Beth was born on February 13, 1944, in Macon, Missouri, the daughter of Bernard and Bernice McConnel Frazee. She graduated from the Novelty High School in the Class of 1962, and continued her education with Northeast Missouri State Teachers...

Dec 14, 2020

John Earl Funk, 63, of Jefferson City, Missouri, passed away Monday, December 14, 2020 at the Capital Regional Medical Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. John was born on August 30, 1957, in Kirksville, Missouri, the son of Vernon Francis Jr. and Dorothy Estella Bowen Funk. He was raised in Hurdland, Missouri and graduated from the Knox County High School, in...

Dec 9, 2020

Douglas Wayne "Doug" Freburg, 65, of rural Memphis, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, due to complications from COVID-19.

He was born on July 21, 1955 in Macomb, Illinois, the son of James Nelson "Pete" and...

Dec 4, 2020

Leonard J. Stanek, 86, of Baring, Missouri, passed away Friday, December 4, 2020 at the Scotland County Care Center in Memphis, Missouri. Leonard was born on July 8, 1934, in Shelby, Nebraska the son of Joseph and Agnes M. Kastl Stanek. His family moved around a lot to find work but Leonard graduated from the Fox Rural School north of...

Nov 23, 2020

John William Sparks, 57, of Hurdland, Missouri, passed away at his home southwest of Hurdland, Missouri. John was born on July 6, 1963, in Kirksville, Missouri, the son of Sam Ellis and Jennie Sue Jacoby Sparks. He attended Knox County High School, graduating in the Class of 1981. He attended Northeast Missouri State University in Kirksville, Missouri before earning a...

Nov 22, 2020

Wanda Joan Shannan, 72, of Memphis, Missouri, passed away Sunday, November 22, 2020, at the Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois.

Wanda was born on August 1, 1948, in Ottumwa, Iowa, the daughter of Forrest W. and Elizabeth O. Miller Shelley.

On May 14, 1966, at the Christian Church in...

Nov 8, 2020

Mary Ann Priester, 71, of Bloomfield, Iowa, died at her home on Sunday, November 8, 2020.

She was born March 10, 1949, at Ottumwa, Iowa, the daughter of Frank Roy and Bertha Matilda (Lagerstrom) Maxwell.  She attended school in Ottumwa, graduating from Ottumwa High School in 1967 and Iowa Technical School in 1968.

Mary Ann...