Carroll County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

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Christine S. Link, age 91, formerly of Norborne, Missouri, died April 19, 1999, at the Ray County Memorial Hospital in Richmond, Missouri. She was born January 13, 1908, in Carroll County, Missouri, the daughter of Fred and Mary Leimkuehler Bruemmer. She attended school in Norborne and worked as a telephone operator. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church and its Altar Society, and was a charter member of the Carrollton Recreation Lake and had been an avid bowler. On August 5, 1925, she was married to Francis Anthony Link in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Norborne. He preceded her in death in December of 1982. Survivors include three daughters, Charlotte Albus, Carrollton, Missouri, Earlene McLaughlin, Lexington, Missouri, and Veneta Ann Hazelwood, Phoenix, Arizona; six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. She was the last of twelve children, having been preceded in death by eleven brothers and sisters and her parents. Funeral services will be 10:00 A.M., Friday, April 23, 1999, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Norborne. Burial will be in the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be from 7:00 to 8:00 P.M., Thursday, at the Gibson Funeral Home in Norborne, with the rosary at 8:00 P.M. The family suggests contributions to the Msgr. Summers Scholarship Fund or the Sacred Heart Church or Cemetery in memory of Mrs. Link. They may be left at or mailed to the Gibson Funeral Home in Carrollton.

Evelyn Cristeen Tyhurst Lock, age 76, of Waverly, Missouri, passed away Saturday, March 6, 2004 at her home. Evelyn was born June 4, 1928 in LaPlata, Missouri, the daughter of Charles and Ethel Mary McConnell Tyhurst. She attended LaPlata Grade and High School and Central Business College in Kansas City, Missouri. On March 29, 1951 she married Joseph William Lock at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Carrollton, Missouri. She was a secretary until 1951 in Carrollton, Missouri and Kansas City, Missouri. Evelyn was a homemaker living in Carrollton until 1968 and had lived in Waverly, Missouri from 1968 until 2004. She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and Altar Society of the church in Carrollton and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Evelyn is survived by her husband, Bill, of the home; four children, Carol Ann Lock Ross and husband, Lanny, New Market, Iowa, Steven Neil Lock, Higginsville, Missouri, Catherine Lynn Lock, Waverly, Missouri, and Phyllis Jean Lock Bargfrede and husband, Brent, Dunlap, Illinois; one sister, Lucille Tyhurst McCoy, Boonville, Missouri; three grandchildren, Michelle Ross Hobbick and husband, Eric, New Market, Iowa, Becky Bargfrede and Ben Bargfrede, Dunlap, Illinois, and one great granddaughter, Danielle Hobbick, New Market, Iowa. She was preceded in death by four brothers, Carroll Tyhurst, Norman Tyhurst, L. D. Tyhurst, and James Tyhurst; and one sister, Rowena Tyhurst Jewell. Funeral services were at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, March 9, 2004 at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Carrollton, Missouri with Reverend Ken Criqui officiating. Burial was in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Carrollton, Missouri. Visitation was Monday, March 8, 2004 from 7-8:30 p.m., at Gibson Funeral Home, with a Rosary at 8:30. The family suggests contributions be made to St. Mary's Cemetery, Carrollton, Missouri in memory of Mrs. Lock. They may be left at or mailed to Gibson Funeral Home, 201 S. Main, Carrollton MO 64633

A Carrollton, Mo. Resident, 85 year old, Raymond N. Ludwig, died Wednesday, April 21, 1999, at the Carroll County Memorial Hospital. Raymond was born July 25, 1913 near Wakenda, Mo, the son of B. T. (Tucker) and Nancy Neet Ludwig. He attended grade school in Wakenda and graduated from Carrollton High School, where he and his brother, Lawrence, excelled in football. The family moved to the Norborne area where he farmed in the Sugartree area until he retired and moved to Carrollton in 1974. He spent three years in the United States Army during World War II and received the Bronze Star. Raymond was married to Dorothea M. Heins on November 30, 1942 at the home of the bride in Carrollton; she preceded him in death on September 24, 1984. Raymond was a member of the First Christian Church, Carrollton Mo. And a forty year member of the Carrollton Pence-Lovell-England Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and he had served on the Moss Creek Township Board. Survivors include a niece, Shirley Schienman, Farmington Connecticut and her family Karen Suponski, Susan Stebbins, Wendy Miller, and Dr. John Schienman, all of Connecticut; and several cousins, Alma Hass and Frances Hass, Raymond, South Dakota and Donna Davis, Aberdeen, South Dakota, and James Wicks, Venita Oklahoma. Graveside services were conducted by Reverend Joe Barone at 10:00 A.M., Monday, April 26, 1999, at the Oak Hill Cemtery, in Carrollton.
The family suggests contributions to the First Christian Church or the Oak Hill Cemetery in memory of Mr. Ludwig. They may be left at or mailed to the Gibson Funeral Home in Carrollton.