U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014LINDELL JACKSON
LINDELL EARL JACKSON OF LEADWOOD, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT CADET, MISSOURI ON JANUARY 13, 1942. HE WAS THE SON OF THE LATE DAVID DANIEL AND LONA MAE(MESEY) JACKSON. LINDELL DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE MINERAL AREA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ON FEBRUARY 8, 2003 HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SIXTY-ONE YEARS AND TWENTY-SIX DAYS.
LINDELL WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JANET SUE MACKLEY ON OCTOBER 3, 1963 IN FARMINGTON, MISSOURI AND TO THIS UNION SIX CHILDREN WERE BORN.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, JANET SUE JACKSON OF LEADWOOD, DAUGHTERS, REBECCA SUE ABNEY OF LEADWOOD, TAMMY LYNNE JACKSON OF LEADWOOD, BARBARA MARIE JACKSON AND JIM CUNNINGHAM OF LEADWOOD, ROSEMARY ANN JACKSON OF LEADWOOD AND LINDA GAIL JACKSON OF LEADWOOD, SON, LINDELL ANTHONY "TONY" JACKSON OF LEADWOOD, SISTERS, BARBARA KEEFE OF DESOTO AND ESTHER HENSON AND HUSBAND LARRY OF PARK HILLS, BROTHERS, MARVIN JACKSON AND WIFE EVA OF POTOSI AND DAVID JACKSON AND WIFE MARSHA OF DESOTO, GRANDCHILDREN, FARZANEH, MEAGAN AND MARCUS ZERESHKI, LARRY AND MIKE BENHAM, STEVEN AND CHRISTOPHER JACKSON AND HALI CUNNINGHAM, GREAT GRANDCHILD, JARED ANTHONY ECKHOFF, JR. AND SEVERAL NIECES, NEPHEWS, OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY BROTHERS, INFANT ROBERT VINCENT JACKSON, ANDREW JACKSON AND LEHMAN JACKSON.
STONEY, AS LINDELL WAS KNOWN BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS WAS A MEMBER OF THE LEADINGTON FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH AND PAST MEMBER OF THE UNITED STEELWORKERS UNION. HE WAS A DEALER OF GUNS, WHICH WAS HIS FAVORITE HOBBY. HE ENJOYED PLAYING GUITAR AND SINGING GOSPEL SONGS. LINDELL LOVED WATCHING WESTERN MOVIES, ESPECIALLY THOSE STARRING JOHN WAYNE AND ENJOYED LISTENING TO HANK WILLIAMS SONGS. HIS FAMILY CONSIDERED HIM THE BEST HUSBAND, FATHER AND GRANDFATHER. LINDELL WILL BE LOVINGLY REMEMBERED BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
VISITATION WAS HELD 5:00 PM TO 9:00 PM ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2003 AND 8:30 AM TO 10:00 AM ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2003 AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
A FUNERAL SERVICE WAS CONDUCTED AT 10:00 AM AT THE MOORE MEMORIAL CHAPEL WITH PASTOR CRAIG BODENSCHATZ OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN THE SUNSET HILL CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, JIM CRANE, JARED ECKHOFF, MIKE BENHAM, LARRY BENHAM, JIM CUNNINGHAM AND BOBBY McMAHAN.
EDWIN W. POLITTE
EDWIN WILLIS POLITTE WAS BORN FEBRUARY 21, 1920 AT RICHWOODS, MISSOURI TO LOUIS A. POLITTE AND ETHEL WILKINSON. HE DIED AT HIS HOME ON FEBRUARY 17, 2003 HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF 82 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 27 DAYS.
ON APRIL 8, 1940 HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MARY CATHERINE BOYER AND TO THIS UNION 16 CHILDREN WERE BORN.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE CATHERINE, HIS CHILDREN, DEACON GLENNON (CAROL) OF BARNHART, EDWIN L. (NANCY) OF CADET, DEACON JERRY (VAL) OF HERCULANEUM, BILL (DIANA) OF ARNOLD, RUSS (SANDY) OF BARNHART, JIM (CAROLYN) OF CADET, DEACON STEVE (JOYCE) OF CADET, MARY ANN (DALE PRATT) OF CADET, JEANNIE BROWN OF POTOSI, MONICA (DAVID PRATT) OF CADET, JOSEPH (DEEANN) OF FESTUS, DENNIS (VICKI) OF HERCULANEUM, DAVID (KATHY) OF CADET, AND RICK (MARCIA) OF CADET. HIS BROTHER VICTOR (IRENE) OF HERCULANEUM AND TWO SISTERS DONNA VITZ OF PANA AND AUDREY (VIRGIL JARVIS) OF ST. LOUIS, ONE SISTER-IN-LAW, DOROTHY (JAMES) OF FESTUS.
EDWIN WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO DAUGHTERS, INFANT JUDITH ANN AND CATHERINE (KITTY) PORTELL, TWO INFANT TWIN GRANDDAUGHTERS, KATHRYN AND KAREN POLITTE, ONE GREAT GRANDSON, KEVIN POLITTE, TWO BROTHERS, LAWRENCE AND JAMES, THREE SISTERS, GENEVIEVE BOYSTER, HENRIETTA LEWIS AND BERNICE ROSS.
ED AND CATHERINE WERE BLESSED WITH 71 GRANDCHILDREN, 82 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND 3 GREAT- GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
ED SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE U.S. ARMY AND WAS A DISABLED WORLD WAR II VETERAN, HAVING RECEIVED THE PURPLE HEART AND BRONZE STAR AMONG HIS MEDALS. HE NEVER LET HIS DISABILITY PREVENT HIM FROM WORKING TO RAISE A LARGE FAMILY. ED WAS CAPABLE OF MAKING FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE HE MET. ED'S CATHOLIC FAITH WAS CENTRAL IN HIS LIFE. HE WAS A MEMBER OF ST. JOACHIM CHURCH IN OLD MINES. HE WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS #5936 AND CARDINAL GLENNON 4TH DEGREE.
A VERY TALENTED CARPENTER, HIS WORKS ARE CHERISHED BY MANY FAMILY AND FRIENDS. ED WAS AN AVID CARDINAL BASEBALL FAN. HE LOVED CUTTING GRASS, PLAYING EUCHRE AND PLAYING BINGO.
HE HAD A SPECIAL PLACE IN HIS HEART FOR EACH ONE IN HIS FAMILY AND HAD A NICKNAME FOR ALMOST EACH ONE. ED'S LIFE WAS LIKE A BOOK AND HE MADE HIS PLACE IN THE CHAPTERS OF MANY LIVES. ALL WHO CAME TO KNOW HIM WILL SADLY AND FONDLY MISS HIS SMILE.
VISITATION WAS HELD 3:00 PM TO 9:00 PM ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2003 AND 8:30 AM TO 9:45 AM ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2003 AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
A FUNERAL MASS WAS CELEBRATED 10:00 AM ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2003 AT THE ST. JOACHIM CATHOLIC CHURCH WITH FATHER TED PIEPER OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN THE ST. JOACHIM CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, EDWIN POLITTE, JR., TOM POLITTE, JR., BILL POLITTE JR., JAMES DARRELL POLITTE II, RUSS POLITTE JR., PATRICK POLITTE, PAUL PRATT, CHRIS BROWN, AUSTIN PRATT, NICK PORTELL, JOEY POLITTE, ADAM POLITTE, JORDAN POLITTE AND ROBBIE LITTERAL.
DORA MAY PORTELL
DORA MAY PORTELL OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT FOUNTAIN FARM, MISSOURI ON MAY 9, 1919. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE ADAM AND IDA B. (WEST) BARNES. DORA DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE PARKLAND HEALTH CENTER ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2003 HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF EIGHTY-THREE YEARS, NINE MONTHS AND THIRTEEN DAYS.
DORA WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO NELSON ANTHONY PORTELL ON JUNE 12, 1936 IN CADET, MISSOURI AND TO THIS UNION SEVEN CHILDREN WERE BORN. NELSON PRECEDED HIS WIFE IN DEATH ON AUGUST 25, 1990.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY DAUGHTERS, MARCELLA MILLER AND HUSBAND LYNN OF FENTON, MISSOURI, NANCY RUTH MEADE AND HUSBAND GENE OF ST. CLAIR, MISSOURI, MARCIA DIANE ADAMS AND HUSBAND DALE OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI AND MYRA SUE WELCH AND HUSBAND JOHN OF HARTSHORN, MISSOURI, SONS, BOB NELSON PORTELL AND WIFE ALICE OF CADET, MISSOURI AND MELVIN KENT PORTELL AND WIFE CHARLOTTE OF CADET, MISSOURI, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, EDITH PORTELL OF CADET, MISSOURI, SISTERS, DOLLY EYE AND HUSBAND AL OF ARNOLD, MISSOURI, MABEL NORTHCUTT OF ST. CLAIR, MISSOURI AND RUTH NORTHCUTT OF FENTON, MISSOURI, TWENTY-TWO GRANDCHILDREN, TWENTY-NINE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND TWO GREAT, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS AND HUSBAND SHE IS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY SON, JESSE "BUCKY" PORTELL, HALF-SISTER, GEORGIE WILSON, BROTHER, JESS BARNES, HALF-BROTHER, RAYMOND PATTERSON AND GRANDDAUGHTER, DIANA BOYER.
DORA WAS A MEMBER OF THE SPRINGTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH WHERE SHE ENJOYED SINGING GOSPEL MUSIC. SHE ENJOYED THE MANY GIFTS OF MOTHER NATURE BY GOING CAMPING WITH FAMILY AND TAKING WALKS IN THE WOODS. DORA LIKED PLAYING SCRABBLE AND WORKING CROSSWORD AND JIGSAW PUZZLES. SHE ENJOYED GOING TO GARAGE SALES AND LOVED LOOKING AT BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS. DORA WILL BE LOVINGLY MISSED BY FAMILY AND MANY FRIENDS, ESPECIALLY REV. GUY AND CINDY CONWAY, HER VERY CLOSE AND DEAR FRIENDS.
LIFE IS SO UNCERTAIN- HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW, SO DEAR LOVED ONES- JUST THOUGHT I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE A NOTE JUST IN CASE I GO AHEAD OF YOU, JUST LIKE OUR BUCKY DID AHEAD OF ME- I LOVE YOU ALL VERY MUCH AND HOPE THE GOOD LORD LEAVES ME AROUND FOR QUITE AWHILE YET. JUST WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE "FIRST TO WITNESS A LOT MORE FOR HIM," "BUT I AM READY, AND THAT IS WHAT REALLY COUNTS- SO, "YOU THAT DON'T KNOW JESUS AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR, ASK HIM TO COME INTO YOUR HEART TO LIVE, AND FORGIVE YOU OF YOUR SINS, BELIEVING THAT HE DIED FOR YOU. PUTTING GOD FIRST IN YOUR LIVES, THEN LIVE EACH DAY TO ITS FULLEST, BE HAPPY IS MY LAST REQUEST FOR EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU. P.S. DO NOT GRIEVE FOR ME THERE IS A BETTER LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE. WILL WRITE MORE LATER IF I GET AT IT - IF NOT SEE YOU LATER. LOVE YOU, MOM
VISITATION WAS HELD 4:00 PM TO 9:00 PM ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2003 AND 8:30 AM TO 10:00 AM ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2003 AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
A FUNERAL SERVICE WAS CONDUCTED AT 10:00 AM ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2003 AT THE MOORE MEMORIAL CHAPEL WITH REV. TED MOORE AND REV. JOHN EDWARDS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN THE SUNSET HILL CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, GORDON MILLER, BOBBY PORTELL, MIKE PORTELL, JESSE PORTELL, LYNN MILLER II AND TOMMY MILLER.
VIOLET BEATRICE EVANS
VIOLET (PITTMAN) EVANS OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, WAS BORN JANUARY 16, 1924, IN CHILTON, MISSOURI, A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE ANDREW FRANKLIN AND MARY ELIZABETH (ROY) PITTMAN. VIOLET DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT GEORGIAN GARDENS NURSING HOME ON APRIL 14, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS, TWO MONTHS AND TWENTY-NINE DAYS.
VIOLET IS SURVIVED BY TWO SONS, ROBERT FITZGERALD AND WIFE INA OF IRONDALE, JERRY FITZGERALD AND WIFE CAROL OF POTTSTOWN, PA, ONE DAUGHTER, MARY FRANCES LEAVITT OF ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, TEN GRANDCHILDREN, NINE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, TWO GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, ONE BROTHER, DONALD PITTMAN AND WIFE IMOGENE OF POTOSI, TWO SISTERS, MAVIS CHARBONEAU OF POTOSI, LUCILLE SANDERS OF POTOSI AND BY SEVERAL NIECES, NEPHEWS OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER FIRST HUSBAND, EVERETT FRANCIS FITZGERALD WHO passed away ON NOVEMBER 18, 1974 AND HER SECOND HUSBAND, DAVID J. EVANS WHO passed away ON APRIL 9, 1999.
VIOLET WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE PLEASANT HILL CHRISTIAN CHURCH, POTOSI. VIOLET LOVED THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRYSIDE THAT SHE LIVED IN AND ENJOYED CAMPING AND TRAVELING THROUGHOUT IT. VIOLET ENJOYED TAKING TIME TO RELAX READING A VARIETY OF BOOKS. HER FAMILY MEANT A GREAT DEAL TO HER AND EACH OF THEM HELD A VERY DEAR PLACE IN HER HEART.
VISITATION WAS HELD FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1999, FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1999, AT 11:00 A.M. AT THE GUM & SON CHAPEL WITH ELDER LEONARD COMPTON OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN PLEASANT HILL CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, ALLEN SHEPARD, TOM FITZGERALD, STEVE HUITT, MARVIN BERRY, CLAUDE BERRY AND BILL KING.
NELLIE KING
NELLIE M. KING OF SCOTT CITY, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI ON FEBRUARY 23, 1911. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE FRED AND MARY MAY (BONE) DAY. NELLIE DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE CHAFFEE NURSING HOME IN CHAFFEE, MISSOURI ON FEBRUARY 27, 2003 HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF NINETY-TWO YEARS AND FOUR DAYS.
NELLIE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO THEODORE W. KING ON FEBRUARY 26, 1927 IN POTOSI, MISSOURI AND TO THIS UNION FIVE CHILDREN WERE BORN. THEODORE PRECEDED HIS WIFE IN DEATH ON JULY 27, 1989.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY DAUGHTER, LINDA CHARBONEAU AND HUSBAND LAWRENCE OF RICHWOODS, MISSOURI, SON, CARL KING OF SCOTT CITY, MISSOURI, NINE GRANDCHILDREN, TWENTY-TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND MANY GREAT, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS AND HUSBAND SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY DAUGHTER, MARTHA SCHRUM, SONS, T.W. KING, JR. AND STANLEY KING, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, JANICE KING AND GRANDSON, RICHARD SCHRUM.
NELLIE ENJOYED TAKING CHANCES BY ENTERING SWEEPSTAKES AND PLAYING BINGO. NELLIE ENJOYED COOKING FOR HER FAMILY. SHE WILL BE LOVINGLY MISSED BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
VISITATION WAS HELD 1:00 PM TO 2:00 PM ON SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2003 AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
A FUNERAL SERVICE WAS CONDUCTED 2:00 PM ON SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2003 AT THE MOORE MEMORIAL CHAPEL. BURIAL WAS IN THE SUNSET HILL CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
MARY HORTON
MARY GALE HORTON OF BELGRADE, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT OATES, MISSOURI ON FEBRUARY 10, 1944. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE LAWNIE BARTON AND ZELLA MARIE VOLNER. MARY DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HER HOME FEBRUARY 28, 2003 HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF FIFTY-NINE YEARS AND EIGHTEEN DAYS.
MARY WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JAMES LEE HORTON ON DECEMBER 2, 1963 IN BELGRADE, MISSOURI AND TO THIS UNION SIX CHILDREN WERE BORN.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY DAUGHTER, KIMBERLY STATLER AND HUSBAND TERRY OF BELGRADE, MISSOURI, SONS, MARK HORTON OF BELGRADE, MISSOURI, JIMMIE HORTON OF IRONTON, MISSOURI, LONNIE HORTON AND WIFE JONNIE OF BELGRADE, MISSOURI, GREG HORTON AND WIFE JOYCE OF BIXBY, MISSOURI AND MIKE HORTON OF BELGRADE, MISSOURI, SISTERS, LELA STRICKLAN AND HUSBAND JOE OF BELLEVIEW, MISSOURI, BETTY ASHER AND HUSBAND GARY OF BELLEVIEW, MISSOURI, PEGGY BROWERS AND HUSBAND RONNIE OF BISMARCK, MISSOURI AND CATHI MAYBERRY AND HUSBAND RONNIE OF IRONTON, MISSOURI, BROTHER GUY BARTON AND WIFE BRENDA OF GRANITEVILLE, MISSOURI, ELEVEN GRANDCHILDREN AND SISTERS-IN- LAW, BARB VOLNER OF BELLEVIEW, MISSOURI AND DAISY MCCABE OF GRANITEVILLE, MO. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS AND HUSBAND SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY BROTHERS, VERNON VOLNER, ROY VOLNER AND JERRY VOLNER.
VISITATION WAS HELD SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2003 FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AND SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2003 FROM 10:00 A.M. TO 2:00 P.M. AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI, MISSOURI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2003 AT 2:00 P.M. AT THE MOORE MEMORIAL CHAPEL WITH REVEREND ED HORTON. BURIAL WAS IN THE HORTON Cemetery, BELGRADE, MISSOURI. SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE MARSHALL STRICKLAN, RICKY HORTON, RONNIE BROWERS, ERIC STRICKLAN, JEFF ASHER AND GARY ASHER. ALL SERVICES WERE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MOORE FUNERAL HOMES, POTOSI, MISSOURI.
