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Alice Lee Lanning

Alice Lee Lanning

Mar 4, 2014

Alice L. (Platter) Lanning, age 78 years, of Warsaw, Missouri passed away Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at Warsaw Health and Rehabilitation Center, Warsaw, Missouri. Graveside services will be held 1:00 P.M. Saturday, March 8, 2014 at Clinton Memory Gardens, Clinton, Missouri. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that memorial contributions be made to the Alice Lanning Memorial Fund...

William Dewitt Peters

William Dewitt Peters

Feb 27, 2014

William D. Peters, age 72 years, passed away Thursday, February 27, 2014 at his home in Leeton, Missouri. Funeral services will be held 10:30 A.M. Monday, March 3, 2014 at Drakes Chapel United Methodist Church, Clinton, Missouri. The family will receive friends Sunday, March 2, 2014 from 5:00-7:00 P.M. at the Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton, Missouri. Interment will be in Englewood...

Stevens Lee Raney

Stevens Lee Raney

Feb 24, 2014

Stevens L. Raney, age 69 years, of Clinton, Missouri passed away Monday, February 24, 2014 at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Stevens' wishes were to be cremated. No services are scheduled at this time. Fond memories and condolences may be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com. Stevens was born May 13, 1944 the son of Lonnie and Audrey (Shaffner) Raney....

Kyrie K. Snedeger

Kyrie K. Snedeger

Feb 22, 2014

Kyrie K. Snedeger, age 1 year, passed away Saturday, February 22, 2014 at Children's Mercy Hospital, Overland Park, Kansas. Funeral services will be held 2:00 P.M. Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at the Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton, Missouri. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will follow in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton, Missouri. Condolences for the family may...

Herbert E. Mccollum

Herbert E. Mccollum

Feb 20, 2014

Herbert E. McCollum, age 66 years, passed away Thursday, February 20, 2014 at his home in Holden, Missouri. A memorial service will be held 7:00 P.M. Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at the Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton, Missouri. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Private family inurnment will follow at a later date. Fond memories and condolences...

Gladys Shirley Dunning

Gladys Shirley Dunning

Feb 20, 2014

Gladys Shirley Dunning, age 88 years, passed away Thursday, February 20, 2014 at her home in Clinton, Missouri. Funeral services will be held 2:00 P.M. Monday, February 24, 2014 at the Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton, Missouri. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. The family suggests memorial contributions to Twin Lakes Hospice and may be left in...

Betty Jo (Burt) Gregory

Betty Jo (Burt) Gregory

Feb 15, 2014

Betty Jo Gregory passed away at Golden Valley Memorial Hospital on February 15, 2014. She was born on May 15, 1923 to Jefferson and Mary (Smith) Burt at the family farm in Mt. Zion, Missouri (near Brownington, Missouri). She was named Josephine Elizabeth but was always known as Betty Jo. As a child Betty Jo enjoyed life as the youngest...

Ora Marie Wright

Ora Marie Wright

Feb 13, 2014

Ora Marie Wright, age 76, passed away on Thursday February 13, 2014. She was born at Harvard, Iowa on July 8, 1937 to Berbatious and Mary Cooper. She married Lorenzo "Bingo" Wright on July 18, 1964. She worked at Business Men's Assurance Company from 1957 to 1968 until her first son Greg was born. Her second son, Gary was born...

Ruby Mae Portwood

Ruby Mae Portwood

Feb 8, 2014

Ruby M Portwood, daughter of Homer and Ethel Spickler, was born March 30, 1929 in Henry County, and died Saturday Feb 8th at NorthCare Hospice in North Kansas City Missouri. Ruby moved to Kansas City in 1945 and later married Curtis E Portwood on September 6th, 1947. Their marriage lasted 55 years until his death in 2002. She was preceded...

Ervin Phillip "Corky" Graef

Ervin Phillip "Corky" Graef

Feb 8, 2014

Ervin Phillip "Corky" Graef passed away Saturday, February 8, at the Missouri Veteran's Home in St. Louis. He was 92. Corky was born September 14, 1921, near Urich, Missouri, the third son of Albert and Inez Long Graef. He became a member of the Urich Presbyterian Church (now Evangel Presbyterian Church) in 1939. He graduated from Urich High School in...

Randall Boyd Vaneaton

Randall Boyd Vaneaton

Feb 6, 2014

Randall Boyd VanEaton, age 59 years, of Clinton, Missouri passed away Thursday, February 6, 2014 at Golden Valley Memorial Hospital, Clinton, Missouri. Funeral services will be held 11:00 A.M. Monday, February 10, 2014 at the Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton, Missouri. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will be in Clinton Memory Gardens, Clinton, Missouri. The...

Janice Wendegatz

Janice Wendegatz

Feb 6, 2014

Janice Kay Wendegatz, age 74 years, passed away Thursday, February 6, 2014 at her home in Clinton, Missouri. Funeral services will be at 2:00 P.M., Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton. The family will recieve friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will be in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton, Missouri. The family suggests memorial contributions to C.A.R.E. and...

Sharon K. Wilson

Sharon K. Wilson

Feb 5, 2014

Sharon K. Wilson, age 68 years, passed away Wednesday, February 5, 2014 surrounded by her loving family members at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri. Funeral services will be held 10:00 A.M. Saturday, February 8, 2014 at the Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton, Missouri. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will be in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton,...

Sandra S. Martinez

Sandra S. Martinez

Feb 5, 2014

Ms. Sandy Stansbury Pfeifer, age 68, died Wednesday evening February 5, 2014 at the home of her daughter in Clinton, Missouri. Sandy's wishes were to be cremated. Memorial services and inurnment will be held at a later date. Fond memories and condolences can be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com. Sandy was born May 27, 1945 in Cheyenne Wells, Colorado the daughter...

Ruth Ann Simison

Ruth Ann Simison

Feb 4, 2014

Ruth Ann Simison, age 84, of Clinton, Missouri passed away at her home on February 4, 2014. Graveside services will be held at 2:00PM on Monday, February 10, 2014, in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton, Missouri. Ruth Ann will lie in state at the Chapel from 9:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Monday before the graveside service. Memorial contributions may be made to...

Phillip E. Dreckman

Phillip E. Dreckman

Jan 25, 2014

Phillip E. Dreckman, born January 1, 1937, died at age 77 on January 25, 2014 in Denver, Colorado. He was preceded in death by his parents: Frank E. and Olive; his sister, Genevieve (who died at two days old); his brother, Frank J.; and his sister-in-law, Lois. He remained single. He is survived by his nephew, Frank W.; his nephew,...

Walter Lee Brown

Walter Lee Brown

Jan 25, 2014

Walter Lee (Pete) Brown, son of Walter Everette and Leah Eunice (Carder) Brown departed this life on Saturday, January 25, 2014 in Fulton, Missouri. Funeral services will be held 2:00 P.M. Friday, January 31, 2014 at the Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton, Missouri. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will be in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton, Missouri....

William "Leray" Hart

William "Leray" Hart

Jan 24, 2014

William "LeRay" Hart age 63 of Clinton, Missouri, passed away Friday, January 24th, 2014 at his home. Funeral services will be held 11:00 A.M. Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at the Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton, Missouri. A masonic service will be held at 9:30 A.M. followed by the visitation from 10:00-11:00 A.M. Interment will be in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton, Missouri. The family...

Lester Leroy Bramell, Sr.

Lester Leroy Bramell, Sr.

Jan 24, 2014

Lester Leroy Bramell. Sr. age 74 of Urich, MO, passed away, Friday, January 24th, 2014 at his home. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, Janaury 28, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. at the Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton with burial in White Oak Cemetery, Urich, Missouri. The family will receive friends one hour before the service on Tuesday at the chapel. Family suggests...

Virginia E. Stephenson

Virginia E. Stephenson

Jan 24, 2014

Virginia Elderene Stephenson (née Foster) died peacefully in the early hours of January 24, 2014, at Clinton Health Care and Rehabilitation Center in Clinton, Missouri. She was 86 and had long suffered from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Virginia was born September 2, 1927, in Columbia, Tennessee, the daughter of Gracie Clementine Hood and Albert Foster. Proud of her Cherokee...

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