Datha E. Southard age 84 of Clinton, Missouri passed away, Friday Feb. 24th, 2012 at the Golden Valley Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be 1:00 P.M. Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton with interment in the Johnstown Cemetery, Johnstown, Missouri. Visitation will be 12:00-1:00 P.M. prior to service also at the chapel. Family suggests memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society and may be left in care of funeral home. Fond memories can be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com.

Datha drove a delivery truck, worked at a factory and also at Sears. She was a Girl Scout leader. She was a Baptist.

She was preceded in death by her husband Ralph in 1998 and her parents John and Hattie (Mosier) Setzer.

Surviors include her son John Southard of Clinton; daughter Doris (Ron) Ferguson of Raytown; five sisters, Anita Fickle, Clinton, Norene Paul, Blue Springs, Lois (Robert) Rich, Bates City, Evelyn Boyer, Farmington, and Marge (Dale) Adams, Buckner; four brothers Ronald (Marti) Setzer, Urich, Richard (
ruby) Setzer, Greenridge, Charles L. Setzer, Clinton, and Kenneth (Carol) Setzer, Harrisonville; two grandchildren Jennifer (Phil) Pavlicek and Eric (Angie) Ferguson both of Raytown; and four great-grandchildren Brandon Ferguson, Bill Ferguson, Mackenzie Pavlicek, and Riley Pavlicek.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Vansant-Mills Funeral Home, Clinton.