Audrey Mae Paxton East, age 84 of Clinton, Missouri passed away Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at Golden Valley Memorial Hospital, Clinton. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, January 12 at the Vansant-Mills Funeral Home, Clinton, with burial in the Carpenter Cemetery, Chilhowee. The family will receive friends from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home. The family suggests memorial contributions to Twins Lakes Hospice and may be left in care of the funeral home. Fond memories may be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com.

She was the daughter of Roy and Julia (Keightley) Green, born July 22, 1923 in Leeton, Missouri, the eldest of ten children.

She graduated from Leeton High School. Over the years she had worked for Vincent's Shoe Store, Farmers Elevator, and Simes Shoe Store, all in Clinton. Until her health prevented she worked at Twin Lakes Hospice, Clinton. She was member of the Tebo Baptist Church.

On September 13, 1942, she married Virgil J. Paxton. He preceded her in death on November 11, 1970. On October 13, 1972, she married Wyatt East. He preceded her in death on April 18, 2000.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husbands, Virgil and Wyatt; an infant son and another son, Robert Leroy Paxton; one step son, Michael Wyatt East; one infant grandson, Charles Robert Gilmore; two sisters, Joan Tyree and Darline Smith and one brother, Alfred Leland Green.

She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Robert(Peggy) Gilmore, Chilhowee; a step daughter, Mrs. Gary(Sharon) Friar, Warsaw; two daughters-in-law, Mrs. Darrell(Beverly)(Paxton) Hayden and Nina East both of Clinton; two sisters, Winifred Hawke, Longview, Texas, and Wilma Anderson, Vienna, MO; four brothers, James Green, Sedalia, MO; Larry Green, California, MO; Roy Marion Green, Centertown, MO, and William Green, Paola, KS; four grandchildren, four step grandchildren, two great grandchildren, two step great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.