Ronald Lee Scranton, age 83, passed away Saturday, October 27, 2012 at Golden Living Center Westwood Clinton, Missouri. Funeral services will be held 2:00 P.M. Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at the Vansant-Mills Chapel with visitation one hour prior to the service. Interment will follow in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Samaritan Center or Twin Lakes Hospice, and may be left in care of the funeral home. Fond memories and condolences can be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com.

He loved fishing and the outdoors, playing cards (especially peaknuckle and pitch), and fixing things.

Ronald was preceded in death by his parents,Gerald and Lura (Rowley) Scranton, his wife, Clarice, sister, Margaret Marie, and brother, Robert Gerald.

Among survivors are one son, J.R. Scranton and wife, Amy Lynn; three daughters, Kathy Nepple and husband, Ron, Rhonda Robinson and husband, Irl, and Theresa Kaiser and husband Bernhard, all of Clinton, Missouri; five grandchildren, Matthew Robinson and wife Sarah, Ronald Turner and wife Angel, Richard Turner, Chad Nepple and wife Michelle, and Cara Moreland; 15 great-grandchildren, Anthony Turner, Kent Turner, Landon, Ella, and Lucia Robinson, Paige, Isaac, Neil, Quinn, and Simeon Grunig, Caleb Nepple, Hannah Nepple, Taylor Ebeling, Braeden Moreland, and Connor Moreland, sister, Margerite Jones of Georgetown, Utah, and nephews, Gary, Richard, and Raymond Quincy and family of Utah.

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