Obituaries
Funeral services for Roscoe Dewane Parker, 84, West Plains, Missouri, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, October 20, 2023, at First Christian Church, under the direction of Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.
Mr. Parker passed away on Wednesday October 11, 2023 at his home.
He was born April 23,...
Funeral services for Peggy Jean Kissinger, 90, Ozark, Missouri, formerly of West Plains, Missouri, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, October 20, at the Langston Street Chapel of Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.
Peggy Kissinger baked the world's best rum cakes. Of course, as a Baptist, she would...
Mr. Marion Francis Jones Jr., a resident of Springfield, and formerly of Willow Springs, passed away early Wednesday morning, October 11, 2023, at his home. Marion was born July 1, 1945, to Marion Francis Jones Sr. and Verda Lillie (Kinnie) Jones in Willow Springs and was 78 years old.
Marion...
Wayne Eugene Noble, 86, of Mountain View, Missouri, went to be with the Lord on October 7, 2023. He was born on April 27, 1937, in Mountain View. Wayne married Beverly Sue Lewis on December 23, 1967, at the Noble family farm in Mountain View. To this union, four children were born Donna, Gaylon,...
Gary Mack Ralph was born Saturday, February 18, 1950, in Blytheville, Arkansas to Martha Juanita (Biggs) and Mackie Ralph. He passed away peacefully in his home on Thursday, October 5th, 2023, surrounded by his wife and three daughters.
Gary attended Holland Elementary and South Pemiscot High...
Oscar Wayne Greenwood, known to his friends as “Wayne,” was born to Oscar and Reva Downing Greenwood on January 21, 1938 in Willow Springs, Missouri. After a short battle with leukemia, he passed away at the Good Shepherd
Hospice House in Manhattan, Kansas, on Saturday, October 7, 2023.
At...
On October 2, 2023, longtime West Plains resident and civic leader, Newton Clyde Brill, Jr., 87, died at his home with wife Carolyn by his side. Mr. Brill was born on March 10, 1936 in Mountain Grove, MO in the home of his grandmother Olive Young. The attending physician was Mr. Brill's great-...
Effie Maxine (Green) Holden was born on October 20, 1929, in Shannon County, Missouri, to Herbert Arthur and Ethel (Paschal) Green. She departed this life on September 26, 2023, in Willow Springs, Missouri, at the age of 93.
She married Cecil W. Holden on December 23, 1946. To this union, four...
Elaine Edwards, 86, a resident of Willow Springs, MO passed away at Willow Care Nursing Home at 1:07 a.m. on Monday, September 25, 2023. She was born May 26, 1937, at home in Hartsfield, Georgia to John and Lula (Joiner) Richardson.
Elaine attended Moultrie High School in Moultrie, Georgia. She...
Joy Beth Tranbarger McClure was born March 13, 1957, in Flint, Michigan, to Lilburn Ray and Joyce Mayree (Decker) Tranbarger. She departed this life on September 25, 2023, at her home in Birch Tree, Missouri.
Joy is preceded in death by her parents, Lilburn and Joyce.
She leaves to mourn her...