Edith Jennings
MOUNT VERNON, Mo. - Edith G. Jennings, 99, Mount Vernon, died at 10:20 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, 1997, at Missouri Rehabilitation Center after a long illness.
Miss Jennings was born July 26, 1897, at Sarcoxie. She lived in the states of Arizona and New Mexico before moving to Mount Vernon about 30 years ago. She retired in 1970 as a teacher of Navaho Indians. She later taught for 10 years in Mount Vernon schools.
She was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Mount Vernon, and was a past member of Home Culture Club.
There are no immediate survivors.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Fossett-Mosher Funeral Home. The Rev. Warren Fikejs and Peggy Carl, minister, will officiate. Burial will be in Union Cemetery, south of Stotts City.
Friends may call until 5 p.m. today at the funeral home.
H. Dean Marti
LAMAR, Mo. - H. Dean Marti, 71, Lamar Heights, died at 7:05 a.m. Monday, Jan. 20, 1997, at Barton County Memorial Hospital, Lamar, after a long illness.
Mr. Marti was born Dec. 12, 1925, at Lamar, where he lived all of his life. He was an Army veteran of World War II and received the Purple Heart. He was a retired farmer and a member of Apostolic Christian Church, Lamar.
He married Arlene May Stewart on Sept. 24, 1948, at Lamar. She survives.
Additional survivors include two sons, Wayne Marti, Carthage, and Ken Marti, Lamar; two daughters, Lu Fanning and Connie Lehman, both of Lamar; three brothers, Charles Marti, Don Marti and Roland "Fleeter" Marti, all of Lamar; three sisters, Eunice Martin, Eureka, Ill., Polly Schrock, Congerville, Ill., and Rosemary Degnan, Bloomington, Ill.; and 12 grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Apostolic Christian Church, southwest of Lamar, with Gene Marti, minister, officiating. Burial will be in the Apostolic Christian Church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today at Daniel Funeral Home, Lamar.
Bessie Thompson
GREENFIELD, Mo. - Bessie Irene Thompson, 80, Greenfield, died at 5 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, 1997, at a nursing home in Greenfield after an illness.
Mrs. Thompson was born July 15, 1916, at Lawrenceville, Ill. She was a homemaker.
Survivors include three sons, Freeman Elmer Wells, Greenfield, Dale Wells, the state of Florida, and Dennis Wells, Gainsville, Texas; a daughter, Alice Kaye Hedge, Lakeland, Fla.; a brother, Lewis Dunlop, Nashville, Tenn.; two sisters, Della Cooper and Gertie Clayton Allen, both of Sumner, Ill.; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Services will be at noon Wednesday at Sumner Free Methodist Church, Sumner, Ill. The Rev. Jerry Flemming will officiate. Burial will be in Lawrenceville City Cemetery, Lawrenceville, Ill.
Arrangements are under the direction of Greenfield Funeral Home.
Neet Rickman
E. Wanetta "Neet" Rutherford Rickman, 81, Joplin, died at 12:25 p.m. Monday at a local nursing home after a long illness.
Mrs. Rickman was born June 29, 1915, in Joplin. She lived most of her life in Joplin, except from 1963 to 1969, when she lived at West Covina, Calif. She was a homemaker.
She married Howard Rickman on Sept. 13, 1940, in Joplin. He died July 19, 1968.
Survivors include two daughters, Dixie Garvin, Joplin, and Neeta Quinn, Newport Beach, Calif.; two sisters, Maxine Duley and Pauline Hamm, both of Joplin; two grandchildren; and two great-granddaughters.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery, Joplin. The Rev. Aaron Brown will officiate.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. today at Parker Mortuary, Joplin.
Contributions may be made to the Parkinson's and Other Neurological Diseases (POND) support group, in care of the mortuary.
Bernie Shrum
The Rev. Bernie Bruce Shrum, 84, Lowry City, a former Joplin area resident, died at 6:02 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, 1997, at Sac-Osage Hospital, Osceola, after an illness. Mr. Shrum was born Sept. 13, 1912, in Bellinger County. He lived his early life in Southwest Missouri. He attended Southwest Baptist College at Bolivar and Southwestern Theological Seminary at Fort Worth, Texas. He was ordained a minister at Vista Baptist Church, near Osceola. He has pastored churches at Vista, Osceola, Asbury, Joplin and Sarcoxie in Missouri, Kellogg, Idaho, Enumclaw, Wash., and Sheridan, Wyo. After he retired in 1980, he continued to pastor Round Prairie Baptist Church in Bates County and later Gerster Baptist Church in St. Clair County.
He married Lula Brown on Feb. 9, 1935, in Douglas County. She survives.
Additional survivors include two daughters, Nancy Carrell, Butler, and Suzanne Storm, Overland Park, Kan.; three grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
Services were at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Sheldon-Goodrich Funeral Home, Osceola. The Rev. Todd Forman and the Rev. John Barrett officiated. Burial was in Lowry City (Mo.) Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Maynard Duzan, Mike Floyd, Ed Misner, Lloyd Davis, Howard Burnett and Randy Hargis.
Jean Johnson
EVERTON, Mo. - Jean Ann Johnson, 70, Everton, died at 3:35 a.m. Monday, Jan. 20, 1997, at Aurora Community Hospital after a long illness.
Mrs. Johnson was born Aug. 14, 1926, at Grand Rapids, Minn. She lived in Paris Springs, near Everton, the past 35 years. She was a homemaker.
She married Robert Johnson on Nov. 30, 1946, at St. Paul, Minn. He survives.
Additional survivors include four sons, Thomas Johnson, Alamogordo, N.M., David Harold Johnson, Miller, Martin Victor Johnson, Halltown, and Clifford Paul Johnson, Ozark; four daughters, Virginia Ann Harmon, McClurg, Katherine Eileen Bamberry, Springfield, Sally Jean Kennedy and Margaret Kay Hadley, both of Sedan, Kan.; her mother, Emma Lindstrom, Maplewood, Minn.; four sisters, Ruth Gibbons, Sun City, Ariz., Ellsa Sorenson, White Bear Lake, Minn., Linda Gulick, Miller, Carole Lunderen, White Bear Lake; 26 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Morris-Leiman-Mosher Funeral Home, Miller. The Rev. Rodger Sutherland will officiate. Burial will be in Miller Memorial Gardens Cemetery, south of Miller.
Friends may call after 2 p.m. today at the funeral home, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. today.
Mary Mackowiak
CARTHAGE, Mo. - Mary Katherine Mackowiak, 63, Carthage, died at 11:45 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20, 1996, at her home after a long illness.
Mrs. Mackowiak was born June 2, 1933, in Richwood, W.Va. She was a homemaker. She was employed at Frames Family Restaurant in Sommerville, W.Va.
Her husband, Victor John Mackowiak, preceded her in death.
She is survived by a son, Joseph Mackowiak, Marmet, W.Va.; three daughters, Ann Walton and Melissa Mackowiak, both of Aurora, Ill., and Melanie Persinger, state of West Virginia; three sisters, Evelene Dodson, Carthage, Helen Sigley, Carthage, and Barbara Coffman, Gassaway, W.Va.; her stepmother, Betty Coffman, Gassaway; and three grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Greene Robertson Funeral Home, Sutton, W.Va. Burial will be in Barkers Ridge Cemetery, near Sutton.
Local arrangements were made by Ulmer Funeral Home.
