Mrs. Cora Lee Tice d. 2 August 1965

MRS. CORA LEE TICE

WILLOW SPRINGS---Funeral services for Mrs. Cora Lee Tice, 96, Willow Springs, will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Methodist Church at Waynesville. The Rev. George Turner will officiate and burial will be in Waynesville Cemetery under direction of Burns of Willow Springs.

Mrs. Tice, the widow of Dr. LaVega Tice died Monday in Connelly Nursing Home in Springfield.

Surviving are a son, Dr. Arthur L. Tice, Crocker; a sister, Mrs. Stella Claiborn, Big Timber, Mont.; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Springfield Leader and Press
Springfield, Missouri
4 August 1965
Page 26

Walter Spalding d. 16 October 1965

WAYNESVILLE- Funeral services for Walter Spalding, 67, Waynesville, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Moss-Williams Chapel here with the Rev. Wilson Davis and the Rev. Leroy Belche officiating. Burial will be in Waynesville Memorial Cemetery.

Mr. Spalding, a retired farmer, died at his home near here at 2:15 p.m. Saturday.

Survivors include his wife, Lovina; and a brother, Robert, Delavan, Ill.

Springfield Leader and Press
Springfield, Missouri
18 October 1965
Page 21

Luther Green Blair d. 18 July 1965

WAYNESVILLE- Luther Green Blair, 73, Waynesville, died Sunday at 8:45 a.m. in the Pulaski County Hospital here. The retired Waynesville businessman had been ill for some time.

He is survived by his wife, Marie, of the home; four sons, Richard and Luther, Jr., of the home, Manuel, Camdenton, and Thurl, Roach; four daughters, Susan, of the home; Mrs. Dobie McCulley, Freeman, Mrs. Beulah Nelson and Mrs. Evelyn Kincade, Levasy; two brothers, the Rev. Corbett Blair, Tulsa, Okla., John Blair, Camdenton; four sisters, Mrs. Bertha Davis, Reeds Spring, Mrs. Dollie Byrom, Cape Fair, Mrs. Gertie Hedrick, Laird Hill, Tex.; and Mrs. Laura Compton, Corona, Calif.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the First Baptist Church here, with the Rev. Wilbur Harbaugh officiating. Burial under direction of Moss-Williams will be in Waynesville Memorial Cemetery.

Springfield Leader and Press
Springfield, Missouri
20 July 1965
Page 16

Bobbi June Butcher d. 29 June 1965

WAYNESVILLE- Funeral services for Bobbi June Butcher, two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Butcher, of Waynesville, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Waynesville Church of Christ with Cecil Shelton officiating. Burial will be in Waynesville Memorial Cemetery under direction of Moss-Williams.

The child died early Tuesday morning in the Pulaski County Hospital here.

Besides her parents, the child is survived by her maternal grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Burnett, Crocker; paternal grandmother, Mrs. Glenn Rowden, Waynesville; paternal grandfather, Erwin D. Butcher, Waynesville.

Springfield Leader and Press
Springfield, Missouri
30 June 1965
Page 43

John Ross Hill d. 15 June 1965

WAYNESVILLE- Funeral services for John Ross Hill, 59, of Route 1, Waynesville, who was killed in a tractor accident Tuesday, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the West Side Baptist Church here. An Army chaplain from Fort Leonard Wood and the Rev. Billy Hargrove will officiate.

Military honors and pallbearers will be furnished by personnel from Fort Leonard Wood. Burial will be in Waynesville Memorial Cemetery.

Mr. Hill is survived by his wife Helen; a brother, Ben of Lorene, Calif., a sister, Mrs. Wilene Wyatt of Oak lawn, Ill.; a son, John of San Antonio; a step-son, Gary Burgess, Waynesville, and four grandchildren.

Springfield Leader and Press
Springfield, Missouri
17 June 1965
Page 51

Samuel Wiley Crossland d. 15 March 1965

WAYNESVILLE- Funeral services for Samuel Wiley Crossland, 79, who died at 8 p.m. Monday in his home here, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the First Baptist Church here. The Rev. Virgil Manes will officiate and burial will be in Waynesville Memorial Cemetery under direction of Moss-Williams.

A member of the First Baptist Church here, he is survived by his wife, Dora, Crystal City; two daughters, Mrs. Aline Sanders, Festus, and Mrs. Imogene Winchell, St. Louis; a brother Tom, St. Clair; three sisters, Mrs. Maggie Graves, Waynesville, Mrs. Addie Bostwick, Guthrie, Okla., and Mrs. Rosie York, Swedeborg; four grandchildren and two great-granddaughters.

Springfield Leader and Press
Springfield, Missouri
17 March 1965
Page 32

Dan Luther Pippin 1926-1965

Ex-Mizzou Cage Star Dan Pippin Is Found Dead

FULTON, Mo. (AP)  Dan L. Pippin, captain of the championship U.S. Olympic basketball team in 1952 and former cage star at the University of Missouri was found dead today in his car at a vacant farm house garage near McCredie, Mo.

Coroner Denzil C. Browning said the body was in a car from which a hose extended from the exhaust pipe through a window.

Browning said officers were notified by Mrs. Pippin that she had received a letter from her husband in which he said he planned to commit suicide and informed her where to send officers to find the body.

Pippin had failed to return to the family home at Auxvasse.

Pippin, 37, had been an insurance salesman.

Besides his wife and father, he is survived by three children.

Pippin attended the University of Missouri and entered military service in 1944.  After World War II, he played with the M.U. basketball team for three seasons, winning Big Seven Conference honors.

He was ranked 10th among the all-time University of Missouri basketball scorers with 802 points for his college career.

St. Joseph News-Press
April 1, 1965

20 October, 1926 - 31 March, 1965

Curtis McDowell 1907-1965

The body of 50-year-old Curtis McDowell, who lived in Camden County, near the Pulaski County line, was found Sunday night after he apparently shot himself the state patrol reported.

Ernest Harrison, a neighbor discovered McDowell's body at the victim's home about 7:45 p.m . Officers said McDowell, who had been shot in the forehead, apparently had been dead about four hours.

A .22 caliber rifle was found near the body, which was taken to the Moss-Williams Funeral Home.

Funeral services for Curtis McDowell, 58, a Route 3, Crocker farmer, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Hawkeye Baptist Church, near Crocker. Farris Wall will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery under the direction of Moss-Williams. Mr. McDowell was found dead about 7:45p.m. Sunday by a neighbor.

*Born 2 March 1907, Died 12 September 1965. Husband of Dora McDowell