Lois Jean Elliott, age 82, of Clinton, Missouri passed away on Sunday, March 13, 2022 at Clinton Healthcare and Rehab. Center in Clinton, Missouri. Funeral service will be held at 3:00 PM on Saturday, March 19, 2022 at the Friendly Pentecostal Church (625 NW Highway 7) Clinton, Missouri with visitation from 2:00-3:00 PM prior to the service. Burial will follow in Vansant Road Cemetery in Clinton. Memorial contributions can be made to the Friendly Pentecostal Church or Straight Up Ministries and can be left in care of the funeral home.

Lois Jean Elliott passed peacefully surrounded by family on Sunday, March 13 ^th , 2022 She was born in Baxter Springs, Kansas on May 30 ^th , 1939. She was the oldest child of Ruth Virginia and Marvin Smith.

On May 10 ^th , 1958 she married Elmer Lee Elliott, the love of her life. They spent their years together in the Kansas City area, before making their final home in Clinton, MO.

Lois loved the Lord, her family, church, and her country. She considered her children and grandchildren her greatest blessing. She spent most of her years as a homemaker and served in a nursing home and in private home care as a Certified Nurse Aide. Her heart was to always love, care for, and serve people. She loved big family dinners where her specialty was homemade chicken and noodles, a recipe she loved to teach her grandkids and anyone else.

As much as she loved big family meals, she treasured impromptu visits from friends, neighbors, and family. She was always ready with a meal, a cup of coffee or sweet tea, and a hug. She loved people and she loved well.

More than anything else, she loved and served the Lord. She came to know the Lord on Flag Day as a young girl. She always helped in her local church. She was a Sunday school teacher, a Bible study leader, and served meals to the church body, through Meals on Wheels.

She was nominated for and served as the National Day of Prayer Coordinator for Clinton, MO, a great honor that combined her love of God and Country. She spent over 20 years serving under Pastor Jim Freeman at Friendly Pentecostal and the last 5 years at her brother Tom Smiths church, Straight Up Ministries.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Elmer Lee Elliott, her parents, mother-in-law and father-in-law, 1 sibling: Bob Smith and one beautiful grandson, Daniel Wayne Bass.

She is survived by her 7 children; Donnie Elliott (Marie), Debbie Sawyer (Don), Brenda Elliott (Don), Tammy Holman (Mike), Tim Elliott (Shelley), Laretha Hulse (Kevin), and Jon Elliott, as well as 30 grandchildren, and 40 great grandchildren; brothers Gary Smith (Mary), Wayne Smith, Tom Smith (Vickie), brother-in-law's James Dempsey and Frank Baker, sister Sandy Devosha (Bernie), a host of nieces and nephews who loved her deeply and fully, other relatives, and many friends.

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