Gladys Wilson d. 5 November 1966

MRS. RAYMOND WILSON

WAYNESVILLE- Funeral services for Mrs. Gladys Wilson, 46, of Waynesville, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the First Baptist Church here with the Rev. Wilbur Harbaugh and the Rev. Dallas Wells officiating. Burial will be in the Waynesville Memorial Cemetery under direction of Moss-Williams.

Mrs. Wilson died Saturday in Barnes Hospital in St. Louis.

Surviving are her husband, Raymond, and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Collins and Mrs. Pansye Smith, both of Waynesville.

Springfield Leader and Press
Springfield, Missouri
7 November 1966
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Irwin Ike Strauss d. 20 October 1966

WAYNESVILLE- Irwin Ike Strauss, 76, died at 11 p.m. Thursday at Pulaski County Hospital after a lingering illness. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Moss-Williams Chapel with Rev. George Pate officiating. Burial will be in Waynesville Memorial Cemetery.

He is survived by his wife, Hesta; four sons, Herman of Los Angeles, Virgil of Lebanon, Ind., Robert of Benton, Ill., Jim of Seattle, Wash.; four daughters, Wilma Shelton, of Cairo, Ill., Frances Patterson, Smithtown, Tenn., Berry Monroe, of Chattanooga, Tenn., Louetta Colman, Coranado, Alberta, Canada; one brother, Harry, Hazelcrest, Ill.; two sisters, Jessie Hayes, Marion, Ill., and Kathleen Johnson, Marion, Ill.; 16 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Springfield Leader and Press
Springfield, Missouri
22 October 1966
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John Huston McIntyre d. 2 September 1966

WAYNESVILLE- John Huston McIntyre, 72, Waynesville, died at 12:15 p.m. Friday in Pulaski County Hospital here.

A retired businessman, he is survived by his wife, Lina; a son, Leo, Tulsa, Okla.; three brothers, Marv, Cherryvale, Kan., Ed of Arkansas, and Clyde, Hillsboro, Ill.; and two grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in First Christian Church here with the Rev. William Walton officiating. Burial will be in Waynesville Memorial Cemetery under direction of Moss-Williams.

Springfield Leader and Press
Springfield, Missouri
3 September 1966
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Clennie Augusta Jones d. 22 August 1966

MRS. WALLACE JONES

WAYNESVILLE- Funeral services for Mrs. Clennie Augusta Jones, 44, of Fort Leonard Wood, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Main Post Chapel at Fort Wood with the Rev. Robert Bullard officiating.

Burial will be in Waynesville Memorial Cemetery under direction of Moss-Williams. An Eastern Star service is to be held at the Moss-Williams Chapel at 7 p.m. today.

Mrs. Jones died at 11 a.m. Monday in St. John's Hospital in Springfield after suffering an apparent heart attack. She had been a patient at the hospital one week.

She is survived by her husband, Wallace; one son, Wallace Lee, of the home; five daughters, Mrs, Vinnie Francis Hurlburt, Vidor, Tex., Mrs. Patricia Ladell Harris, Decatur, Ill., and Clara Mauretta, Linda Marie and Arnita Kay, all of the home; four sisters; six half-brothers and sisters; and three grandchildren.

Springfield Leader and Press

Springfield, Missouri

24 August 1966

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Earnest Pruitt (1913-1966)

Special thanks to John and Loriee Martin for sharing this obituary.

Earnest Pruitt 53,Richland died Thursday afternoon in his car, just west of Hazelgreen near the Gasconade River where he was planning to swim. A funeral home spokesman said Mr. Pruitt suffered an apparent heart attack. Surviving are a son, Raymond Lee, Richland, three brothers Clifford,Wilbur and Kermit all of Lebanon, two sisters Lillian Osborn, Lebanon and Oma Busick of California,and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2pm Sunday at Independence Baptist Church with Rev. Paul Swadley officiating. Burial will be in Hazelgreen Cemetery under Moss-Williams of Richland.