Obituaries

Opal Coats

Opal Coats

Mar 10, 2015

Opal Mae (Teed) Coats, 94, of Chillicothe, MO passed away Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at Morningside Center in Chillicothe. Opal was born July 10, 1920 in Marion County Missouri, the daughter of William Henry and Flora Belle (Glenn) Teed. On April 18, 1948 Opal married Charles William (Wally) Coats in Kansas City, MO. He preceded her in death on March...

Wesley Millhouse

Wesley Millhouse

Mar 8, 2015

Wesley Leonard “Red” Millhouse, 71, of Chillicothe MO passed away Sunday, March 08, 2015 at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe. Wesley was born June 29, 1943 in Lincoln NE, the son of Leonard Eloy Millhouse and Syble Irene Haggard Millhouse. For 17 years, Wesley worked in the seed division of MFA. He was also a supervisor at Lambert Glove Factory,...

Twilla Wade

Twilla Wade

Feb 18, 2015

Twilla Joy Wade, 75, of Chillicothe, MO passed away Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at Mission Regional Medical Center, Mission Texas. Twilla was born June 27, 1939 in Trenton MO the daughter of Floyd Allen and Viva Elaine Worboys Allen. She graduated from Trenton High School in 1957. On June 30, 1962 Twilla married the love of her life for 52...

Olive Long

Olive Long

Feb 17, 2015

Olive Fern Long, 85, of Chillicothe MO passed away Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe. Fern was born May 15, 1929 in Triplett MO, the daughter of Fred Lindsey Cook and Eva Adeline Davis Cook. She was a graduate of Chillicothe High School. She enjoyed being a homemaker and she also worked for several years as...

Lester Hicks

Lester Hicks

Feb 7, 2015

Lester Leroy Hicks 67, of Chillicothe passed away, Saturday, February 7, 2015 at Mosiac Life Care in St. Joseph, MO. Lester was born June 27, 1947 in Chillicothe MO, the son of Raymond Leroy Hicks and Hazel Harvey Hicks. On September 19, 1982 Lester married Doris Lee Cowee at Simpson Park in Chillicothe. She survives of the home. For several...

Dixie Allnutt

Dixie Allnutt

Jan 30, 2015

Dixie Zita Allnutt, 77, of Chillicothe, MO died Friday, January 30, 2015 at St. Luke’s Hospice House in Kansas City MO. Dixie was born in Chula MO the daughter of Thomas Wayne Mills and Goldie Catherine Hines Mills. She was a homemaker and owned and operated a beauty salon and a car lot and also did house painting & wallpapering...

Eddie Hague

Eddie Hague

Jan 23, 2015

Eddie Harlan Hague, 88 of Chillicothe MO passed away Friday, January 23, 2015 at Livingston Manor in Chillicothe. Eddie Harlan Hague was born January 10, 1927 to Levi A. and Eva Gertrude (McCullough) Hague in Half Rock MO.  He was one of 15 children. In 1945 he entered the United States Army and served in Fort Richardson, Alaska as corporal. September...

Lois Gastineau

Lois Gastineau

Jan 20, 2015

Lois Irene Gastineau, 84, of Chillicothe MO, died on Tuesday, January 20, 2015. She was born January 17, 1931 in Mooresville MO, the daughter of Henry Lloyd and Nellie Phoebe Fryer. Lois graduated from Chillicothe High School and soon afterwards married Lloyd Vernon Gastineau. She worked for Southwestern Bell for many years and raised four children. Later, she worked in...

Vyvyan Heekin Butts

Vyvyan Heekin Butts

Jan 16, 2015

On January 16, 2015 Vyvyan Dice Heekin Butts, of Sacramento, California died in her sleep.  Born in Cameron, Missouri in 1923, she was the oldest of three children of Raymond Winfred Dice and Alice Sherrard Peck Dice.  She was preceded in death by her husband Joseph Butts, her parents, sisters Mildred Elaine Dice and Marjorie Helen Moore, her ex-husband William Dennis Heekin...

Wayne Leffler

Wayne Leffler

Jan 12, 2015

Wayne Dewey Leffler, 72, of Chillicothe MO passed away Monday, January 12, 2015 at Cameron Nursing and Rehabilitation in Cameron MO. Wayne was born September 17, 1942 in Chillicothe, the son of Alfred Wayne Leffler and Ruby Tharp Leffler. He was a graduate of Chillicothe High School. He was an electrician and had worked for GE, Custom Radar, Grebe X-Ray...

Charlene Coleman

Charlene Coleman

Jan 8, 2015

Charlene Walz Coleman, age 84, a resident of Chillicothe, Missouri, died peacefully at her home on Thursday, January 8, 2015. Charlene was the daughter of Herbert and Caroline Walz, born July 3, 1930, in Utica, Missouri.  She was the third of five children, and a graduate of Utica High School. Charlene was married to Billy S. Coleman on May 28, 1948....

Kenneth Lower

Kenneth Lower

Jan 8, 2015

Kenneth Eugene Lower, 90, formerly of Brookfield and Chillicothe, MO passed away Thursday, January 8, 2015 at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cameron, MO. Kenneth was born April 10, 1924 in Brookfield MO the son of Floyd Wilson Lower and Audrey Laverne Hubbard Lower. He was a graduate of Brookfield High School. Following high school, Kenneth went to Kansas City...

Alvia Copeland, Sr.

Alvia Copeland, Sr.

Jan 5, 2015

Alvia  Lee (Al) Copeland, Sr., 67, of Chillicothe MO passed away January 5, 2015 at Livingston Manor Care Center in Chillicothe. Al Copeland Sr. was born October 23, 1947 in Harrison, Arkansas, the son of Ray Copeland and Della Faye Wilson Copeland. He was a graduate of El Paso High School in El Paso, Illinois. He was a heavy equipment mechanic...

Robert Thomas

Robert Thomas

Dec 27, 2014

Robert L. Thomas, 76, of Hale MO, passed away Saturday, December 27, 2014 at Carroll County Memorial Hospital in Carrollton MO. Bob Thomas was born September 21, 1938 in Dawn MO, the son of Floyd Earl Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Triplett Thomas. In 1955 Bob joined the United States Navy and served on the USS Hornet until 1959. On June...

Lois Stamper

Lois Stamper

Dec 19, 2014

Lois Nadine Stamper, 90, formerly of Utica MO passed away Friday, December 19, 2014 at Morningside Center in Chillicothe. Nadine Stamper was born October 19, 1924 in Lock Springs MO the daughter of Grover Edwin Bradshaw and Mary Lee Eads Bradshaw. She was a graduate of Lock Springs High School On August 22, 1948 Nadine married William Newton Stamper at...

Richard Boyer

Richard Boyer

Dec 14, 2014

Richard Glenn Boyer was born March 11, 1926 in New Bloomfield, MO. to Ira Thomas and Sally B.[Gilling] Boyer, both deceased. He attended Center School and New Bloomfield High School, both in MO. He married Ella Mae Forbis on June 19, 1949. Deceased 4/27/06 Richard worked as a machinist/tool & die maker throughout a career that began with his learning...

John Street

John Street

Dec 10, 2014

John Henry “Jack” Street of Independence, MO passed away December 10, 2014. Born in Monroe, Louisiana, January 28, 1926 to Charles E and Lydia Ann Street, Jack lived many years in St. Louis County, MO with his wife Elma Dean (Heath) Street, formerly of Braymer, and children: daughter Lydia (husband David Porter) and son Phil now residents of Kansas City,...

Rosa Darr

Rosa Darr

Dec 8, 2014

Rosa Lea Darr, 82, of Chillicothe, MO passed away Thursday, December 8, 2014 at Livingston Manor in Chillicothe. Rosa Lea was born May 23, 1932 in Chillicothe, the daughter of Buel Dowell and Thelma Maxey Dowell. She graduated from high school in Tulare, California. She worked for 15 years at MATCO in Chillicothe and she was a Stanley Home Products...

Billy Stiner

Billy Stiner

Nov 26, 2014

Billy Gene Stiner, Sr. 73, of Utica, MO passed away November 26, 2014 at his home in Utica. Billy was born May 7, 1941 in Trenton, MO the son of Levi Nelson Stiner and Bessy Leota Royston Stiner. On January 3, 1969 he married Sylvia Louise Allen in Chillicothe MO. She survives of the home. He worked as a welder...

Marion Travis

Marion Travis

Nov 23, 2014

Marion Travis, age 93, a resident of Chillicothe, Missouri, formerly of Creston, Iowa, passed away of Sunday, November 23, 2014, at the Baptist Home, under the care of St. Luke’s Hospice. Marion Gilbert Travis was born October 17, 1921, near Loomis, Nebraska to Thomas C. and Sylvia (LeRay) Travis. He was the seventh of nine sons. At age 17, he...

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