Obituaries

Mar 17, 2015

Edna Mae Garnett, 77, of Memphis, Missouri, died March 17, 2015, at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia, Missouri. She was born March 15, 1938, in Lewis County, Missouri, to Leroy and Helen (Wilsey) Rice. Edna attended Leonard High School at Leonard, Missouri and was a graduate of the class of 1956. She married James Elmer Garnett on June 16, 1956,...

Mar 10, 2015

Deloris Jean Boyer, 85, of Memphis, Missouri, died Tuesday evening, March 10, 2015, at the Scotland County Hospital in Memphis. She was born May 8, 1929, in Revere, Missouri, to Golden Leo and Laura Beatrice (Webb) Christian. Deloris grew up in the Revere area and completed the tenth grade. As a young girl she played basketball. She married Okie Daniel...

Mar 9, 2015

Patsy Marie Wand, 77, of Edina, Missouri, passed away peacefully in the comfort of her home among family and friends on March 9, 2015.

Born on September 16, 1937 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Patsy was the eldest child of Floyd Folk and Ina Fern Miller.  Her formative years were spent on the family farm in...

Mar 3, 2015

Frances “Georgena” Hayes, 92, of Edina, Missouri, passed away Tuesday, March 3, 2015, at the Knox County Nursing Home in Edina, Missouri.

Georgena was born on February 15, 1923, north of Canton, Missouri, the daughter of John Herman and Elsa Abney...

Mar 1, 2015

Opal Irene Dalton, 94, of Memphis, Missouri, died Sunday, March 1, 2015, at the Scotland County Hospital in Memphis. She was born September 30, 1920, in Schuyler County, Missouri, to Ernest Edward and Odessa M. (Elschlager) Aldridge. Irene attended school in Downing, Missouri, for several years and then at the Elm Grove School in rural Schuyler County. She married Delbert...

Feb 26, 2015

Loweldene Fincher, 88, of Memphis, Missouri and formerly of Downing, Missouri, died Thursday, February 26, 2015, at the Scotland County Care Center in Memphis. He was born November 18, 1926, at Downing, Missouri, to John William and Ruby Leone (Presser) Fincher. He grew up in Downing and attended Downing High School, graduating with the class of 1944. He enlisted in...

Feb 23, 2015

Mary V. Doll, 91, of Bloomfield, Iowa, died Monday, February 23, 2015, at the Bloomfield Care Center in Bloomfield. She was born June 23, 1923, in Davis County, Iowa, to Jesse Cleveland and Dora Lee (Bradbury) Gordy. She graduated from Bloomfield High School, Class of 1941. Mary married Russell Francis Doll on March 23, 1941 at Kirksville, Missouri and to...

Feb 16, 2015

Barbara A. Simmons, 78, of Edina, Missouri, formerly of Newark, Missouri, passed away Monday, February 16, 2015, at the Knox County Nursing Home in Edina, Missouri.

Barbara was born on December 21, 1936, near Newburg, Iowa, the daughter of Carl Eugene and Edith Elzina Hanson...

Feb 10, 2015

Mary Alice Funk, 83, formerly of rural Hurdland, Missouri, passed away Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at the Kirksville Manor Care Center in Kirksville, Missouri.

Mary Alice was born in Hurdland, Missouri on September 18, 1931, the daughter of Joseph Clark and Ada Myrtle Keisow Parrish.

She attended school in Hurdland, Missouri and graduated...

Feb 3, 2015

Shirlene Kay Chancellor, 63, of Rutledge, Missouri, passed away Monday, February 3, 2015 at the Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, Missouri. Shirlene was born on August 12, 1951 at the Gibson Hospital in Edina, Missouri, the daughter of Manly “Junior” and Betty Jo Barnes Golden. She attended school in Colony, Missouri before graduating from the Knox County High...

Jan 30, 2015

Kathie Mae Thrasher, 61, of Memphis, Missouri, died Friday, January 30, 2015, at the Scotland County Hospital in Memphis. She was born January 15, 1954, at Edina, Missouri, to Kenneth Earl and Margie Corinne (Spray) Thrasher. She was a Scotland County RI graduate, Class of 1972. She also attended beauty school in Keokuk, Iowa. Kathie loved to cook. She worked...

Jan 25, 2015

Deloris Barnes, 81, of Mexico, Missouri formerly of Knox County, Missouri, passed away Sunday, January 25, 2015, at the St. Mary’s Hospital in Mexico, Missouri.

She was born on March 4, 1933, in Quincy, Illinois, the daughter of Harold and Gertrude Lohman Schnelle.

Deloris attended Quincy High School, in Quincy, Illinois and...

Jan 23, 2015

Verna B. (Horst) Brubaker, 86, of Rutledge, Missouri went to her reward, January 23, 2015, at her residence near Rutledge, Missouri. (She had a home on the Mark Martin property the past four years.)

Verna was born on October 27, 1928, in Goodville, Pennsylvania, to the late Rufus and Lizzie (Burkholder) Horst.

Jan 19, 2015

Virginia Louise Luciani (nee Gifford) died peacefully in the early afternoon hours of January 19, 2015, at Morningstar Senior Living in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Frank, her husband of 61 years; her daughter Patricia Vitelli; granddaughter Nicole DeHerrera; and a grandson Richard Vitelli were at her bedside as she passed over to join the Lord.

Virginia...

Jan 16, 2015

The Rudicil family invites everyone to share lunch and fellowship following the committal service at the Edina United Methodist Church at 12:30 P.M. George Raymond Rudicil, 78, of Edina, Missouri, died Friday, January 16, 2016, at the Knox County Nursing Home in Edina. He was born January 29, 1936, at Colony, Missouri, to Hiram Roosevelt and Frances Irene (Dailing) Rudicil....

Jan 7, 2015

Mary “Elizabeth” Poore, 84, of Edina, Missouri formerly of Hurdland, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at the Knox County Nursing Home in Edina, Missouri.

Elizabeth was born on November 3, 1930, in Kirksville, Missouri, the daughter of Lee Claude and Mary Roena Prosser Garnett.

She attended the Novelty Schools graduating...

Jan 2, 2015

Patricia Maxine Shelley, 87, of Memphis, Missouri, died Friday, January 2, 2015, at the Scotland County Hospital in Memphis. Patricia was born March 25, 1927, in Azen, Missouri, to Robert Eugene and Martha Amelia Russell Biggs. Patricia attended Clay Point School and completed the eighth grade. She attended Granger High School and left to become a homemaker and then was...

Dec 27, 2014

Paul Herbert "Bud" Burns, 95, of Memphis, Missouri, died Saturday, December 27, 2014, at the Scotland County Care Center in Memphis. Bud was born February 2, 1919, in Schuyler County, Missouri, to Leslie Edwin and Ollie May Casteel Burns. He was raised on a farm near Glenwood, Missouri and attended country schools for eight years. He attended high school in...

Dec 15, 2014

Joy Jean Nicoli, 82, of Memphis, Missouri, passed away Monday, December 15, 2014, at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia, Missouri. She was born July 21, 1932, in Scotland County, Missouri, to Leo Adron and Bessie Jewel Ketchum Cook. Joy was a lifelong resident of Scotland County, Missouri. She attended school in Scotland County and graduated from Memphis High School, Class...

Nov 29, 2014

Erlene B. Kelley, 99, of Edina, Missouri passed away Saturday, November 29, 2014, at the Knox County Nursing Home in Edina, Missouri.

Erlene was born on September 11, 1915, in Shelby County, Missouri, the only child of James Hurley and Sarah Rebecca Green Brown.

She attended the Shelbyville High School graduating from...