Cedar County, Missouri Obituary Collection

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HAZEL LORENE BAILEY MOSHER
Hazel Lorene Bailey Mosher, 82, was born Dec. 5, 1908 in Stotts City, Mo. to Amanda Josephine Elliott Bailey and George R. Bailey. She passed away Sept. 23, 2001, at Meadowbrook Rehabilitation Hospital in Gardner, KS. Preceding her in death is her husband William Edwin Mosher, six brothers and sisters-William Bailey, John Bailey, George Bailey, Edith Keeling and Cora Theiss and a half sister, Jenny Bitner. Surviving are her three daughters-Donna L. Mosher Harleman, Lillian L. Mosher and Wilma J. Mosher Burnett; eight grandchildren-Donald Ray Harleman, Rita Louis Harleman Ryser, Ronald Earl Harleman, Cheryl Lynn Mosher Cook, Brian James Francis, William Ray Francis, Dr. David James Burnett and Angela Burnett Resch; six great-grandchildren; eight great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. She will be sadly missed by all her friends but fondly remembered by everyone who had the privileged to know her.
When Hazel was about three years old, her father was killed in a mining accident. Her mother was pregnant with her brother, George, at the time. She soon remarried a man she thought would be a good husband to her and be a good father to her children. This proved to be very wrong.
Hazel's older brothers, Bill and John, decided to run away from the abuse and she was sent to Missouri, down in Vernon County”.
Hazel worked as a cook in the Schell City Public Schools for 15 years. She loved every minute of it. She loved the hundreds of students whose lives she touched and they loved her. (They especially loved her homemade hot rolls and fresh baked cookies).
Life was never easy for Hazel. Just at the time when the kids were grown and gone and life should have been a little easier, her husband, Edwin, suffered a stroke. She cared for him in their home for about 10 years until his death on July 7, 1980.
Even though life was filled with trials and tribulations, few people, not even her closet friends ever knew of the sorrow and heartbreak that she often felt. She had the ability to put aside the problems of her personal life and approach those around her with a warm heart, open arms and a genuine smile. In the fifth grade, her grandson Brian had to write a poem on the happiest person he had ever known. He wrote about his Grandma Hazel.
Hazel loved going shopping with friends. Almost before she hung up her phone, she had both shoes on and one arm already in her coat ready to go. She looked forward to the bus ride with her friends to the Senior Center. There they would have lunch, play cards and have lots of laughs.
She also loved going to Kansas City to be with her daughter, Wilma and her two grandsons, Brian and Bill. On one of her trips, they took her to Worlds of Fun where she rode her first roller coaster. Brian had never ridden one and wasn't going to either until his 70-some-year-old grandmother chided him into riding with her. After the ride, they rode again and again.
Another highlight was her dream trip of a lifetime to the west coast with four good friends from Schell City. She was thrilled with everything they experienced. Her only regret was that she didn't get to wade in the ocean. She mention this several times so Wilma and grandson Bill hopped aboard a TWA plane and took grandma to Missouri for 30 years. He was superintendent in El Dorado Springs during the 1980's. He was also a Marine veteran.
Services were at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 3, in Greenlawn South with burial in Hazelwood Cemetery.

SAM MCCORMICK
Rennie Samuel (Sam) McCormick, 61, El Dorado Springs, passed away Friday, March 29, 2002, at his home. He was born June 26, 1940, in Walker to Estal Floyd (Jack) and Hazel (Taylor) McCormick.
In his early years he worked at Ford Motor Company in Kansas City and then went to work for a telephone cable company in Thompson in Nevada, who survives of the home. Also surviving are their children - a son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Amy Sparks, Sheldon, and two daughters - Linda Sparks, Lamar and Janice Seaton, Lamar; 12 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by three brothers - Steven, James and Hiram Sparks and by two sisters - Juanita McBride and Lula May Meyers.
He was a Baptist.
Services were held Tuesday, April 2, at Daniel Funeral Home, Lamar, with Bro. James McMullen officiating. Pallbearers were Robert Sparks, Robert Lawrence Jr. Kevin Dotson, Charles Seaton, Donnie Sparks and Mark Sparks.
Songs were “Daddy's Hands, “On the Wings of a Dove” and “Rock of Ages.”
Memorials may be given to the American Diabetes Association or the American Heart Fund.

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