Obituaries

Leora Waneta Witt

Leora Waneta Witt

Jun 7, 2015

Leora Waneta Witt Leora Witt, 101 of rural Queen City passed away Sunday, June 7, 2015, in the Boone Hospital in Columbia, Missouri. The daughter of Orley and Daisy (Champ) Brooking she was born on February 2, 1914, in Ridgeville, Indiana. On December 3, 1936, in Ridgeville she was united in marriage to Raymond Witt. She grew up in...

Connor Pogemiller

Connor Pogemiller

Jun 4, 2015

Connor Douglas Pogemiller 22, passed away on the evening of June 4, 2015 in Midland, Texas as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident. He was born November 13, 1992 in Pontiac, Michigan and is the son of Douglas Pogemiller and Robyn Kollar. He attended Kirksville Schools and graduated from Kirksville High School in 2011. He was...

Brenda Sue Ingram

Brenda Sue Ingram

Jun 2, 2015

Brenda Sue Ingram Brenda Sue Ingram, 54 of Kirksville passed away Tuesday June 2, 2015 at the Northeast Regional Medical Center. Brenda was born on August 6, 1960 in Kirksville, MO the daughter of Cryus and Melva (Johnson) Combs. On December 14, 2003 in Kirksville, MO she was united in marriage to Roy Ingram. Brenda is survived by her...

Paul A. Barker

Paul A. Barker

May 29, 2015

Paul A. Barker Paul A. Barker, 98 of Kirksville passed away Friday (May 29, 2015) at the Schuyler County Nursing Home where he had been for one week. Up until that time he had resided at his home east of Kirksville. The son of Herbert W. and Lelah C. (Shockey) Barker, he was born March 1, 1917 in Adair...

Robert "Bob" Barber

Robert "Bob" Barber

May 29, 2015

Robert “Bob” Ervin Barber On the morning of May 29, 2015 Robert “Bob” Ervin Barber passed away at Northeast Regional Hospital in Kirksville Missouri, after a long fight with medical illnesses. Bob was 65 years old. “Bob” was born the son of Johnnie Ervin Barber and Nina Mae Clithero (nee Kniepfel )in Antioch California September 4, 1949. Bob Barber...

Myloure Schubert

Myloure Schubert

May 28, 2015

Myloure Schubert, 98, of Lucerne, MO, passed away at the Corydon Nursing and Rehab Center in Corydon, IA, on Thursday, May 28, 2015. Myloure was born on April 17, 1917, the daughter of John and Cleo (Rogers) Flater, who preceded her in death. Myloure was given her unusual name by an uncle who named her after a racehorse. That...

Lena Ellen Buckallew

Lena Ellen Buckallew

May 25, 2015

Lena Ellen Buckallew Lena (Kamm) Buckallew, 92, of Kirksville, Missouri, and formerly of Lancaster, Missouri, passed away Monday May 25th in the Twin Pines Adult Care Center where she had been a patient since March 25th, 2015. The daughter of Henry and Ida Kamm, she was born in Saginaw Michigan on June 10, 1922. She moved to Ossian, Indiana...

Ronald Bulechek

Ronald Bulechek

May 25, 2015

Ronald Bulechek Ronald Buleckek, 67 of rural Queen City passed away Monday, May 25, 2015, at the Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, MO. The son of Anthony and Doris (Elliott) Bulechek, he was born June 15, 1948, in Ainsworth, IA. On June 11, 1965, in Memphis, MO, he was married to Virginia Sue Humphrey and to this marriage three...

Donald Sparks

Donald Sparks

May 16, 2015

Donald J. Sparks Donald Sparks, 84, of Kirksville, formerly of Queen City, passed away Saturday (May 16, 2015) in the Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville. The son of William and Fannie (Gillespie) Sparks, he was born May 17, 1930 in Greentop, MO. In 1948 he married Marie Conner in Lancaster, MO and to this union two sons were...

Emma Lou Hays

Emma Lou Hays

May 14, 2015

Emma Lou Hays Emma Lou Hays, 79, of Kirksville, Missouri passed away Thursday, May 14, 2015. The daughter of Marvin and Maude Morehead, she was born March 2, 1936 In Kirksville, Missouri. Emma Lou lived in Brashear and attended public schools there and graduated from Brashear High School with the Class of 1953. On July 24, 1953 in Brashear,...

Willadene Brummit

Willadene Brummit

May 14, 2015

Willadene Brummit Willadene Brummit, 88 of Kirksville passed away Thursday (May 14, 2015) at Twin Pines Adult Care Center. The daughter of Virgil McDonald and Bernie Irene (Stidmon) Pickett, she was born June 8, 1926 in Sidney, Missouri. On May 23, 1944 in Kirksville she was united in marriage to John Jasper Brummit and he preceded her in death...

Alice Pittman

Alice Pittman

May 13, 2015

Alice Pittman, 79, of Unionville, MO, passed away at the Putnam County Memorial Hospital in Unionville on Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Alice Lorene Pittman was born in Runnels, IA, on April 22, 1936, the daughter of Orville Garrett and Leatha Levenna (Fisher) Harmison who preceded her in death. She was reared in Runnels until her 8th grade year when...

Mary Pettit

Mary Pettit

May 12, 2015

Mary L. Pettit Mary Leona Pettit, 70 of Kirksville passed away Tuesday (May 12, 2015) at her home. The daughter of Woodrow W. and Bertha A. (Pinkerton) Pettit, she was born October 28, 1944 in Kirksville, MO. She attended Kirksville schools and graduate Kirksville High School. She worked as an LPN at KOMC, the old Laughlin Hospital and Northeast...

Roy Elihu Dorsey

Roy Elihu Dorsey

May 11, 2015

Roy Dorsey Roy Elihu Dorsey, 59, of Clarence, MO, passed away at the University Hospital in Columbia, MO on Monday, May 11, 2015. Roy Dorsey was born on April 4, 1956 in Putnam County, the son of Lyman and Iva (Forkum) Dorsey. Roy was raised in Putnam County and after graduating from the Putnam County High School in 1975...

Velma Lorraine Barkley

Velma Lorraine Barkley

May 7, 2015

Lorraine Barkley Lorraine Barkley, 96, formerly of Lucerne, MO, passed away at Brookdale Senior Care Solutions in Overland Park, KS, on Thursday, May 7, 2015. Velma Lorraine Barkley was born December 5, 1918, to Benjamin Henry Yardley and Delka Marie Pierson Yardley. When she was two months old, her father Henry died during the influenza epidemic. When she was...

Vernon Gillespie

Vernon Gillespie

May 3, 2015

Vernon R. Gillespie Vernon R. Gillespie 74, passed away Sunday, May 3, 2015, at his home in Worthington, Missouri. The son of Ray and Odessa (McKim) Gillespie he was born April 25, 1941 in Putnam County. He grew up in Putnam County and attended the Worthington Elementary School. Vernon is survived by four brothers: Arthur Gillespie, Michael Gillespie and...

George Oakley Brundage

George Oakley Brundage

Apr 25, 2015

George Brundage George Brundage, 90, of Unionville, MO, passed away suddenly at Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton, MO, on Saturday, April 25, 2015, after suffering a stroke. George Oakley Brundage was born south of Lucerne, MO, on February 2, 1925, the son of Virgil Leonard and Tressie Opal (Oakley) Brundage, who preceded him in death. He attended rural schools...

Oda Beall

Oda Beall

Apr 20, 2015

Oda Beall Oda Effadema Blanche Beall, 93 of Queen City passed away Monday (April 20, 2015) at Schuyler County Nursing Home. The daughter of Aaron Grover and Mary Belle (Savage) Followwill, she was born May 4, 1922 in Putnam County. Oda grew up in Putnam County and attended area rural schools. She and her family moved to Cummings, Iowa...

Bob A. Libby

Bob A. Libby

Apr 20, 2015

Robert Atkins Libby Robert Atkins Libby, 76, of Kirksville MO, died unexpectedly in the loving arms of his wife, Kathleen Riley Libby, on April 20, 2015, at their condo in Sugar Camp, Wisconsin. He was born November 25, 1938 in Shelbina, MO to June and Muriel Libby, who predeceased him. Robert was an accomplished analytical chemist, as a research...

Laveta Dorine Garland

Laveta Dorine Garland

Apr 17, 2015

Laveta Garland Laveta Garland, 78, of Powersville, MO, passed away on Friday, April 17, 2015, at the home of her son in Sewal, IA, after a battle with cancer. Laveta Dorine was born in Corydon, IA on December 25, 1936, the daughter of Lloyd D. and Wilma Ava (Stoker) Todd, who preceded her in death. She was reared in...