R.T. Cauthon, age 89 years passed away Monday, May 23, 2016, at Big Spring Care Center, Humansville, Missouri. Funeral service will be held on Tuesday, May 31, at 11:00 am with visitation 1 hour prior at Vansant-Mills Funeral Home, Clinton. Interment will follow at King's Prairie Cemetery, Osceola, Missouri. Fond memories and condolences may be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com.

R.T. was born on October, 24, 1926 to Delbert and Nola Melinda (Shelton) Cauthon on a farm East of Gerster, Missouri. R.T. was married to Mary Ann (Winter) Cauthon for 68 years. They lived and raised their sons in Overland Park, Kansas. In 1989, after R.T. retired, they moved to Clinton. R.T. loved to garden, hunt and fish alongside his wife. At an early age R.T. showed a love of machinery. As a young teen he would finish plowing the fields to have dinner and on moonlit nights he would head back to the field just to drive the tractor. This love of machinery carried over as he became an adult and became a Master Mechanic and Welder.

He is preceded in death by his wife Mary Ann, who passed away on January 8, 2016; his parents; his brothers Cleo Cauthon, Leo Cauthon, and his sister Eva Gene Cauthon.

Among survivors are his brother J.D. Cauthon (Neta); his sons; Harold Lee Cauthon (Susan) and Randal Trent Cauthon (Lisa); 6 grandchildren, Jeremy Cauthon, Josh Cauthon, Ashley Hatcher, Raven Driemeyer, Angela Anderson, and Amy Slyker; 11 great-grandchildren; brother-in-laws, Wesley Winter (Mable) and Kenneth Winter (Billie); 2 sister-in-laws Linda Brooks(Bob), Bonnie Winter and many nieces and nephews.

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