Obituaries
Loretta Ida (Sis) Kempf
Feb 20, 2016
Loretta Ida Kempf, 93, of Pilot Grove passed away Saturday, February 20, 2016 at Katy Manor. Loretta was born August 9, 1922 to John Christopher and Emma Coletta Newman Kempf at their home in the Clear Creek community. She worked for the Selwyn Shoe Company for 32 years and then for Artex in Boonville for 12 years until her...
William Thomas "Tom" Wisch
Feb 18, 2016
William Thomas "Tom" Wisch, age 74, of Russellville passed away early Thursday morning, February 18, 2016, at St. Joseph's Bluff s in Jefferson City. He was born May 11, 1941, in Jefferson City, a son of Andrew J. and Byna Ragain Wisch. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Peters Catholic Church in Jefferson City. Tom was a 1959...
Virginia Mae Guenther
Feb 17, 2016
Virginia M. Guenther, age 88, of Versailles, passed away late Wednesday night, at the Good Shepherd Care Center in Versailles. Virginia Mae Guenther was born April 1, 1927, in Versailles, Missouri the eldest child of Dora Irene (Weaver) Archer and Elmer Eugene Archer. She graduated from Versailles High School where she was Literary Editor of the 1945 school yearbook...
Paul William Kelly
Feb 13, 2016
Paul William Kelly, 71, of Pilot Grove, Missouri passed away Saturday, February 13, 2016 at Boone County Hospital in Columbia. He was one of 3 children born to John and Josephine Kelly in Whittier, California. Paul and Sheri were married July 23, 1965 and they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this past year. He worked many years for the...
Richard Anthony Schmitt
Feb 12, 2016
Richard Schmitt, 64, of Pilot Grove, Missouri passed away Friday, February 12, 2016 at Katy Manor in Pilot Grove. He was one of 13 children born to Paul and Edna Schmitt in Des Moines, Iowa. He was a graduate of Leniham High School in Marshalltown, Iowa. He and Darlene Davis were married April 7, 1987. Richard worked at Dothage...
Evelyn M Gerke
Feb 12, 2016
Evelyn Gerke, 81, of Tipton, Missouri passed away Friday, February 12, 2016 at St. Mary's Hospital in Jefferson City on the same day that her husband, Emil Gerke, died in 2012. She was born August 18, 1934 to Joseph and Lela Winebrenner Koechner. On September 21, 1954, she was married to Emil Gerke. Over the course of her working...
Fern Nolting
Feb 8, 2016
Fern D. Nolting was born near Stover, MO on November 23, 1923. She was the daughter of Edward and Augusta Kipp, was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran church in Stover, and attended high school there where she graduated in 1941. Following graduation she worked for North American Aviation, building B-25 bombers used during WWII. After being transferred to...
Virginia "Ginny" Lynn Proctor
Feb 5, 2016
Virginia ‘Ginny’ Lynn (Guemmer) Proctor, 78, of Lee’s Summit, MO, went home to be with her Lord and Savior February 5th, 2016; her husband of 60 years, Melvin Proctor, was lovingly by her side. He wrote his immediate thoughts after her passing, which read, “My dearest Ginny now has eternal peace and comfort, no more pain and confusion, with...
Ruth Venita Niece
Feb 1, 2016
Ruth Venita (Hayes) Niece, 94, passed away Monday, February 1, 2016 at the Shangri-La Living Center in Blue Springs, Missouri. She was born in Clear Creek, Missouri as one of 3 children born to Arthur and Trellice (Drennen) Hayes. She was a graduate of the Pilot Grove High School Class 1938 and had resided in Stanley, Idaho for 42...
Elwood Joseph Gerke
Jan 25, 2016
Elwood Joseph Gerke, 88, of Pilot Grove, Missouri passed away Monday, January 25, 2016 at Katy Manor. He was born on August 14, 1927 to John and Bertha (Lang) Gerke at Buffalo Prairie near Clear Creek. After graduating from Pilot Grove High School, Elwood joined the US Army Air Force and was stationed in Newfoundland. He married Winifred Lammers...
Edna Mae Green
Jan 23, 2016
Edna Mae Green, 97, of Blackwater, Missouri passed away Saturday, January 23, 2016 at the Cooper County Memorial Hospital in Boonville. Edna was born April 8, 1918 to Thomas Richard and Mattie Lee Calvert in Boonesboro, Missouri. She was raised along with four sisters and a brother in Howard County where both her parents had also been born and...
Robert J. Bauer
Jan 23, 2016
Robert J. Bauer, age 71, of Stover, passed away Saturday morning, January 23, 2016, at the Golden Age Living Center in Stover. He was born February 13, 1944, in Stover, a son of Richard and Lillie Rehmer Bauer. On March 18, 1983, at the Trinity Lutheran Church at Pyrmont, Robert was united in marriage to Barbara Sumner Wingard who...
William "Bill" Bowers
Jan 20, 2016
William "Bill" Bowers, age 67, of Versailles, passed away Wednesday, January 20, 2016, at the Bothwell Regional Health Center in Sedalia. He was born August 25, 1948, in Versailles, the son of Clarence Edwin "Pete" and Edna Kinter Bowers, who preceded him in death. On May 27, 1971, in Versailles, Bill was united in marriage to Denice Comstock, who...
Esther Lee Cowan
Jan 19, 2016
Esther Lee Cowan, age 83, of Versailles, passed away Tuesday, January 19, 2016, at Tipton Oak Manor in Tipton. She was born October 20, 1932, in Independence, a daughter of Richard and Alice Ellen Adalfe Holzbaur James. It was during trip on the OATS bus that Esther met her soul mate, William Cowan. On February 18, 1984, at the...
Norman Steinmeyer
Jan 15, 2016
Norman Steinmeyer, age 92, of rural Stover, passed away Friday morning, January 15, 2016, at the Golden Age Living Center in Stover. He was born October 21, 1923, on the family farm in western Morgan County, the only child of George and Caroline “Lena’ Brandt Steinmeyer, who preceded him in death. He was baptized November 3, 1923 and confirmed...
Harold Joseph Reuter
Jan 13, 2016
Harold Joseph Reuter, 65, of Pilot Grove, Missouri passed away Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at his residence with his family at his side. He was one of 7 children born in Boonville, Missouri to Herman Joseph and Florence Josephine Wessing Reuter. Harold was a graduate of Pilot Grove High School Class of 1968. He worked at Toastmaster in Boonville...
Russell "Al" Allan Wilkinson
Jan 11, 2016
Russell Allan "Al" Wilkinson, age 80, of Stover, passed away Monday, January 11, 2016, in Stover. He was born January 7, 1936, in Ottawa, Illinois a son of Russell Wilkinson and Mary Neal. He served his country as a paratrooper in the US Army. Al worked at several different professions through the years. He worked installing electronic equipment and...
Shirley Gardner
Jan 4, 2016
Shirley N. Gardner, age 75, of Stover, passed away Monday, January 4, 2016, at the Golden Age Living Center in Stover. She was born June 6, 1940, in Morgan County, a daughter of Eric and Edith Vickers Martin. She married Gene Gardner, who preceded her in death. She was a homemaker for most of her life; briefly working at...
Frances Arlene Roth
Dec 31, 2015
Frances Arlene Roth, 81, of Pilot Grove, Missouri passed away Thursday, December 31, 2015 at her daughter's residence in Pilot Grove. She was born in New Franklin, Missouri to Clarence and Lilly Acton. Frances was a graduate of New Franklin High School Class of 1952. She began working at McGraw Edison in Boonville and retired after 37 years of...
Lillie Mae Vansell Malotte
Dec 30, 2015
Lillie Malotte of Otterville, Missouri passed away Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at her residence. She was one of 4 children born to William Edward and Janie Margaret Lindsey in Sedalia, Missouri. Lillie worked for many years at J. A. Lamy Manufacturing Co in Sedalia. She owned a ceramic shop and enjoyed teaching and working with the local 4-H clubs....
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