Freda Mae Koch

Dec 27, 2020

Graveside services for 93 year old Freda Mae Koch of Ash Grove, Missouri will be held at a later date at White Chapel Memorial Gardens In Springfield. Arrangements are under the direction of Klingner Cope Family Funeral Home at White Chapel.

Judy P. Rowell

Dec 26, 2020

Judy P. Rowell, 64, passed on Saturday, December 26, 2020. She was a beloved wife, daughter, sister, aunt, stepmother and grandmother. Judy is survived by her husband of 16 years Richard, one brother and sister-in-law Eugene and Jo Ryan and many in the first responder community where she served as a Springfield/Greene Co. 911 dispatcher for 26 years. Everyone...

Clyde Rufus Black

Dec 26, 2020

Clyde Rufus Black of Springfield, Mo. departed this life on Dec. 26, 2020 in Cox Hospital at 86 years of age.

Clyde was born to George S. Black and Gladys Inez McDaniel Black on Sept. 7, 1934 in Cloud Chief, Ok.  Clyde started to work with Western Electric Co. in Riverside, Ca. in 1956, taking time out...

Angi Gianopulos

Dec 25, 2020

Jo Angelina "Angi" Gianopulos, 66, passed from this earth into Heaven's gates on Friday, December 25, 2020.  She was born on Friday, February 5, 1954 in Columbus, Indiana to Bob Robbins and Barbara Jo King.

Angi married the love of her life, Randy Gianopulos, on May 11, 1974.  They resided in Republic, Missouri the majority of their...

Harold Lee Hotelling

Dec 24, 2020

Harold Lee Hotelling, Republic, formerly from the Fair Grove and Springfield area, was born February 25, 1942. He went to be with the Lord on December 24, 2020. He was preceded in death by his parents., Harold Austin, Stella (Campbell) and Margareet (Smith) Hotelling, his grandparents and several Aunts and Uncles.

He is survived by his former...

Ellen Gertrude West

Dec 24, 2020

Ellen Gertrude West, 90, of Republic, MO departed this life on Thursday, December 24, 2020 in Alexandria, MN. She was born on Saturday, September 27, 1930 in Kankakee, IL to Samuel Kinney and Hazel Vaughan.

The eldest of six siblings, Ellen grew up in Fairfield, IL. She moved to Springfield, MO and was soon united in marriage...

Thomas Benjamin Groundwater

Dec 24, 2020

Thomas Benjamin Groundwater of Springfield, Missouri, departed this life on Thursday, December 24, 2020 at Cox South Hospital with his loving wife and daughter by his side at the age of 79 years. Tom was born on October 20, 1941 in Pittsburg, Kansas to Thomas S. and Maxine (Towner) Groundwater. Tom graduated from Parkview High School in 1959. He...

Ray Morris

Dec 15, 2020

Ray Morris was born in Sweetwater, Texas in 1928. At the age of 10 he received Christ as his savior. He proudly served in the United States Army from 1949-1952 at Fort Hood, Texas. After the army he relocated to Springfield, Missouri to attend Baptist Bible College and attended High Street Baptist Church where he met his future bride....

Jake Dale Johnston

Dec 15, 2020

Jake Dale Johnston, 13, of Nixa, MO passed away on Tuesday, December 15, 2020. He was born on Thursday, August 16, 2007 in Springfield, MO to Amy Dawn Blair and Jeremiah Dale Johnston.

Jake was a people pleaser and always had a smile for you. He was undisappointable, selfless and forever the jokester. Jake had an incredible...

Tony E. Howell

Dec 14, 2020

Anthony Edward Howell, 84, of Springfield, MO passed away on Monday, December 14, 2020. He was born on Monday, August 24, 1936 in Plattville, WI to Florence Loretta Kopp and Joseph Peter Howell.

Tony and Delores Yearous were united in marriage on February 19, 1955 and to this union seven children were born. He retired from Yale-Gammon...