Anna Lee Simmons Nibel Whitacre age 85 of Clinton, Missouri passed away May 24, 2014 at Golden Living Center-Westwood, Clinton, Missouri. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Wednesday May 28, 2014 at the Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the chapel. Interment will follow at Englewood Cemetery, Clinton, Missouri. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to Mt. Zion United Methodist Church and Heartland Hospice and may be left in care of the funeral home. Fond memories may be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com.

Anna was born to the late Fred R. and Verna Marie Simmons on June 1, 1928 in Boonville, Missouri. Anna graduated from high school in Topeka, Kansas. After graduation, she was employed by Southwestern Bell in Kansas City. She married her first husband, Homer D. Nibel in l948. Homer was a design engineer and amateur radio operator with the call letters W0UHN. Anna worked many years for J.C. Penney in the drapery and linen department, beginning at the Blue Ridge Mall and retiring from the Bannister Mall in Kansas City.

Five years after the death of her first husband, she met Rev. Carl Whitacre at the Clinton Senior Center. They enjoyed many fun night dances and spending time with friends. Anna and Carl were married on June 17, 2005. Ann loved to sew, arrange flowers, work in her flower garden, dance and gather with amateur radio groups. Many have enjoyed her wonderful apple pies and strawberry desserts. She also adored her pet dog, Gus, a Jack Russell terrier. She loved traveling to Hawaii with her daughter, Pam and her granddaughter, Heather. She also enjoyed trips with husband, Carl to North Carolina, a fall leaf tour to New England and Washington, D.C.

Anna was baptized at the Blue Ridge Blvd. Christian Church, Kansas City, Missouri and again at Bear Creek United Methodist Church, Osceola, Missouri. She later became an active member of the Good Hope Baptist Church, Clinton. She was a member of the Clinton United Methodist Church, Clinton at the time of her death. She also greatly enjoyed the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church family.

Anna was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Homer, her brother, Harold Waterman and her sister, Signa Faye Nash.
She is survived by her husband, Rev. Carl Whitacre of the home; her daughter, Pam Olson and husband, Kevin of Clinton, her granddaughter, Heather Hublou of Warrensburg, Missouri, several nieces and their children; five stepchildren and many step-grandchildren and step great grandchildren.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Vansant-Mills Funeral Home of Clinton, Missouri