Obituaries

Recent Obituaries from Edina, Missouri

Keeley Strange Harsell

Keeley Strange Harsell

Mar 30, 2020

Keeley Harsell, 22, of Edina, Missouri, passed away Monday morning at the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia, Missouri. She was born on May 26, 1997, in Kirksville, Missouri, the daughter of Kirk and Marty Strange. Keeley attended the Knox County Elementary and High School, graduating in the Class of 2015. On June 24, 2017, at the Bee Ridge Methodist...

Lawrence Schroeder

Lawrence Schroeder

Feb 24, 2020

Lawrence George Schroeder, 90, of Edina, Missouri, passed away Monday, February 24, 2020, at the LaBelle Manor in LaBelle, Missouri. Lawrence was born on September 12, 1929, in Shady Oak, Iowa, the son of George Joseph and Mary Catherine Farber Schroeder. His family moved to a farm southeast of Edina, Missouri, at the age of seven, and he attended a...

Freda Pauline Witt

Freda Pauline Witt

Feb 17, 2020

Freda Pauline Witt, 69, of Edina, Missouri, passed away Monday, February 17, 2020, at her home west of Edina, Missouri. Freda was born on June 18, 1950, in Fairfield, Iowa, the daughter of Paul Lenard and Esther Irene Pearson Witt. She began her education in Michigan before graduating from the Fairfield High School, as Valedictorian, in the Class of 1968....

Ivalee Pearl Crawford

Ivalee Pearl Crawford

Feb 14, 2020

Ivalee Pearl Crawford, 98, of Columbia, Missouri, formerly of Memphis, Missouri, passed away Friday, February 14, 2020, at home in Columbia, Missouri.

She was born January 17, 1922, the daughter of Elbert and Pearl Mae Winn Whittom, in their farm home south of Downing, Missouri.

Ivalee attended Grade School and High School, in Downing, Missouri,...

David Sears

David Sears

Feb 13, 2020

David Eugene Sears, 63, of Moberly, Missouri, passed away Thursday, February 13, 2020 at the Valley View Care Center in Moberly, Missouri. David was born on July 15, 1956, in Rock Falls, Illinois, the son of Leslie Melvord and Shirley Jean Morris Sears. David attended school in Rock Falls, Illinois and Huntsville, Missouri. He worked construction and maintenance for the...

Debbie Vangrinsven

Debbie Vangrinsven

Feb 1, 2020

Debbie Darlene Vangrinsven, 52, of Eugene, Missouri passed away Saturday, February 1, 2020, at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. She was born on February 14, 1967, in Kirksville, Missouri, the daughter of Richard and Doris Lambert Nelson. She graduated from the Scotland County High School in Memphis, Missouri, in the Class of 1986. Currently she owns and operates...

Leah Zimmerman

Leah Zimmerman

Jan 30, 2020

Leah H. Zimmerman, 84, of Rutledge, Missouri, passed away at her home on Thursday, January 30, 2020, two months after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. She was born on January 7, 1936, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Henry W. and Leah Horning Martin. On November 23, 1957 Leah married Levi N. Zimmerman and they lived in Lebanon...

Charles E. Alexander Jr.

Charles E. Alexander Jr.

Jan 22, 2020

Charles Edgar Alexander Jr., 98, of Memphis, Missouri passed away Wednesday, January 22, 2020, at the Scotland County Care Center in Memphis, Missouri.

Charles was born on February 7, 1921, in Rural Davis County, Iowa, the son of Charles Edgar and Dora Belle Duckworth Alexander.

He attended one room country schools in both Schuyler and...

Louise Harris

Louise Harris

Jan 21, 2020

Helen Louise Harris, 73, of Memphis, Missouri, passed away Tuesday, January 21, 2020, at the Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, Missouri.

Louise was born on May 4, 1946, in Ft. Madison, Iowa, the daughter of Wilber Earl and Edith Mildred McCoy Daniels.

She graduated from the Gorin High School...

Gary Lee Cunningham

Gary Lee Cunningham

Jan 11, 2020

Gary Lee Cunningham, 65, of Memphis, Missouri, passed away at his residence, on Saturday, January 11, 2020.

Gary was born in Keosauqua, Iowa, on April 25, 1954, the son of Clarence Ray and Marilyn Cortum Cunningham.

He lived most of his life in Memphis, Missouri and attended the Memphis...

Shirley Stevenson

Shirley Stevenson

Jan 4, 2020

Shirley Jean Stevenson, 88, of Kansas City, Missouri, formerly of Edina, Missouri, passed away January 4, 2020, surrounded by her six children, their spouses, a few grandchildren and her lifelong best friend by her side. Shirley was born on May 11, 1931, in Brookfield, Missouri, the daughter of Eugene and Carmen "Marjorie" Roloff Bagley. She attended the Brookfield Immaculate Conception...

Lyndon Ramer

Lyndon Ramer

Jan 4, 2020

Lyndon Brice Ramer, age 5 month months and 29 days, of Milton, Iowa, passed away Saturday morning, January 4, 2020, at his parent's home. The infant son of Daniel and Luann Ramer, he was born on July 6, 2019 at his home in Milton, Iowa. He was born with a heart defect and spent the first three weeks in the...

Jimmy Scott

Jimmy Scott

Dec 28, 2019

James Melvin "Jimmy" Scott, 75, of rural Edina, Missouri, passed away Friday, December 27, 2019, at the Veterans Hospital in Columbia, Missouri. Jimmy was born on September 17, 1944, near Rutledge, Missouri, the son of Melvin Leland "Sam" and Relta Cavell Miller Scott. He lived on a farm near Rutledge, Missouri before moving, with his parents, to the present farm...

Leslie "Les"  Saddler

Leslie "Les" Saddler

Nov 16, 2019

Leslie William "Les" Saddler, 67, of Kansas City, Missouri, passed away Saturday, November 16, 2019 at the North Kansas City Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife and daughter by his side. Les bravely struggled with pulmonary fibrosis the last several months. He was born on July 15, 1952, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Harold and Mary...

Frances Ann "Frannie" Holman

Frances Ann "Frannie" Holman

Nov 16, 2019

Frances Ann "Frannie" Holman, 59, of Edina, Missouri, passed away Saturday, November 16, 2019, at the Boone Hospital Center in Columbia, MO, with her family by her side. Frannie was born the daughter of Paul Edward and Cecilia Margret Farley Sharp on May 23, 1960 in Edina, Missouri, and grew up on the family farm near Edina with her sister,...

Romie Kriegshauser

Romie Kriegshauser

Nov 12, 2019

Jerome Fredrick "Romie" Kriegshauser, 91, of Edina, Missouri, passed away at the Knox County Nursing Home in Edina, Missouri, on November 12, 2019. Romie was born on June 18, 1928, in Edina, Missouri, the son of Fredrick Charles and Sadie Margaret Deveny Kriegshauser. He attended the St. Joseph Catholic School through 12 grades, graduating in the Class of 1946. Romie...

Leslie Sheets

Leslie Sheets

Oct 30, 2019

Leslie A. "Les" Sheets, 98, of Edina, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, October 30, 2019, at the Knox County Nursing Home in Edina, Missouri. He was born on August 19, 1921, in Arcadia, Kansas, the son of Wilson Anthony and Emma Pearl Bradberry. Les grew up in Arcadia and Fort Scott, Kansas, where he worked with his dad at the Catholic...

David  Doss

David Doss

Oct 20, 2019

David Lee Doss, 68, of Clifton Hill, MO, passed away October 20, 2019 at Moberly Regional Medical Center. David was born December 23, 1950 in Kirksville, MO to Harvey Doss and Doris Eyler Doss. He was raised in Baring, MO and graduated from Knox County High School in 1968. He was united in marriage to Mary Ann Smith at St....

Ladonna Doran

Ladonna Doran

Oct 13, 2019

LaDonna Fay Doran, 81, of Kirksville, Missouri, formerly of Rutledge, Missouri, passed away Sunday, October 13, 2019, at the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia, Missouri. LaDonna was born on February 15, 1938, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the daughter of Herbert and Juanita Eskridge Washburn. She was raised in the Indianapolis area and after High School she moved to Port Charlotte,...

Lois Irlene Stutsman

Lois Irlene Stutsman

Oct 11, 2019

Lois Arlene Vance Stutsman, 88, Florissant, died Friday October 11, 2019, at Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital, St. Peters, Missouri. She was born July 15, 1931 in Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri, to Clyde Vance and Ethel Vera Bailey Vance. On November 12, 1950, she married John Alexander Stutsman Jr. and he preceded her in death in 2016. In addition to being...

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