Victor Junior Fletcher

Victor Junior Fletcher, 86, Excelsior Springs, Mo., was born September 25, 1931 to Victor Ruel Fletcher and Helen Marie (Houston) Fletcher.  Victor and Helen also had another son, John Raymond.  Victor graduated from North Kansas City High School in 1949. Vic joined the U.S. Army, Artillery Division in January...

Geraldine Craig

Geraldine Craig, 92, Liberty, Mo., passed away March 7, 2018. Geraldine was born September 18, 1925 to James Cleo and Mammie (Whitney) Shull in Houstonia, Mo.  She was a charter member of Relevant Church where she played piano for many years. Geraldine and her late husband, Virgil, owned a...

Cathy Clevenger Wilmes Roberts

Cathy Jane (Clevenger) Wilmes Roberts, age 61, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 3, 2018, at Northcare Hospice House. Cathy was born February 19, 1957, in Liberty, Missouri, to Claude and Rosalee (Duncan) Clevenger.  She was a 1975 graduate of Winnetonka High School.  Cathy was married to Richard Wilmes...

Jane Metcalf

Jane Metcalf went to be with the Lord on March 2, 2018 surrounded by her loving family.  A beautiful Christian woman, Jane Metcalf raised a family of five childen: one boy and four girls.  She worked to support the family and did her best to give them the lesson...

Earnest O. “Buck” Freeman

Earnest O. “Buck” Freeman, 83, of Kearney, Mo., passed away Friday, March 2, 2018 at North Care Hospice House, North Kansas City Hospital. Buck was born to T.H. and Ellen Porter Freeman, December 11, 1924 in Walker, Mo., who preceded him in death along with his brother, Walter Lee,...

Kirby W. Barnes

Kirby W. Barnes passed away at home with his wife and children at bedside on March 1, 2018, at the age of 71.  He was born to Horace and Virginia (Steidley) Barnes of Adair County on July 13, 1946. He was preceded in death by his parents, grandparents, one...

Dorothy M. Williams

February 24, 1927 ~ February 27, 2018 A native Texan, Dorothy and her family moved to Waco in 1938. There she met the love of her life, George. They married in 1947, raised two children together, and made the best of a long and happy life. Dorothy was preceded...

Teresa Raechell Harrison

Teresa Raechell Harrison, 58, Lawson, died on Monday, February 26, 2018, after an extensive battle with cancer at Liberty Hospital. Teresa was born March 10, 1959, at Ray County Memorial Hospital to Leo Cooper Shelton, Jr. and Betty Lou Cole. She married Ronald Albert Harrison on May 11, 1985....

Dorothy Knipmeyer

Dorothy Jane Dinwiddie Knipmeyer of Excelsior Springs passed away Friday, February 23, 2018, at age 95, at the Excelsior Springs Nursing Home. She was born November 8, 1922 to Olive and Charles Dinwiddie. She graduated from Shelbina High School in 1940 and from Beauty School in 1946 and was...

Ashley Rae Terrell

Ashley Rae Terrell, with her family by her side, passed away peacefully on Friday, February 23, 2018.  She was 36 years old. Ashley was born to Jeannie and Stephen Terrell on August 20, 1981.  She began her life by sharing her birthday with her Nana.  Throughout her childhood, she...

Cyrus J. See

Cyrus J. See, 90, Kearney, Mo., closed his eyes and received his angel wings on February 10, 2018 at 8:04 a.m. Cyrus “Cy” or “CJ” was born on February 16, 1927 in Hardin, Mo. He is preceded in death by his parents, sister, son-in-law, Randy Carrico, brother-in-law, Lesley Edward...

Dorothy Swatt

Dorothy Swatt, age 85, resident of Lawson, Mo., passed away on Sunday, February 11, 2018, after a nine month courageous battle with hard palate of the mouth cancer.  She was the beloved wife of the late Victor Swatt; caring, wonderful and “always there” mother of Vickie, Janet, son-in-law Glenn Schneider, and loving grandmother of Nicholas,...