GenealogyBuff.com - Benton County, Missouri Obituary Collection - 1
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Rev. Don Reed
June 5th, 2004
Rev. Donald G. Reed, age 74, of Warsaw, passed away Friday, June 4, 2004, at Cox South Hospital in Springfield, Missouri.
He was born in California, Missouri, on December 20, 1929, the son of Leslie T. Reed and Edna U. Woodard Reed.
He graduated from California High School and attended Southwest Baptist College, Central State University, Missouri University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Don started his ministry at the age of 18 and continued to serve until his death. Some of the churches he served full-time include; First Baptist Church, Slater, Mo., Riverview Baptist Church, Osage Beach, Mo., Gill Memorial Baptist Church, Marshall, Mo., First Baptist Church, Cuba, Mo., First Baptist Church, Crocker, Mo., Main Street Baptist Church, California, Mo., Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, Clarksburg, Mo., Corticelli Baptist Church, Russelville, Mo., and Rock Enon Baptist Church, Enon, Mo.
He also found time to serve at Pleasant Bethel Baptist Church, Tebo Baptist Church and First Baptist Church of Warsaw during his retirement years. During his time pastoring, he also held several positions in the associations and state conventions including, Moderator of Meramec, Miller County and Saline County associations, Director of Church Training, Miller County, Vacation Bible School Director, Miller and Saline County, ASSIST Team Member, Music Director, Camp Director and Manager and Christian Life Commission Member.
He was an avid fisherman and moved to Warsaw, in 1993 to pursue that interest.
He was united in marriage to DeAubra J. Gilmore on June 3, 1951, in California, Mo. She preceded him in death.
He was then married to Esther E. Hendley New on November 29, 1951, in Crocker, Mo. She survives of the home.
He is also survived by one daughter, Sharon Caldwell, of Enon, Ohio, two sons, Russell New, of Cuba, Mo., and Stephen New, of Springfield, Mo., six grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, other relatives and many friends.
He was also preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Dwayne L. Reed.
Funeral services for Rev. Don G. Reed will be held at 11:00 A.M., Tuesday, June 8, 2004, at the First Baptist Church in Warsaw with Rev. Hugh Smith and Rev. Robert Sisney, officiating.
Burial and grave side services will be held at California City Cemetery at 2:30 P.M., Tuesday, June 8, 2004.
Visitation will be from 7:00 to 8:00 P.M. Monday, June 7, 2004, at the Reser Funeral Home in Warsaw.
Pallbearers will be Russell New, Ralph New, Christopher New, Stephen New, Jerry James and Randall James.
Jane Swift
June 2nd, 2004
Jane Swift, age 78, of Warsaw, Missouri, passed away Wednesday evening, June 2, 2004, at the Bothwell Regional Health Center in Sedalia, Missouri.
She was born near Climax Springs, Missouri, on October 7, 1925, the daughter of George Ross and Allie Elston Husong Flippin.
She graduated from Stoutland High School in Stoutland, Missouri, in the class of 1942. She began working as secretary to the commanding general at Ft. Leonard Wood Army Base during World War II. In 1946 She was united in marriage to James William Swift. They made their home on a Deer Creek farm near Hastain, Missouri. Here, they would raise their family of two daughters and one son.
In 1964, she moved to Warsaw where she was employed as a garment worker for Unitog until 1969, and then Lamy’s Levi Strauss factory in Sedalia until 1989. She retired at that time due to an injury at work.
She was a member of the Stoutland Baptist Church and was baptized in the Dry Auglaize Creek near Stoutland at the age of twelve.
She was a devoted mother and grandmother who spent her best times with her family caring for and loving her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She also enjoyed the Thursday morning "beauty shop bunch" at Linda’s with the usual lunches and many holiday, birthday and anniversary celebrations or any occasion they could think of to have fun together.
Jane is survived by two daughters, Kathy Davis, and her husband, Ken, Kay Smith, and her husband, Ronnie, and one son, Terry Swift, all of Warsaw, seven grandchildren, Gina Page, and her husband, Vince, of South Kansas City, Missouri, Gary Burton, and his wife, Robin, of Readlyn, Iowa, Tari Barkley, and her husband, MSgt Matt Barkley, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, T. R. Swift, of Harrisonville, Missouri, Kendra Leighty, and her husband, Robin, of Overland Park, Kansas, Dustin Burton, and his fiancé, Teresa Ryun, of Lincoln, Missouri, and Wilson Smith, and his wife, Jennifer, of Warsaw.
Also surviving are her beloved great-grandchildren, Sierra Jane & Marua Lee Page, Joshua & Tyler Swift, Garin, Jalyn & Darian Burton, Mikayla, Cody & Shaye Barkley, Justin & Joshua Ryun, Hailey Song and Olivia Smith, four nieces, Ruth DeFreece, and her husband J.W., Ann Hammond, Sue Davidson, and her husband Bill, and Linda Swearingon, and her husband Lance, other relatives and many friends.
Funeral services will be at 2:00 P.M. Sunday, June 6, 2004, at the Nazarene Church in Warsaw with Rev. Don Mitchell officiating.
Pallbearers will be Vince Page, Robin Leighty, Gary Burton, Dustin Burton, T.R. Swift and Matt Barkley.
Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery, Warsaw.
No Visitation.
She will lie in state at the Reser Funeral Home in Warsaw after 9:00 A.M. Saturday.
The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the St. Labre Indian School in Ashland, Montana, in care of the funeral home.
Lionel J. "Lenny" Fike
May 28th, 2004
Lionel Jae "Lenny" Fike, age 37, after an extended illness, slipped silently out of this world on Friday, May 28, 2004, to begin his walk to a new life and a new journey in the next world. He carries with him the Sacred Pipe and the love of his brothers of the Red Horse Drum Circle of Cameron, Missouri.
Lenny a Native American of the Ottawa Tribe, was born on January 3, 1967, at Traverse City, Grand Traverse, Michigan, and was placed November 19, 1968, in the home of his adoptive parents, Roy Albert and Donna Marlene Fike in Charlotte, Michigan.
He attended school in the Lee’s Summit, Missouri R-7 School District.
He is survived by his father, R. Albert Fike of Dayton, Ohio, his mother, Donna Stephenson Fike of El Dorado Springs, Missouri, two sisters, Dawna M. Mazurak-Fike of El Dorado Springs, Missouri, and Clara Lorinda "Rindy" Prescott of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, a brother, Frederick Martin "Fred" Fike of Blue Springs, Missouri, four nieces and two nephews.
There is no word for goodbye in the Lakota language. Instead, we say to each other, even at physical death, TOKSA AKE, which means "until next time". "Today has been good - - - Next time will be better." M I T A K U Y E O Y A S I N
("all my relations")
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, June 2, 2004 at 11:00 A.M. at the Reser Funeral Home, Warsaw.
Visitation will be from 10:30 to 11:00 A.M., prior to services on Wednesday.
Graveside services and Interment will be at the Cable Ridge Cemetery, Edwards, Missouri.
Arrangements by the Reser Funeral Home, 101 Main St., Warsaw, MO.
Russell T. Lowe
May 24th, 2004
Russell T. Lowe, age 72, of Edwards, Missouri, passed away Sunday evening, May 23, 2004, at the University of Missouri Medical Center in Columbia, Missouri.
He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, on January 15, 1932, the son of George and Gladys Faye Lewis Lowe.
He grew up in central Kansas, and graduated from Ellinwood High School. In 1951, he enlisted in the United State Air Force serving until 1955.
On October 2, 1967, he was united in marriage to Shirley Dobbs in Grove, Oklahoma. They made their home in Kansas City, until moving to their Lake of the Ozarks home near Edwards, Missouri, in 1969. There they owned an operated Russ’s Resort until 1976.
He then began working as a deputy sheriff under Benton County Sheriff Bob Breshears and later, Bob Crenshaw until 1991. He then owned and operated the D. A. Printers print shop in Kansas City, Missouri, for two more years and then retired.
He was an avid hunter and fisherman and enjoyed the outdoors of the Missouri Ozarks for many years, and threw in a Mule Deer hunting trip and went salmon fishing in Alaska, when the opportunity presented itself.
He was a member of American Legion Post #217 of Warsaw, the Masonic Lodge in Missouri City, Missouri, the Kansas City Valley of the Scottish Rite bodies, Ararat Shrine in Kansas City, and the Warsaw Shrine Club.
Russ is survived by his wife, Shirley, of the home, one son, Danny Lowe and his wife, Nancy, of Edwards, Missouri, two step-grandchildren, Corey Pike and Sean Gray, one brother, Bill Lowe, of Kansas City, Missouri, one sister, Ramona Lowe, of Kansas City, Missouri, several nieces and nephews, other relatives and many friends.
Graveside funeral services and Burial will be at 2:00 P.M. Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at the Shawnee Cemetery, Warsaw, with Rev. Rick Dewitt officiating. Visitation will be from 7:00 to 8:00 P.M. Tuesday evening at the Reser Funeral Home, Warsaw.
John F. Reser
May 22, 2004
John F. Reser, Age 85, passed away early Saturday morning, May 22, 2004, at his home in Warsaw, Missouri.
He was born in Urbana, Missouri, on February 21, 1919, the son of Frank James and Goldina Ann Pippin Reser.
He grew up in Polk County and graduated from Urbana High School in the class of 1936. He graduated from the Williams Institute of Mortuary Science in Kansas City, Kansas, and was licensed by the state of Missouri as a funeral director and embalmer in 1938. He moved to Warsaw in 1939 and purchased the funeral home from the White family operating as the White-Reser Funeral Home.
On April 14, 1943, he was inducted into the United States Army serving overseas in the Pacific, commissioned as a Captain in the115th Medical Battalion of the Medical Administrative Corps as a veteran of World War II. Having fulfilled his military duties he was discharged on March 11, 1946, and returned to Warsaw, Missouri, to pursue his chosen profession in funeral service, changing the name of the funeral home to Reser Funeral Home.
On November 17, 1946, he was united in marriage to Louise Barefield at Springfield, Missouri. They made their home in Warsaw where together they would raise their family of three daughters and provide care and comfort to the families they served at the Reser Funeral Home for sixty-five years. Louise preceded him in death on October 21, 1979.
John was a faithful member of the First United Methodist Church and had served and chaired various church committees during the years. He was a worker for his community and had served them well in various capacities. He served as a Director on the Board of the Osage Valley Bank in Warsaw for 53 years. He was dedicated to the care of Riverside Cemetery and served as secretary/treasurer for 57 years . He was a Sixty Year Member of the Missouri Funeral Directors Association and a member of the National Funeral Directors Association He was the last surviving charter member of the Warsaw Lions Club, He was past President of the Warsaw Area Chamber of Commerce and was Chairman of the Warsaw Christmas Parade for several years, and was recognized with the Warsaw Area Chamber of Commerce Civic Leadership Award in 1981. He served three terms on the Benton County R-3 School Board and served as President. He was a fifty year member of the Shawnee Masonic Lodge #653 A.F. & A.M.. of Warsaw and the Osage Valley Chapter #502 of the Order of the Eastern Star of Warsaw. He had served on the Warsaw City Board of Aldermen for several years and was Grand Marshall for the 36th Annual Jubilee Days Parade. He was a life member of Veterans of Foreign War Post #5894 and American Legion Post #217 of Warsaw.
On December 7, 1997, he was united in marriage to Earlene Wiest at his home in Warsaw. They made their home there and always enjoyed their visits from family and friends where you could always find a fresh baked sugar cookie or angel food cake.
Surviving is his wife, Earlene, of the home, three daughters, Marilyn Howe and her husband, Dan, of Lee’s Summit, Shawn Miller, and her husband, Jim, of Warsaw, and LuAnne Holmes and her husband, Lonnie of Blue Springs, 7 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren, a brother, J.R. Reser, and his wife, Inez of Osceola, Missouri and a sister, Fran Teeters and her husband, Pete, of Springfield, Missouri, other relatives and a community of caring neighbors and friends.
Funeral services for John F. Reser will be at 11:00 A.M., Tuesday, May 25, 2004 at the Warsaw First United Methodist Church of Warsaw, with Rev. Diana Loomis and Rev. Richard Anthony officiating. Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery, Warsaw. Pallbearers will be Kevin McCain, James D. Miller, John Weston Miller and Landon Reser Holmes. Honorary Pallbearers will be Cebert Breshears, Richard Waters and the Board of Directors of the Osage Valley Bank of Warsaw. The family will receive friends Monday evening beginning at 6:00 P.M., at the Reser Funeral Home, Warsaw. Memorial contributions may be made to the Riverside Cemetery Fund or the Warsaw First United Methodist Church Scholarship Fund in care of the Reser Funeral Home, Warsaw.
"Few To Fill Their Spot"
The Phone rings in the night,
His day will there begin.
He will work a lot of hours,
Before his day will end.
Often not appreciate,
A lot done behind the scenes.
The family is coming in now,
With broken hearts and dreams.
Though tears are often left there,
While families endure such pain.
Some many times he would like to cry,
But too often does refrain.
The things he carries with him,
No one could ever know.
He usually hides his feelings,
For weakness it might show.
You see, this man is a funeral director,
And in his eyes I see,
The years of dealing with death,
Has taken its toll on thee.
He loves to please the families,
God has entrusted to his care.
And when the families need him most,
He tries to always be there.
The Funeral Director’s life,
Isn’t as pleasant as it seems.
He deals with what we hope not too,
Each day when sunlight beams,
I love this Funeral Director,
For he does what most would not.
So try to remember to give him thanks,
‘Cause there are few to fill his spot.
By Janet Edmonds
Mildred L. Norvell
May 19th, 2004
Mildred Lavone Norvell, age 87, passed away Wednesday morning, May 19, 2004, at her home in Clinton, Missouri.
She was born on a dairy farm in Jackson County, Missouri, on November 12, 1916, the daughter of Fred and Eva Maud Cary Bradshaw.
She grew up in Henry County, and spent most of her life there. On July 4, 1937, she was married to Raymond Arnold. Unto this union, one daughter, Jean, was born. He preceded her in death on February 4, 1987, five months before their 50th Wedding Anniversary.
Mildred was a member of the First Christian Church in Clinton, Missouri. She was an avid bowler, and was a charter member of the Clinton Bowling Association, the "Young-At-Heart" Senior Bowling League, the Clinton Women’s Bowling Association, and the Rebekah Lodge #297.
In January of 1991, she married William Norvell. He preceded her in death on August 27, 2001.
She is survived by one daughter, Jean Randol, of Springfield, Missouri, two step-sons, Howard Norvell, of Clinton, Missouri, and Don Norvell, of Kansas City, Missouri, ten grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren, six great-great-grandchildren, other relatives and many friends.
Funeral services will be at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, May 22, 2004, at the First Christian Church in Clinton, with Rev. Howard Cupp officiating. Burial will be in the Englewood Cemetery, Clinton. Visitation will be from 12:30 to 2:00 P.M. Saturday at the church prior to the services. Arrangements by the Reser Funeral Home, Warsaw.
