Laura Mae Barrows, age 88 of Clinton, Missouri passed away Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at her home. Funeral services will be 1:30 P.M. Saturday, November 25, 2006 at Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton, with burial in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton. Family will receive friends one hour before the service on Saturday at the chapel. Family suggests contributions to the Twin Lakes Hospice or Clinton Church of the Nazarene and may be left at the funeral home.

Laura was born at Lewis Station, Missouri, the fifth of ten children to William Lee and Bertha Sell Dalton. She was married to Benjamin G. Barrows on July 27, 1935. She was a member of the Clinton Church of the Nazarene where she taught Sunday School and Bible Study Group, she also belonged to Garden Clubs and Extension Groups, volunteered many hours at the Clinton Senior Center and at nursing homes where she was also a member of the traveling "Kitchen Band" at the Senior Center for many years. She joined the Golden Valley Memorial Hospital Auxiliary in 1986 and her last award in April 2006 was for 5200 hours.

She is survived by her husband of 71 years, Ben of the home; four sons, Don Barrows and wife, Wynona of Brooksville, Florida, Bob Barrows and wife, Verona of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Bill Barrows and wife, Lynn of Bartlesville, Oklahoma and Larry Barrows and wife, Janice of Clinton, Missouri; two daughters, Judy Matthews and husband, Wayne of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Leta Mowen and husband, Rick of Shawnee, Kansas, a son-in-law, Stephen Colaw and wife, Joyce of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; three sisters, Doris Evans and husband, Roy, Pauline Wood, Margie Sheek and husband, Shorty and a sister-in-law, Jewel Dalton, all of Clinton, Missouri as well as sixteen grandchildren and 39 great grandchildren.