Obituaries

Aug 29, 2013

Mary Esther Varner (Evans) Mary Esther Varner (Evans), 95 years-old of Powersville, MO passed away August 29th, 2013 from natural causes at Putnam County Memorial Hospital in Unionville, MO. Mary was born May 29, 1918 in Mercer County, daughter of Soloman Elmer Evans and Fannie Irene (Wells) Evans, she was the youngest of eight daughters and elder to her...

Aug 26, 2013

Samuel (Sam) L. Lesseig Samuel (Sam) L. Lesseig of Kirksville, Mo passed away Monday, August 26, 2013. He was born January 19, 1939 at Great Bend, KS, son of Phil and Ruth Lesseig. He married Delores (Dee) Zerr of Park, Ks. September 2, 1963. He is survived by his wife, Dee and three children, Vance, Corey and Kristin Lesseig,...

Aug 25, 2013

Jarvis Dean Carr, 53 of Kirksville, MO passed away Sunday, August 25, 2013 at his home. Jarvis was born on June 18, 1960 in Anderson, IN the son of Ruben and Pauline (Sanders) Carr. Jarvis is survived by son, Christopher Carr of Bible Grove, MO; brothers, Rick of Edina, MO and Buddy Lyons of Mockville, N.C.; sisters, Dorothy Carr...

Aug 24, 2013

Francis Marion “Bucky” Walter Jr. Francis Marion "Bucky" Walter, Jr. who served as Dean of Students at the Kirksville college of Osteopathic Medicine (now a part of A. T. Still University of the Health Sciences) for over 30 years died on August 24, 2013. Born in Putnam County at Mendota, Missouri on March 5, 1922, he was the son...

Aug 20, 2013

Charlotte Colleen Schrage

Charlotte Colleen Schrage of Brashear, passed away Tuesday August 20, 2013 at the LaPlata Nursing Home.

Colleen was born February 2, 1935 in Kirksville,...

Aug 19, 2013

Michael L. Lockhart

Michael L. Lockhart, 63 of Kirksville passed away Monday (August 19, 2013) at Twin Pines Adult Care Center.

The son of Clarence Leroy and Lorraine (Campbell) Lockhart, he was born July 13, 1950 in Ellsworth, Kansas. On May 23, 1972 in Lawrence,...

Aug 19, 2013

William A. Ramsay Jr. William A. Ramsay Jr., 65 of Kirksville passed away Monday (August 19, 2013). The son of William A. and Ida (Koch) Ramsay, he was born September 18, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. A memorial service will be held at 3:00 p.m. Thursday (August 22, 2013) at Christ's Family Church, 531 N. Baltimore, Kirksville.

Aug 18, 2013

Carrol Hamilton, 69, of Powersville, MO, passed away at the Putnam County Care Center in Unionville, MO, on Sunday, August 18, 2013. She had been a resident there for a short time after a two year battle with cancer. Madelyn Carrol (Thompson) Hamilton was born in Barstow, CA, on August 4, 1944, the daughter of Cleo V. and Wilda...

Aug 17, 2013

Jaunita Detwiler Jaunita I. Detwiler, 86 of Kirksville passed away Saturday (August 17, 2013) at Twin Pines Adult Care Center.   The daughter of William C. and Anna (Mason) Bennett, she was born September 14, 1926 in Kirksville, MO. On September 7, 1946 in Kansas City, MO she was united in marriage to Billy E. Detwiler and he preceded her...

Aug 15, 2013

Agnes Johnette Fleshner, age 76, of Greentop, MO, passed away Thursday, August 15, 2013, at her residence. She was born July 28, 1937, in Adair County, MO, the daughter of John Calvin and Estelle Fisher Pack. She was united in marriage to Darell D. Perry April 7, 1956, in Kirksville, MO and he preceded her in death on June...

Aug 13, 2013

Elfie Zeigler

Elfie Opal Zeigler age 91 of Kirksville passed away Tuesday (August 13, 2013) in Kirksville.

Elfie was born on July 31, 1922 in Western Adair...

Aug 8, 2013

Velma Corrine Aldridge December 23, 1918 – August 8, 2013 Velma Corrine Aldridge, a long-time resident of Brashear, died Thursday, August 8, 2013, in the Loch Haven Nursing Home in Macon. She was 94. Velma was born December 23, 1918, in northwest Knox County, the daughter of Claude Ernest and Maude Edith (McAnulty) Dunn. On April 18, 1946, she...

Aug 5, 2013

Dorothy F. Kittle

Dorothy Faye Kittle, 95 of Greentop passed away Monday (August 5, 2013) at the Schuyler County Nursing Home.

The daughter of Glenn and Zola...

Jul 30, 2013

David A. Gerstley

David Andrew Gerstley, 74 of Kirksville passed away Tuesday (July 30, 2013) at Northeast Regional Medical Center.

The son of Elmer and Anna (Morgan)...

Jul 27, 2013

Matthew Todd Ruggles Matthew Ruggles, 29 of Columbia, Missouri passed away Saturday (July 27, 2013) following a traffic accident in Columbia.

The son of Brian Ruggles and Rhonda Rowland, he was born in Kirksville, Missouri, on June 12, 1984. Matthew is survived by his mother, Rhonda Rowland and Joe Davis of Queen City, MO; his father,...

Jul 27, 2013

Opal Mardell Valentine daughter of Virgil & Tressie (Oakley) Brundage was born January 8, 1928, near West Liberty, MO, and passed away at her home in rural Powersville, MO, where she had resided for the past 51 years on July 27, 2013, at the age of 85. Mardell attended West Liberty, Terre Haute & Lucerne grade schools and graduated...

Jul 26, 2013

Cordelia "Cordie" Sylvester Jungers, age 101 of Kirksville, (formerly Green Castle) passed away Friday, July 26, 2013.

Cordelia Houston was born near Selmer, TN to George and Mozell Houston on February 13, 1912. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, three sisters, a beloved son, William Sylvester, a son-in-law, Duke Moore, & two husbands,...

Jul 18, 2013

Martin Kellison, 84, of Unionville, MO, passed away at the Putnam County Care Center in Unionville, MO, on Thursday, July 18, 2013. He had been a resident there for about nine months. George Martin Kellison was born in Putnam County, MO, on November 24, 1928, the son of Frank and Cora (Brice) Kellison, who preceded him in death. He...

Jul 16, 2013

Trudy Pollock Barnes

Trudy Pollock Barnes age 86, of Centralia, MO and formerly of La Plata, MO passed away Tuesday, July 16, 2013, at the Macon Healthcare Center in Macon, MO.

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Jul 15, 2013

Carl Lee Howard

Carl Lee Howard, of Kirksville, MO, (formerly of Unionville, MO) passed away at the Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville, MO, on Monday, July 15, 2013. He was 86 years of age.

Carl Lee...