GenealogyBuff.com - Benton County, Missouri Obituary Collection - 23
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Betty Evelyn Stowe
(December 31, 1924 - August 8, 2011)
Betty Evelyn Stowe, age 86, passed away Monday morning, August 8, 2011, at her home in Warsaw, Missouri.
She was born in Sedalia, Missouri, on December 31, 1924, the daughter of Surface Edward and Jessie Coon Rymer.
She grew up in Springfield, Missouri, and graduated from Central High School in the class of 1943.
On May 13, 1945, she was united in marriage to Charles B. Stowe, Jr. at Buckingham Army Air Force Base in Ft. Myers, Florida. Following their marriage, they lived on the base until he was discharged from the United States Army Air Corps in 1946.
They then moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and later to Springfield, Missouri. Charlie began working for a construction company and Betty worked as a window decorator for Sears and Roebuck Company and as a greeting card artist for Hallmark Card. Charlie was transferred to Chanute, Kansas, and later moved to Holden Missouri where Charles worked in the furniture business for Betty's uncle, Claude Rymer.
After purchasing Gatliff Brothers Furniture in 1964, Betty and Charles moved their family to Warsaw, naming their new business Stowe & Sons Furniture. They operated the furniture store for thirty-nine years, until it's closing in 2003.
Betty was an active and devoted community leader. She worked as a Den Mother with the Cub Scouts and the Boy Scouts when her sons were active in both. She was a member of the Warsaw Flower & Garden Club. She enjoyed playing Bridge and Bingo. She went with Charlie to many Square Dances mostly for his gratification. And they were members of the National Travelers and Campers Travel Club. Betty was one of the founders of the Warsaw Community Betterment Program helping to make Warsaw a Five Star City. She was also active in the Warsaw branch of the Business and Professional Women's Club.
She was an accomplished "all-around" artist, working with ceramics and oil painting and water-colors, and many other media. She enjoyed knitting and crocheting.
Betty was a member of the Warsaw Christian Church.
She is survived by her husband, Charlie, of the home, two sons, Charles B. Stowe, III and his spouse Becky, of Bondurant, Iowa, and Drew Stowe and his wife Debbie, of Warsaw, Missouri. She also leaves three grandchildren, Christopher E. Stowe and his wife Mandy, of Springdale, Arkansas, Dalton Stowe and Dedra Stowe, both of Warsaw, and two great-grandchildren, Maria Stowe and Christopher Stowe, Jr. one cousin, Tom Rymer, of Warsaw, other relatives and friends.
Graveside funeral services will be at 2:00 P.M. Friday afternoon, August 12, 2011, at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Springfield, Missouri.
Brett Thomas Summers
(May 16, 1968 - August 6, 2011)
Brett Thomas Summers, age 43, passed away Saturday morning, August 6, 2011, at the University Hospital in Columbia, Missouri.
Funeral Arrangements are pending.
Reser Funeral Home
Betty Ruth Urbanek
(November 28, 1931 - August 2, 2011)
Betty Ruth Urbanek, age 79, of Republic, Missouri, formerly of Warsaw, Missouri, passed away Tuesday evening August 2, 2011 at her daughter’s home in Republic, Missouri.
She was born on November 28, 1931 in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of Roy and Lucille (Tittsworth) Norris.
Betty grew up in the Kansas City area and lived there many years while raising her family.
On February 28, 1977 she was united in marriage to Jack Urbanek, in Clinton, Missouri. They made their home in the Kansas City area and operated Taylor Homes, in Grandview, and later, sold manufactured homes in Lincoln, Missouri. In 2001, she retired from Bradshaw Printing in Warsaw.
She is preceded in death by three husbands; Harold "Jack" Bagby, Harold Dean Palmer and Jack Urbanek and one brother, Albert Norris.
She is survived by five children; Linda Simsheuser, and her husband Ron, of Republic, Missouri, Judy Bagby, of Odessa, Missouri, Sandra Stark, and her husband Gene, of Blue Springs, Missouri, David Palmer, and his wife Sherry, of Fredericksburg, Virginia and Kenneth Palmer, of Independence, Missouri, fourteen grandchildren; Willy, John, Kathy, Nathan, Jennifer, Julia, Tim, Melissa, Sean, Michelle, Christopher, Ryan, Leah and Joe, twenty-four great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter. She is also survived by her beloved poodle, "Duchess."
Funeral services for Betty R. Urbanek will be held at 10:00 A.M. Monday, August 8, 2011 at the Reser Funeral Home, in Warsaw, Missouri.
Visitation will be held from 9:30 until 10:00 A.M. Monday prior to the service.
Graveside services and interment will be held at 1:00 P.M. Monday at the Oak Ridge Memory Gardens, in Independence, Missouri.
Memorial contributions may be made to ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) c/o the Reser Funeral Home.
Wilma Louise Follmer
(April 8, 1914 - August 7, 2011)
Wilma Louise Carney Follmer, age 97, passed away Sunday evening, August 7, 2011, at the Golden Valley Memorial Hospital in Clinton, Missouri.
She was born in Urich, Missouri, on April 8, 1914, the daughter of George Washington Carney and Ella Fuqua Carney.
She grew up in Calhoun, Missouri, and graduated from high school there in the class of 1931. Following high school, she attended Chillicothe Business School. In 1934, she moved to Kansas City where she was employed as a switchboard operator for A T & T.
On October 19, 1936, she was united in marriage to Elmer Follmer in Kansas City. Unto this union, three sons were born.
In 1945, they moved to Chilhowee, Missouri, where they owned and operated the A & G Grocery Store.
In 1947, they moved to Warsaw. In 1952, they purchased, owned and operated the Roxy Theater.
She was a faithful member of the First United Methodist Church in Warsaw. She was a member of the Thomas Hart Benton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She twice served as president of the Benton County R-9 Parent Teachers Association. She had been a member of the Business & Professional Womens Club and the Matron's Club in Warsaw. She enjoyed playing Bridge and had played with the Ladies Monday Night Bridge Club for many years.
She was the last surviving sibling of eight brothers and sisters.
She was preceded in death by four brothers and three sisters. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Elmer, on January 31, 1983, one son, Daniel Follmer, on September 13, 1997, and a sister-in-law, Aubertine Carney.
Louise is survived by two sons, Jerry Follmer and Bob Follmer, and his wife, Patti, all of Warsaw, one daughter-in-law, Judy Follmer, of Ft. Madison, Iowa, three grandsons, Jason, Evan and Zach Follmer, and three great-grandsons.
A Celebration of Life Memorial Service will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, August 13, 2011, at the Reser Funeral Home in Warsaw.
Anna Lee Ewing Frakes Bryan
(July 20, 1923 - August 18, 2011)
Anna Lee, age 88, of Edwards, Mo., passed away Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 2:57 in Golden Valley Hospital, Clinton, Missouri. She was a resident of Warsaw Health & Rehabilitation for 9 years. Prior to this, she was a resident of Arrowhead Estates, Edwards, Missouri, for 30 years.
Anna Lee was born July 20, 1923 in rural Wakenda, Missouri, the daughter of John Thomas Ewing and Agnes Helen Antener.
She was raised by the Missouri River on a farm in the Wakenda and Grand Pass bottoms. She attended Riverside County Grade School in Wakenda, Missouri and she graduated from Santa Fe High School in Grand Pass, Missouri.
She was a member of the Christian Church in Carrollton, Missouri.
She descends from immigrant Justice Robert Ewing of Logan County Kentucky 1718-1787.
Anna Lee married Happy Charley Frakes, "Hap, " July 29, 1940 and she settled down to a life of child rearing, housekeeping and gardening.
Her family will always remember her mouth-watering homemade dinner rolls slathered with real butter, a recipe passed down from Edna Mardquedt, her German grandmother. She served them up with pan fried chicken, mashed potatoes & gravy, fresh corn on the cob, green beans, and big tomato slices, all of which she raised herself. She had a life-long passion for flowers of all kinds and she planted them everywhere. Hap built her a greenhouse so she could grow tropical plants. She sold flowers for Memorial Day and other occasions.
The flood of 1951 destroyed her home in the Waverly bottoms and she relocated to Grand Pass, where she lived with her family, contented, until the loss of her husband, due to illness, in 1964. For the first time, she worked outside the home in nursing at the Waverly Clinic in Waverly, Missouri.
The Ewings and Frakes histories are recorded in books: Mercer County Pioneer Traces, Vol. I and History of Saline County 2000.
In 1966, she remarried Ralph Frederick Bryan of Grand Pass, Missouri. Ralph and Anna moved to southern California, and she continued her nursing career in Bellflower, at the city hospital. They lived happily in California, for ten years and traveled extensively to nearly every state and tourist attraction in the United States and into Canada.
She took early retirement at 60 with her husband Ralph. They moved to Edwards, Missouri, in 1981, where he and her family built their retirement home on the Lake in the Ozarks below Truman Dam. This is where she lived out the rest of her days doing what she loved most: raising flowers, traveling, reading, viewing satellite TV, bird watching, feeding her favorite wild critters, sipping tea in front of her big picture window and watching the Spoonbillers and bass fishermen. She especially enjoyed sitting on her dock watching her family and grandchildren fish and play on the lake and sharing it all with her constant and devoted companion, Ms Cotton, a beautiful long hair blue point Siamese cat.
In her last years, she enjoyed dining and visiting with her friends and companions after the death of her husband Ralph.
Anna Lee was preceded in death by her parents and her husband’s: John T. Ewing, October 11, 1996, Agnes Helen Antener, May 7, 1983, Ralph Frederick Bryan, September 29, 1989 and Happy Charley Frakes, June 10, 2006.
She is survived by her sister, Ruth Evelyn (Anderson) of Baldwin Park, California, three sons and three daughters: Charles Herbert Frakes of Merrill, Michigan, Raymond Edward Frakes and wife Dixie of Grandview, Missouri, Earl Wayne Frakes and wife Penny of Raytown, Missouri, Diana Ruth Tyler and husband Donald R.Young of Edwards, Missouri, Katherine Irene Anderson of Lee’s Summit, Missouri and Barbara Lee of Wisconsin. Other survivors: eleven grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and a wealth of nieces and nephews.
Graveside services and interment for Anna Lee will be held at 1:00 P.M., Monday, August 22, 2011 at The Grand Pass Cemetery in Grand Pass Missouri.
Family and friends may call from 8:00 to Noon, Saturday and also from 8:00 to 11:00 A.M., Monday prior to graveside services at the Reser Funeral Home, Warsaw.
Recorded music: "The Old Rugged Cross" and "In the Garden".
Pallbearers: sons and grandsons, Charles Herbert Frakes, Raymond Edward Frakes, Earl Wayne Frakes, Earl Wayne Frakes Jr., Keith Edward Frakes and Kevin Lee Frakes.
Standby pallbearers: grandsons Timothy Schnakenberg and Tony Blogumas and son-in-law Donald R Young.
Arrangements under the direction of the Reser Funeral Home, Warsaw, Missouri.
Memorials may be made to the charity of your choice or the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.
Elmo "Hap" Yeager
(January 8, 1920 - August 28, 2011)
Elmo M. "Hap" Yeager, age 91, of Warsaw, passed away Sunday evening, August 28, 2011, at the Warsaw Health and Rehabilitation Center in Warsaw, MO.
He was the last living child of Daniel and Emma Moore Yeager, born on January 8, 1920 in Edwards, Missouri.
On September 23, 1943, he was inducted into the United States Army, serving in the South Pacific in Guam, Leyte, Kerama Retto, Le Shima, and Okinawa in the 77th Infantry Division during World War II. He was honorably discharged on February 22, 1946. Hap recently was able to visit the World War II memorial in Washington D.C., an experience he was so proud of.
On November 22, 1942, he was united in marriage to Margaret M. Meuschke in Kansas City, Missouri. They made their home in Kansas City where Hap was a salesman selling Motorola products.
In 2001, they moved to Warsaw, Mo.
He was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church of Lincoln. Hap loved music and playing his guitar. He began singing at 17 and when he returned from World War II, he continued to sing "happy" songs for it was his love of music that helped him through the trials of war. He lived his life sharing sunshine through his music. He enjoyed going to country western music shows and performing for anyone that asked him.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret, on July 28, 2006, two brothers, Chet Yeager and Norris Yeager and three sisters, Della Mae Walthall, Gertrude Bybee and Elsie Powell,
Surviving is one daughter, Mae Bressa Binnie of Stover, Missouri, many nieces and nephews, whom he adored, and many friends.
Funeral services for Hap Yeager will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, September 1, 2011 at the Reser Funeral Home in Warsaw with Pastor Leonard Poppe, officiating.
Burial and Military Honors will follow in the Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Lincoln, Missouri.
Family will receive friends from 10:00 AM, Thursday until the funeral hour at the Reser Funeral Home, Warsaw.
Larry Kent Nelson Sr.
(January 10, 1941 - August 11, 2011)
U.S. Veteran
Larry Kent Nelson Sr., age 70, of Cross Timbers, Missouri, passed away August 15, 2011, at the Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach, Missouri.
He was born on January 10, 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Raymond Robert Nelson and Leah Marjorie Hatcher Nelson.
Larry attended Weableau High School and, at the age of 19, joined the United States Army Infantry where he was stationed in Korea from 1960-1962.
On June 27, 1964, he was united in marriage to Martha Ethel Caldwell, unto this union, 3 sons were born.
Larry was a truck driver hauling freight until he was forced to retire due to health issues.
He was an active member of River Church in Warsaw, Missouri. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, and the outdoors.
He was preceded in death by one son, Clint Nelson on January 1, 1999, two brothers, Bob Nelson on March 11, 2011, Ronald Nelson on October 12, 2008, and a grandson, Joseph Nelson.
He is survived by his wife Martha Nelson, of the home, two sons Larry K. Nelson Jr, and his wife Tammy, and Danny R. Nelson, and his wife Michelle. 4 grandchildren, Alyssa, Amy, Cody & Kyle and one half-sister Deborah Nelson.
Funeral services for Larry K. Nelson Sr. will be at the River Church on Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. with Rev. Sam Hikle, officiating.
He was cremated at the Kaysinger Crematory in Warsaw, Missouri.
Inurnment will be at the Bethel Chapel Cemetery in Edwards, Missouri.
Theodore C. "Ted" Wallo
(January 13, 1919 - August 5, 2011)
Ted C. Wallo, age 92, passed away Friday morning, August 5, 2011, at his home in Clinton, Mo.
He was born on January 13, 1919.
He married Esther Kirby April 9, 1939. After sixty-two years of marriage she preceded him in death.
Ted graduated from Finlay Engineering College with degrees in Electrical and Mechanical engineering. He was the 6,629 registered Professional Engineer in the state of Missouri.
He was chief of the Quality Assurance Branch for the Kansas City office of the Atomic Energy Commission for 31 years. He retired in 1982.
Mr. Wallo is survived by his wife, Betty Jo Lawler Wallo, his daughters, Sandra Wallo Files and Juanita Wallo Irvin.
He has six grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren, and all of Betty’s family.
Funeral Service will be at 2:00 PM Sunday, August 7, 2011, at the Reser Funeral Home in Warsaw, Missouri.
Visitation will be from 1:00 to 2:00 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will follow the services at New Home Cemetery in Warsaw.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Twin Lakes Hospice in Clinton, Missouri.
