"B" OBITUARIES
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Cape
Girardeau, MO--FUNERAL SERVICE FRIDAY FOR MRS.
CHARLES BAHN--The
funeral for Mrs. Charles F. Bahn, 47 years old, who died of a heart
attack unexpectedly Wednesday forenoon (26 Nov 1975) at her home, 2418
Brookwood, will be held at 1:30 Friday afternoon at First Christian
Church.
The Rev. Max Jenkins, pastor, will conduct the service.
Burial
will be in Memorial Park. The body is at Ford and Sons
Funeral
Home, where friends may call after 4 this afternoon.
Pallbearers will be Dr. E. L. Bahn Jr., Taylor Bahn, William Bahn,
David Bahn, Gene Martin and Robert O. Hirsch.
Mrs. Bahn, the former Miss Betty Bowen Morrow, was born on Nov. 25,
1927, in Little Rock, AR. She and Dr. Bahn were married on
Dec.
27, 1949 in Newport, AR, where her parents lived. They moved
to
Cape Girardeau from New Orleans, LA in 1957, when Dr. Bahn opened his
medical practice.
Mrs. Bahn attended grade school in Newport, was in high school at
Norfolk, VA, then came to Cape Girardeau when her father was a
consulting engineer at Harris Field, now Municipal Airport.
She
was graduated from Central High School.
Following graduation there she attended SEMO State University and in
1949 was graduated with honors in English from the University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville.
A member of First Christian Church, she was active in the Faith Circle,
and was a past deaconess. She belonged to the Christian
Women's
Fellowship, Church Women United and was a member of Chapter BI, P.E.O.
Mrs. Bahn was also a member of the Cape County Medical
Auxiliary
and the Southeast Missouri Hospital Auxiliary.
Surviving are her husband; sons, Charles F. Jr., Christopher, Stuart
and Stephen Bahn, all at home; daughter, Miss Martel Bahn, at home; her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Morrow, Newport; and an uncle, Martel
Bowen, Dallas, TX. (Source: Jackson Archives)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO - RAY GRADY BENNETT, 87, died Oct. 7, 2001, at the Lutheran Home.
Born Dec. 20, 1913, in Magnolia, Ark., son of the late Oscar and Mary
Hill Bennett, he was a member of the Hanover Lutheran Church. He was a
crew member for the gas division of Union Electric in Dexter, Cape
Girardeau and Scott City and started the union at Missouri Utilities in
1949.
On July 25, 1939, at Brazil Mills, Neb., he married Emma Kruse Bennett who survives of Cape Girardeau.
Other survivors include: one son, Robert E. Bennett of Rich Hill; one
daughter, Carol A. Roth of Jackson; one sister, Lois Patterson of
Haywood, Calif.; and nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by one son, one brother and one sister.
Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Hanover Lutheran
Church, where services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday. The Rev.
Jeffrey Sippy and Assistant Vicar Matthew Cantu will officiate.
Burial will follow in the Eisleben Lutheran Cemetery at Scott City.
–Sikeston Standard Democrat, Wednesday, October 10, 2001 St. Petersburg, FL-- DR. ELMO BIDDISON,
94, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and formerly of St. Petersburg, died
Saturday (April 2, 1994). Born in Exline, Iowa, he lived in St.
Petersburg for several years before moving to Cape Girardeau in 1988.
He was a naturopath, practicing 46 years in Newcastle, Wyo. Survivors
include a son, Eddie I., St. Petersburg; a daughter, Diane Biddison
Morgan, Cape Girardeau; seven grandchildren; and 15
great-grandchildren. Ford and Sons Funeral Home, Cape Girardeau,
Mo. --St. Petersburg Times (FL) - April 6, 1994
Winter Park, FL-- VANITA G. BILOTTA,
86, Legion Drive, Winter Park, died Thursday, Sept. 9, of leukemia.
Mrs. Bilotta was a registered nurse and homemaker. Born in Gordonville,
Mo., she moved to Central Florida in 1950. She was a member of Orange
County Medical Society Auxiliary, Retired Officers Wives Club and
Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association. She was a
member of St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church. Survivors: son, Dr. Victor
J., St. Petersburg; daughters, June McNamara, Orlando, Alice Jackson,
Maitland, Ellen Bilotta-Moore, Winter Park; sisters, Clara Kiehne, Cape
Girardeau, Mo., Albertine Scherrer, Walnut Creek, Calif.; 10
grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Carey Hand Cox-Parker Funeral
Home, Winter Park. --Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - September
11, 1999
LESTER H. BIPPUS, 85 of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006 at Missouri Veterans Home. He was born Feb. 22, 1921 in Chicot
County, Ark., son of Otto Franklin and Vera Poole Bippus.
He and Frieda James were married Oct. 2, 1942 in Cape
Girardeau at First Church of God. She died in August
1974. He later married Lillian Vanover in 1975 in Butler,
Ind. She died in August 1984.
Mr. Bippus served in the Navy from Jan. 28, 1941 to Feb.
1, 1947. He was a Pearl Harbor Survivor. He received a
Good Conduct Medal, World War II Victory Ribbon, American
Theater Ribbon, American Defence Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific
Ribbon, Philippine-Liberation Ribbon, and Navy Unit
Commendation.
After his military service, Mr. Bippus worked for Meyer
Alberts Grocerer in Cape Girardeau 13 years. He then
worked for a metal foundry in San Francisco.
In 1984 he moved back to Missouri from Butler (Ind). He
was a member of First Church of God.
He is survived by a daughter, Janet Voelker (Coy) Willard
of Cape Girardeau; a stepson, Ronald (Kathy) Vanover of
Sellersburg, Ind; a stepdaughter, Ruth (Doug) Meyer of
Unity, Ohio; a daughter-in-law, Stella Bippus of Cape
Girardeau; two sisters, Dorothy Schlessor of Burlingame,
Calif., Wanda Johnson of Auburn, Ind.; four
grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a great-great
grandson; five stepgrandchildren; and four
great-step-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Frank Bippus, and a
brother, Otto Bippus.
There will be no visitation.
Graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at
Butler Cemetery in Butler (Ind) with full military
honors.
Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of local
arrangements.
TILMON R. BLOCKER,
76, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Jan. 28, 2008 at his home. He
was born Sept. 17, 1931, son of Tilmon and Ruth Russell Blocker.
He married Evelyn Fornkohl on March 18, 1961 in Marble Hill, MO.
He served in the United States Navy during the Korean War as a
GM3. He had been employed with Rose Barge Lines, Cape Poster and
the city of Cape Girardeau. Survivors include his wife, Evelyn
Blocker of Cape Girardeau; a daughter, Edith Lowes of Cape Girardeau;
and a grandchild. He was preceded in death by a sister.
Friends may call from 4:30 to 8 p.m. today at Lorberg
Memorial Funeral Chapel. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday
(Jan. 30, 2008) at the funeral home, with the Rev. Thomas Kiefer
officiating. Burial will be at Fairmont Cemetery in Cape
Girardeau with full military honors.
TOPEKA, KS - THEON MCLEARY BOWMAN,
88, Topeka, died Dec. 19, 1991, at a hospital in Topeka. She was born
in Millersville, Mo., and lived in Iowa and Atchison and Ottawa in
Kansas before moving to Topeka 11 years ago. Miss Bowman taught English
at the Atchison High School for more than 45 years before she retired
in 1971. She received a bachelor's degree in education from the
University of Kansas and did post-graduate work at Northwestern
University in Evanston, Ill., and at Washington University. She
attended the First United Methodist Church of Ottawa. Survivors include
a sister, Eloise B. "Sunny" Larson, Ottawa. Services will be at 2 p.m.
Monday at the Lamb-Roberts Chapel, Ottawa; graveside services will at 3
p.m. Monday at Highl and Cemetery, Ottawa. --Kansas City Star, The (MO)
- December 21, 1991
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO-- CLARIBEL "PAT" BREWER, a longtime elementary school teacher
in Kirkwood, died Saturday (April 23, 1994) of infirmities at the Lutheran
Nursing Home in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was 89.
Mrs. Brewer, of Jackson, Mo., retired in 1969 from the Kirkwood
School District, where she taught first grade at Keysor Elementary School for
nearly 40 years.
Mrs. Brewer grew up in Jackson and graduated in 1942 from Southeast
Missouri State Teacher's College, now Southeast Missouri State
University. Before teaching at Kirkwood, she taught first grade
in Brewer, Mo., and in Burlington, Iowa. She was active in the Missouri State Teachers Association.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Immaculate
Conception Catholic Church in Jackson. Burial will be in the Memorial Park
Cemetery in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8
p.m. today at the McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.
Among the survivors are her stepson, James Brewer of Kirkwood; four
stepdaughters, Jacqueline Becker, Evelyn Kessler, Betty Jean Breaver and Marilyn
Deusctmann, all of Kirkwood; a brother, Robert Rafferty of Jackson; a sister,
Cathryn White of Cape Girardeau; 22 grandchildren; and 34
great-grandchildren.
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - April 25, 1994 DELTA, MO - STELLA LOUISE BROWN, 66, died at 6:20 p.m. Oct. 19, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
Born Feb. 15, 1935, at Delta, daughter of the late John Fred Curtis and
Suddy Biri Jaco, she was a laundry supervisor at Cape La Croix Nursing
Home in Cape Girardeau before retiring. She was a member of the
Whitewater United Methodist Church.
On Oct. 20, 1951, she married Delmar Kenneth "Blue" Brown who preceded her in death on Aug. 16, 1985.
She was also preceded in death by four brothers and one granddaughter.
Survivors include: one son, Kenneth R. Brown of Marble Hill; four
daughters, Shirley Foulk and Carolyn Keller of Scott City, Jane Nall of
Benton and Nancy Garland of Marble Hill; two sisters, Blanch Foster of
San Diego, Calif., and Hettie McClard of Delta; and 12 grandchildren.
Friends may call after 4 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in
Chaffee where services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday with the Rev.
Steven Sanders officiating. Burial will follow in Union Park Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be: Chris Brown, David Brown, Dean Brown, Michael
Keller, Travis Keller and Shane Garland. Honorary pallbearers will be
Brent Garland and Seth Garland.
–Sikeston Standard Democrat, Monday, October 22, 2001.
Flint, MI– AVA M. BURLINGAME
of Flint, age 73, died Sunday, March 30, 1997 at Genesys Health Park.
Mass of Christian burial will take place 10AM Thursday, April 3, 1997
at St. Mary Catholic Church in Mt. Morris, Rev. Fr. Robert McKeon
officiating with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Mrs. Burlingame will
remain at the Miles Martin Funeral Home where friends may call 2-9PM
Wednesday and at the church on Thursday from 9AM until time of Funeral
Mass at 10AM. Family, friends, and parish will gather to pray the
Rosary at 7PM Wednesday. She was born June 27, 1923 in Delta, MO, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Acie Nelson and Lela Mae (Caudle) Hayes. She
was a member of Mt. Morris St. Mary Catholic Church and its Altar
Society. She retired in 1980 from Fisher Body Coldwater Plant after 27
years of service. She is survived by: 3 nephews and 1 niece, Robert
Glen Willett, of Hudson, FL; Jack L. Willet of Millington; Ronald L.
Willet of Indian Rocks Beach, FL; Shelby J. Baer of Grand Blanc. Martin
Funeral Home, locally owned and operated Mt. Morris Rd. between Dort
and Saginaw. --Flint Journal, The (MI) - April 1, 1997
Midlothian, TX--HEART STROKE TAKES PIONEER ON DALLAS VISIT--Funeral Services Set for Edward Byrd, 88, Oilman's Father-- EDWARD BYRD,
88 Midlothian, long-time resident of Texas and father of D. Harold
Byrd, Dallas Oilman and Texas wing commander of the Civil Air Patrol,
died of a heart attack here Thursday.
Mr. Byrd was stricken as he walked along St. Paul in front of the
Federal Building shortly before noon Thursday and was dead on arrival
at Parkland Hospital.
A native of Missouri, Mr. Byrd was the grandson of pioneers who had
pushed westward in 1799 into Missouri while it still was part of the
Louisiana Territory. He was born at the Old Stone House, still
standing on Byrd's Creek, Byrd Township, Cape Girardeau County, Mo.
Covered Wagon Traveler.
As a youth of 19, he came to Texas for the first time in 1873 in a
covered wagon and stayed at Starkville, Lamar County, two months before
returning to Missouri by pony, a trip that required a month.
His next trip to Texas was by rail, and he settled at Blossom, Lamar
County. There in 1877 he joined the Presbyterian Church, became a
ruling elder three weeks later, and since then had represented the
church at various times from the assemblies of the Red River Presbytery
to the General Assembly.
Owned Early Day Store.
He married, in 1879, Mollie Easley, daughter of a farmer in the
community. There he built a small home, and later added a gin and
mill, then several houses and finally a store. The community was
named Byrd Town. Later he moved his family to Detroit where he
engaged in the mercantile business for a time, and then in 1901 moved
(illegible) where he lived until 1913, moving to Midlothian.
He and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary there
in 1929.
In Midlothian he was active in the Presbyterian Church and was chairman
of its board of elders, a position he had held for nearly thirty years.
He is survived by his wife, three sons, D. Harold Byrd, R. J. Byrd,
Irving, and B. E. Byrd, Midlothian; two daughters, Mrs. R. T. Gidley
and Mrs. R. B. McDonald, both of Dallas; seven grandchildren and one
great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Midlothian
Presbyterain Church, with Dr. Jasper Manton, pastor of the Trinity
Presbyterian Church of Dallas, officiating. Years ago while Dr.
Manton's father was pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Paris, Dr.
Manton was ordained there and later became pastor of the same church.
Mr. Byrd attended Dr. Manton's ordination service and many years
ago requested that he conduct his funeral.
Burial will be at 4:30 p.m. in the family burial plot at Blossom.
Pallbearers will be Tom H. Dees, W. H. Price, J. P. Sewell, J. G.
Oliver, R. R. McElroy and Dr. H. G. Williams, all of Midlothian.
(Source: Dallas Morning News, January 8, 1943)
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