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Pettis County, Missouri Obituary Collection

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Katherine Marie Craig

Katherine Marie Craig, 77, of Sedalia, born March 24, 1926, in Leeton, Missouri, daughter of Robert and Dolly Mae Williams Baird. On December 31, 1942, in Windsor, Missouri, she death by two brothers, George Baird and Ray Baird; and a sister, Jean Nipper.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Heckart/Gillespie Colonial Chapel with Dr. Donald Allcorn officiating.

Pallbearers will be eight of her grandsons, Craig Guffin, Bryon Guffin, Scott Langston, Justin Wolf, Nolan Smith, Cory Eppes, Brandon Smith and Colton Craig.

Burial will be in Memorial Park died Sunday morning, May 4, 2003, at Four Seasons Living Center.

She was married S.L. Cordry, who Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Wayne Tucker, Wayne Hutcheson, Tommie Klein, Herb Martin, Chris Meyer and Russell Vinson.

The family will receive friends from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at Heckart/Gillespie Funeral Home. Friends may call until 5 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

The family suggests memorial contributions to Bethany Baptist Church.

Dwight Gene Collister

Dwight Gene Collister, 60, of Sedalia, born June 1, 1943, in Sedalia, Missouri, son of Robert Emil and Lorene Mae Bennett Collister.

Mr. Collister was a member of Granite Lodge #272 A.F. and A.M. He worked for Menefee Construction Company before becoming a salesman for Cargil Feed Company and Purina Livestock Company. He then became a farmer raising registered polled Herefords. He loved gardening, sharing his ingenuity skills and knowledge with others, especially his grandchildren.

Survivors include two daughters, Tresa Killion of Houstonia and Christy Stone of Columbia; a son, Dwight Collister II of Sedalia; a brother, Bob Collister of Leawood, Kansas; two sisters, Debbie VanHoecke of Belton and Leah Rae Kinder of Alexandria, Virginia; and five grandsons. He was preceded in Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Friday at the Heckart/Gillespie Funeral Home.

The family suggests contributions to Bothwell Hospice.

Ruth G. Cole

Ruth G. Cole, 88, of Sedalia, born January 5, 1917, in Sedalia, daughter of William and Laura Eckhoff Jaekel. On November 22, 1945, in Sedalia, she Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until service time Wednesday at the funeral home.

The family suggests memorial contributions to Children’s Therapy Center or St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.

Joe Cockrell

Joe Elmer Cockrell, 58, of Sedalia, born July 25, 1946, in Ripley, Mississippi, son of Elmer and Grace Floyde Cockrell.

Mr. Cockrell was a member of the Sedalia Christian Center. He was a volunteer for the Lost Sheep Mission and the New Life Evangelistic Center Free Store. He enjoyed Levi, his Chihuahua, going to auctions and fishing.

Survivors include a son, Terry Joe Cockrell, of Sedalia; two daughters, Angela McKinzie and Melissa Cockrell, both of Ripley, Mississippi; two sisters, Jean Carr, of Ripley, Mississippi, and Gracie Grimes, of Tremont, Mississippi; a brother, Billy Cockrell, of Memphis, Tennessee; and a granddaughter.

He was predeceased by three brothers and two sisters.

Memorial services will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Heckart/Gillespie Colonial Chapel, with the Rev. Jack Menges officiating.

The family will receive friends from 6-7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be given to the family.

Dorothy Gertrude Clark

Dorothy Gertrude Clark, 92, of Otterville, born October 31, 1912, near Otterville, a daughter of Jabez H. and Mary Elizabeth Weaver Potter. In 1933, she died in 1972.

Mrs. Clark attended elementary school at the Brick School and high school at Otterville High School. She attended college at Central Methodist College in Fayette and Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg. She had lived in both Missouri and Tennessee.

Mrs. Clark was a member of Otterville Methodist Church. She was a homemaker and enjoyed cooking and gardening.

Survivors include a son, Farold B. “Sonny” Clark, and his wife, Marlayne, of Otterville; a daughter, Mary Sueann “Annie” Frisse, and her husband, Gary, of Otterville; a sister, Ada Sue Potter, of Sedalia; a brother, Samuel Steven Potter, Sr., of Sedalia; and two grandchildren, James S. Clark and Elizabeth S. Clark.

She was predeceased by a brother, Joe E. Potter, Sr.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004, at Heckart/Gillespie Colonial Chapel, with the Rev. Denzel Webb officiating.

Pallbearers will be Steve Schilb, James Clark and Gary Frisse.

Burial will be in I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Otterville.

The family will receive friends from 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, at Heckart/Gillespie Funeral Home.

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