Deaths

Jack Lyle

Jack L. Lyle, 93, Barnard, died Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at home with family at his side. Funeral services will be at 1:30 pm, Friday, February 25 at the Bram Funeral Home, Maryville. The burial will follow in the Prairie Home Cemetery, Graham. No formal visitation is planned. Memorials are suggested to the Bethany Christian

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Marilyn Grace

Marilyn Anne Williams Grace, 92, Burlington Jct., died Sunday, February 20, 2022, at the Maryville Living Center, Maryville. She was born October 29, 1929, in Maryville, to Charles and Bertha Boyer Williams. She was a 1947 graduate of Burlington Jct. High School and attended Northwest Missouri State College, Maryville. On August 29, 1948, she married

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Gwen Cornell

Gwendolyn “Gwen” Clare Pratt Cornell, 90, Maryville, formerly of Sun City, AZ, and San Diego, CA, died Saturday, February 19, 2022, at her home. She was born April 18, 1931, in Syracuse, NY, to Leon Eli and Florence Mildred Alvord Pratt. She married Paul R. Cornell in 1949, and they were married 72 years at

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Gary M. Wyatt

Gary M. Wyatt, 85, St. Joseph, formerly of Maryville, passed away on Monday, February 14, 2022, at Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph. Gary was born on February 6, 1937, in Canton, IL, to Nial and Alice Buie Wyatt. He was a 1955 graduate of Maryville High School and received his bachelor’s degree in business

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Margaret May Nelson

Margaret May Nelson passed from this life, at home with family by her side, February 11, 2022. Margaret was born at home in rural Taylor County, IA, April 28, 1944, to Albert Dean and Vada Majorie Cook Whipple. She attended elementary and junior high school at Conway and high school at Bedford, IA. After graduating

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Douglas Allee

Douglas Lee Allee was born June 11, 1957, in Albany to Doy and Shirley Thompson Allee. He departed this life at his residence on February 11, 2022. Doug graduated from the Sheridan High School with the class of 1975. After high school, Doug worked for Sur-Gro and joined the Missouri National Guard with 129th Field

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Bennett Davidson

Bennett Ellis Davidson, infant son of Anthony and Melanie Erks Davidson, died Saturday, February 12, 2022, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. Services will be at 10:30 am, Saturday, February 19 at Calvary Chapel in Maryville. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 9 to 10:30 am on Saturday

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Byron Stites

Byron Eugene Stites, 83, Hopkins, died Tuesday, February 8, 2022, at his home. He was born May 20, 1930, in Topeka, KS, to Elmer and Lela Garvitt Stites. He was a graduate of Hopkins High School. On July 17, 1956, he married Norma Rea DeMott in Hopkins. She preceded him in death on December 28,

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Edwin Staples

Edwin Earle Staples, 83, Mound City, died Sunday, February 13, 2022, at Tiffany Heights Nursing Home. He was born April 28, 1938, in Maryville, to Edwin Elbert and Dorothy Mae Walker Staples. He graduated from Maryville High School in 1956. On June 8, 1958, he married Shirley Ann Zion. She preceded him in death. Funeral

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Sandra Gillespie

Sandra Rasco Gillespie, 81, Albany, died Thursday, February 10, 2022, at Mosaic Life Care in Albany. She was born September 24, 1940, to Wendell and Bette Evans Rasco in Barnard. She attended South Nodaway School in Barnard and St. Joseph Junior College and Missouri Methodist School of Nursing in St. Joseph. She married Howard Lynch.

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