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U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014

GARY W. KISER
GARY WILLIAM KISER OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA FORMERLY OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI WAS BORN AUGUST 19, 1958 IN FORT KNOW, KENTUCKY, A SON OF DELORIS LOU (WILCOX) PROBST AND THE LATE JERRY DALE KISER SR. GARY DEPARTED THIS LIFE SUDDENLY AT THE ORANGE COUNTY HOSPITAL, ORLANDO, FLORIDA MONDAY, JULY 14, 2003 AT THE AGE OF FORTY FOUR YEARS.
GARY IS SURVIVED BY HIS MOTHER DELORIS PROBST OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI; TWO DAUGHTERS, ASHLEY KISER AND REBECCA KISER; TWO BROTHERS, ROBERT L. KISER OF BERNIE, MISSOURI AND JERRY DALE KISER, JR. OF KINGSTON, Tennessee; ONE SISTER, DEEANN HAMBY OF POTOSI, MISSOURI; SEVERAL NIECES, NEPHEWS AND OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
PRIVATE SERVICES WERE HELD THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2003. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS WERE ENTRUSTED TO THE CARE OF MOORE FUNERAL HOMES, POTOSI, MISSOURI.

WINFRED N. MILLER
WINFRED NORMAN MILLER OF BELGRADE, MISSOURI, WAS BORN OCTOBER 3, 1911, IN PARNELL, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE GEORGE ELMER AND AMERICA ELLEN (FOLAND) MILLER. WINFRED DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT GEORGIAN GARDENS NURSING HOME ON APRIL 21, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF EIGHTY-SEVEN YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND EIGHTEEN DAYS.
WINFRED WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO NORA HAYES ON APRIL 22, 1939, IN RICHWOODS, MISSOURI AND TO THIS UNION THREE CHILDREN WERE BORN.
WINFRED IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, NORA L. MILLER OF BELGRADE, ONE SON, NORMAN MILLER AND WIFE KAREN OF ST. LOUIS, ONE DAUGHTER, PATRICIA E. YOUNT AND HUSBAND GARY OF BELGRADE, ELEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, ONE BROTHER, VICTOR MILLER AND WIFE THELMA OF RAVENWOOD, MISSOURI, ONE SISTER, ROSALIE BRAND OF CHESTER, NEW YORK AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SON ROBERT L. MILLER, ONE BROTHER, AUSTIN MILLER, THREE SISTERS, NAOMI TUTTLE, EUNICE MADDEN AND RACHEL BERG.
WINFRED WAS A DEVOTED CHRISTIAN AND ATTENDED THE ST. JOHN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN BISMARCK, MISSOURI.
WINFRED'S LIFE OF HARD WORK LEAD HIM DOWN THE PATH OF MANY PROFESSIONS BUT ALL WERE ASSOCIATED WITH THE FARMING INDUSTRY. HE HAD SERVED AS ASSISTANT HERDSMAN FOR RALSTON PURINA AT AN EXPERIMENTAL FARM IN GRAY SUMMIT, MISSOURI. WINFRED LOVED WORKING HARD IN HIS FIELDS TO PRODUCE QUALITY PRODUCTS. HE WAS ABLE TO FIND HUMOR IN EVERY SITUATION. HE LOVED NATURE AND FARMING WAS NOT A JOB BUT HIS LIFE LONG LOVE. HE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF EVERYONE ELSE BEFORE HIMSELF.
VISITATION WAS HELD THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1999, FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
A FUNERAL MASS WAS CELEBRATED FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1999, AT 10:00 A.M. AT ST. STEPHENS CATHOLIC CHURCH WITH FATHER JIM FRENCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN ST. STEPHENS CATHOLIC CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, DWAYNE A. MILLER, WRAY P. MILLER, GREG L. YOUNT, RYAN SCOTT YOUNT, JOE L. ALLEN AND JOHN RIMMER.

DONALD G. LITTON
DONALD GEORGE LITTON OF POTOSI, MISSOURI WAS BORN SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1933 IN POTOSI, MISSOURI A SON OF THE LATE MICHAEL WILLIAM LITTON AND EDITH PEARL (WILLIAMS) LITTON. DON DEPARTED THIS LIFE THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2003 AT THE WASHINGTON COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT THE AGE OF SEVENTY YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND TEN DAYS.
DON WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO GLENDOLA NICHOLSON NOVEMBER 21, 1951 IN POTOSI, MISSOURI. THEY WERE BLESSED TO HAVE FIFTY-ONE YEARS TOGETHER WITH THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
DON IS SURVIVED BY HIS LOVING AND DEVOTED WIFE GLENDOLA LITTON OF POTOSI, MISSOURI; TWO DAUGHTERS, AMANDA LITTON OF BARNHART, MISSOURI AND DONNA OWENS AND HUSBAND ROCKY OF LEAWOOD, KANSAS; ONE SON, JUSTIN W. LITTON OF POTOSI, MISSOURI; ONE SISTER, JEAN DUNLAP AND HUSBAND LAWRENCE OF POTOSI, MISSOURI; THREE GRANDCHILDREN, MATHEW OWENS, KATHRYN OWENS AND JOSHUA OWENS ALL OF LEAWOOD, KANSAS AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
DON WAS A MEMBER OF THE POTOSI SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH. HE SERVED THE COMMUNITY AS A BOARD MEMBER OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOR FOURTEEN YEARS. DON SERVED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD AND AS INTERIM ADMINISTRATOR OF THE HOSPITAL. HE WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY/MINERAL AREA RESCUE SQUAD. DON DROVE A SCHOOL BUS FOR THE POTOSI R-3 SCHOOL DISTRICT. DON WAS A RETIRED AUTO WORKER FOR THE CHRYSLER CORPORATION.
DON ENJOYED THE MANY GIFTS OF MOTHER NATURE, HE WAS ALWAYS READY TO SPEND TIME FISHING AND RELAXING IN THE COUNTRY SIDE. HE LOVED TO SPEND TIME IN HIS GARDEN.
DON HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR THE WELL FARE OF HIS FELLOW PERSON, ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP, SERVE OR DEDICATE HIS SELF AND TIME TO THE COMMUNITY. HE WILL BE REMEMBERED AND SADLY MISSED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.
VISITATION WAS HELD SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2003 FRO 2:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AND SUNDAY, JULY 27, 2003 FROM 10:00 A.M. TO 1:00 P.M. AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI, MISSOURI AND SUNDAY, JULY 27, 2003 FROM 1:00 P.M. TO 2:00 P.M. AT THE POTOSI SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH, POTOSI, MISSOURI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY, JULY 27, 2003 AT 2:00 P.M. AT THE POTOSI SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH, POTOSI, MISSOURI WITH REVEREND JOHN EDWARDS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN THE SUNSET HILL Cemetery, POTOSI, MISSOURI. SERVING AS PALL BEARERS WERE JUSTIN LITTON, MATHEW OWENS, NATHAN ROWE, JESSE ROWE, CHRIS ROBART AND MIKEY ROBART. HONORARY PALL BEARERS WERE NORMAN BOWLES, CARL PHILLIPS, DONNIE LARAMORE, DEAN FERGUSON, LAWRENCE DUNLAP AND RICHARD BATTREAL.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS WERE ENTRUSTED TO THE CARE OF MOORE FUNERAL HOMES, POTOSI, MISSOURI.

LAVERN H. EVANS
LAVERN HOWARD EVANS OF POTOSI, MISSOURI WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 15, 1931 IN COURTOIS, MISSOURI A SON OF THE LATE ROY SHERMAN AND EDNA ELIZABETH (MABES) EVANS. LAVERN RECEIVED HEAVENLY PEACE FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2003 AT HIS HOME AT THE AGE OF SEVENTY-ONE YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND TEN DAYS.
LAVERN IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE MATTIE ANN (GOODMAN) EVANS OF POTOSI, MISSOURI; ONE DAUGHTER, RHONDA GILLIAM AND HUSBAND KEVIN OF FARMINGTON, MISSOURI; THREE SONS, DENNIS EVANS OF CLARKTON, MISSOURI, PHILLIP EVANS OF STEELVILLE, MISSOURI AND MARTY EVANS AND WIFE SUSIE OF POTOSI, MISSOURI; THREE STEP DAUGHTERS, LINDA LAWSON AND HUSBAND DON OF FARMINGTON, MISSOURI, LEANNE LAKE OF POTOSI, MISSOURI AND JUDY EVANS OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI; ONE STEP SON, JAMES LAKE OF POTOSI, MISSOURI; TWO SISTERS GLENNA DICUS OF DESLOGE, MISSOURI AND MARILYN BENSON AND HUSBAND DALE OF ST. JAMES, MISSOURI; ONE BROTHER OLIN EVANS AND WIFE PATRICIA OF FESTUS; ONE SISTER-IN-LAW PATRICIA EVANS OF VICHY, MISSOURI; THREE GRANDCHILDREN, ANDREW EVANS, RYAN EVANS AND HUNTER EVANS; THREE STEP GRANDCHILDREN RYAN AUBUCHON, LANCE AND COLLIN GILLIAM AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS LAVERN WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS FIRST WIFE LYNDORA EVANS ON APRIL 21, 1988, ONE STEP DAUGHTER DEBBIE LAKE AND ONE BROTHER ODELL EVANS.
LAVERN ENJOYED HUNTING IN THE WOODS WITH HIS BOYS AND FRIENDS. HE WAS AN AVID GARDNER AND ENJOYED HIS VEGETABLES AND FLOWERS. LAVERN ENJOYED DOING CARPENTRY WORK. HE LOVED TO TAKE TIME AND LISTEN TO AND SING GOSPEL MUSIC AND ATTEND CHURCH.
LAVERN HAD A VERY SPECIAL PLACE IN HIS HEART FOR HIS GRANDCHILDREN AND ENJOYED SPENDING TIME WITH EACH OF THEM.
VISITATION WAS HELD SUNDAY, JULY 27, 2003 FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AND MONDAY, JULY 28, 2003 FROM 9:00 A.M. TO 11:00 A.M. AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI, MISSOURI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD MONDAY, JULY 28, 2003 AT 11:00 A.M. AT THE MOORE MEMORIAL CHAPEL WITH REVEREND CLARENCE CASTEEL OFFICIATING. MUSICAL SELECTIONS PLAYED WERE HELP POUR OUT THE RAIN, I'D LIKE TO HAVE PAPA SHOW ME AROUND AND THE OLD RUGGED CROSS. BURIAL WAS IN THE SHOAL CREEK Cemetery, VIBURNUM, MISSOURI. SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE BILL ATKINSON, FRANK ATKINSON, DON LAWSON, JAMES HANKLE, DONALD DICUS, RANDY BENSON AND ROY DALE EVANS.
ARRANGEMENTS WERE ENTRUSTED TO THE CARE AND DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOMES, POTOSI ~ IRONDALE, MISSOURI.

WAYNE JOHNSON
WAYNE ROLLIN JOHNSON OF CADET, MISSOURI WAS BORN DECEMBER 4, 1954 IN TIFF, MISSOURI A SON OF THE LATE JOSEPH NARY AND MARTHA BEULAH (CAIN) JOHNSON. WAYNE DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HIS HOME MONDAY, JULY 28, 2003 AT THE AGE OF FORTY-EIGHT YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND TWENTY-FOUR DAYS.
WAYNE IS SURVIVED BY THREE SISTERS, JEANETTE HAMLIN OF HOUSE SPRINGS, MISSOURI, MARTHA SCHAEFFERKOETTER AND HUSBAND BENNY OF HIGH RIDGE, MISSOURI AND MARY WICKER AND HUSBAND LARRY OF CADET, MISSOURI; SIX BROTHERS, DANIEL JOHNSON AND WIFE LIL OF ESTHER, MISSOURI, RANDALL JOHNSON AND WIFE JOYCE OF TIFF, MISSOURI, LINDELL JOHNSON OF TIFF, MISSOURI, DONALD JOHNSON AND WIFE SUSIE OF HIGH RIDGE, MISSOURI, RICHARD JOHNSON OF TIFF, MISSOURI AND JAMES JOHNSON OF TIFF, MISSOURI; A VERY DEAR AND SPECIAL FRIEND MARTHA MERCER OF CADET, MISSOURI AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY FIVE BROTHERS, MICHAEL, MITCHELL, SAMUEL, JOSEPH AND ROGER JOHNSON.
WAYNE ENJOYED WATCHING WRESTLING AND WHEEL OF FORTUNE ON THE TELEVISION. HE WAS ALWAYS READY TO DEFEND HIS RECORD AT A GAME OF CHECKERS. WAYNE LOVED HIS FAMILY AND ENJOYED ACTING THE ROLE OF THE BOSS WITH THEM. HE ALWAYS HAD A WARM SMILE WHEN HE MET YOU AND WAS ALWAYS READY TO SHAKE A HAND AND TALK A SPELL.
VISITATION WAS HELD WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2003 FROM 9:00 A.M. TO 11:00 A.M. AT THE HOUSE OF PRAYER CHURCH TIFF, MISSOURI..
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2003 AT 11:00 A.M. AT THE HOUSE OF PRAYER CHURCH, TIFF, MISSOURI. BURIAL WAS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.
SERVICES WERE ENTRUSTED TO THE CARE OF MOORE FUNERAL HOMES, POTOSI, MISSOURI.

EDNA CRESSWELL
EDNA LUCY CRESSWELL OF POTOSI, MISSOURI WAS BORN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1901 IN OKLAHOMA. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE JOHN AND LAURA (KINDRICK) AYRES. EDNA ENTERED THE GATES OF HEAVEN TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2003 AT THE AGE OF ONE HUNDRED AND ONE YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND TEN DAYS.
EDNA WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO THE LATE FRED CARR RICHARDS IN 1919 AND THEY WERE BLESSED TO HAVE FOUR CHILDREN BORN TO THIS UNION. FRED DIED JULY 17, 1941. EDNA THEN married WILLIAM J. CRESSWELL IN MID SUMMER OF 1942, HE PRECEDED EDNA IN DEATH IN 1964.
EDNA IS SURVIVED BY ONE DAUGHTER IRENE DECLUE OF POTOSI, MISSOURI; HER GRANDDAUGHTER, WHOM SHE RAISED, DOROTHY LORE AND HUSBAND WAYNE OF POTOSI, MISSOURI AND NINETEEN ADDITIONAL GRANDCHILDREN; MANY GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; MANY DEAR AND SPECIAL FRIENDS AT THE GEORGIAN GARDEN NURSING HOME AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS AND HUSBANDS, EDNA WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE DAUGHTER EVELYN WEISS; TWO SONS FRED RICHARDS AND MALCOLM RICHARDS; ONE BROTHER BRUZ AYRES; ONE GRANDCHILD, TOMMY RICHARDS; TWO GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, MATTHEW LORE AND JONETTE RICHARDS.
EDNA BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH HARD WORK EARLY IN LIFE GROWING UP ON FARMS IN OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS. HER MOTHER SUFFERED A STOKE AND AT A YOUNG AGE EDNA BECAME THE WOMAN OF THE HOUSE CARING FOR HER BED RIDDEN MOTHER AND THE NORMAL HOUSEHOLD DUTIES. EDNA AND HER FAMILY WENT THROUGH THE DEPRESSION YEARS. A DIFFICULT TIME AS IT WAS FOR EVERYONE. SHE WORKED AND TOOK IN WASHING AND IRONING TO HELP SUPPORT HER FAMILY. AT TIMES SHE TORE APART HER OLD CLOTHING AND MADE HER CHILDREN CLOTHES. ON ONE OCCASION SHE MADE THE GIRLS COATS, WHEN THEY WENT TO SCHOOL THE TEACHERS RAVED OVER THE BEAUTIFUL COATS WHICH HAD BEEN MADE FROM HER OWN COAT. EDNA WORKED FOR DR. GEORGE CRESSWELL, HER BROTHER-IN-LAW FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS. UPON HIS RETIREMENT SHE THEN WORKED A SHORT TIME FOR DR. KIRBY TURNER.
EDNA WAS A MEMBER OF THE POTOSI UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, SERVED AS A PINK LADY AT THE WASHINGTON COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, SERVED FOR YEARS AS COMMITTEE WOMAN FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND WORKED DILIGENTLY IN THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAYERS SENIOR CENTER.
EDNA WAS THE MOST AMAZING WOMAN ONE COULD EVER MEET. SHE HAS BEEN AN INSPIRATION TO SO MANY PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES SHE HAS TOUCHED.
VISITATION WAS HELD THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2003 FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AND FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2003 FROM 10:00 A.M. TO 1:00 P.M. AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI, MISSOURI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2003 AT 1:00 P.M. AT THE MOORE MEMORIAL CHAPEL WITH ELDER LEONARD COMPTON OFFICIATING. MUSICAL SELECTIONS WERE PROVIDED BY TIM AND ANDREW LORE. SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE ANDREW LORE, TIM LORE, MIKE BARRETT, JEREMY HOGAN, JEFF WEISS AND JEFF HIGGINBOTHAM. BURIAL WAS IN THE NEW MASONIC Cemetery, POTOSI, MISSOURI.