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THERSA LORAINE MANGES
Mrs. Therza Loraine Manges, wife of Harrison Manges, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ben McCall, 114 South Idaho, this city, at 3:50 this morning, January 27th, after a year's illness with a complication of diseases. She was 73 years, 9 months and 8 days old at the time of her death.
    Mrs. McCall brought her mother here to her home three weeks ago, and it seemed for a time as though she was improving, but gradually grew worse and the end came early this morning.
    Funeral services will be held at the McCall home at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. W. R. Reeves, pastor of the Baptist church. Burial will be in the Miami Cemetary, in charge of Jones-Ruhland.
    Surviving Mrs. Manges are six daughters and three sons, who are: Mrs. Frankie Kirkendall and Mrs Chester Proctor of Detroit, Mrs. Lee Kelley of Prairie Grove, Ark., Mrs. Sam Puffer of Hillsdale, Mich., Mrs Roy Nichols of Hendricks, Okla., Mrs. McCall of this city, H.F. Butler of Freewater, Oreg., E.A. Bulter of Charelston, S.C., and C.O. Butler of Reed Springs, Mo. Also surviving are thirty four grandchildren, five great grandchildren, and one borther, Abe Stevens of Mt. Vernon, Mo.

Note: Thersa was first married to James W. Butler and spent most of her life in the Cape Fair area. She used to get really mad when her name was misspelled - and ironically it was misspelled in her obit. I have a copy of an affadivt she signed attesting to the CORRECT spelling of her name: THERSA.
Source: Columbus Daily Advocate, 27 Jan 1937
 Contributed by Shannon Butler Ventuleth GGranddaughter

VERNON MAY
    Vernon May passad away January 20, 1977 as a result of a heart attack. He was born Oct 5, 18887 in Stone County. He is survived by two brothers; Homer May, Buffalo Kansas; Olond May, sate of Arkansas; one sister, Eula Gill, Haper, Kansas. His wife preceded him in death several years ago. Services were held in Peters Funeral Chapel Saturday, January 22, at 2 p.m. The Rev. Marvin Cooke officiated. Organist was Mrs. Margaret Carver. Pall bearers were: Martin Classuen, Joe Davis, Clarence Osform, Elmo Harsbarger, Oscar Hudson and R. F. Hopkins. Burial was in Resthaven Cemetery, Sperry, Okla.
      Vernon was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Sam May of Galena, Mo.
source: old newspaper clipping, no date or identity. Contributed by Robin Biddle 

HERMAN MICHEL
 
Mr. Herman Michel age 81 passed away at the Aurora hospital on Wednesday June 9 at 8:55 p.m. where he had been a patient for a week. He had made his home on route one Marionville for a number of years. Mr. Michel is survived by one daughter Anna Michel of the home, three sons, Lewis Michel of Aurora, Mo. Emmett Michel and Roy Michel of Marionville, Mo. eight grandchildren, three great-grand children; one brother ,Charlie Michel of Hartshorn, Mo.
 
Funeral services were held at the Bradford-Surridge Chapel at 2:30 p.m. Friday June 11. Interment under direction of Bradford-Surridge was in the
Odd Fellows Cemetery. Rev. Fred McPhail officiated and was assisted by Rev. H. V. Wells. The Wells quartet sang.
 
Pallbearers were: Harry Toyntou, Louis Baum, Fred Peiter, Lester Davis, Ward Maples and S. L. Rapp.
 
Marionville Free Press Thursday June 17, 1954
Contributed by Pat Moyer <[email protected]>

ANDREW JACKSON MILLER
Reeds Spring-Funeral services for Andrew Jackson Miller, 71, of Ozark, who died at 11 a.m. Wednesday, were at 2:30 p.m. Monday in Reeds Spring elementary school. The Rev. John Daley officiated and burial was in the
Nickerson Cemetery, south of Reeds Spring, under direction of Stumpff.
A member of the Pentecostal Church, Mr. Miller is survived by his wife, Julia; six sons, Jack, Sacramento, Calif., E.R. of Reeds Spring, O.D., address unknown, Marvin, Reeds Spring, William Henry, US Army in Vietnam , and David, of the home.
Also surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Betty Grider, of Highlandville, Mrs. Pauline Grider, Ozark, Mrs. Mary Bilyeu, Berryville, Ark., Mrs Frances Moore, Canoga Park, Calif., and Miss Catherine Miller, of Sacramento, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs E.J. Garrigus, El Dorado Springs, Mrs George Horn, Reeds Spring, and Mrs Marshall Horn, Live Oak, Calif., and 18 grandchildren.
Newspaper unknown.Thursday January 30, 1969

BRENDA SUE MILLER
Brenda Sue Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Andrew Miller of Reeds Spring,  was born in Skaggs Memorial Hospital at Branson, February 7, 1955 and passed away in the same hospital October 28, 1955 at the age of
8 months and 21 days.
Besides her parents she is survived by six sisters, Pauline, Betty Jean, Reneie, Mary, Frances, and Kathaleen; also six brothers, E.R., O.D., Marion, Henry, Jack and Dave; and her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs
Ora Garrigus.
Graveside services were held Saturday afternoon in the Nickerson cemetery with Rev. Willie Eaton of Reeds Spring officiating. Burial was under the direction of Everett J. Cheatham of Galena.
Stone County News-Oracle Friday, November 4, 1955

WILLIAM HENRY MILLER
     William Henry Miller, 38, Lubbock, Texas, services were at 2 p.m. Thursday, December 9 in Nickerson Cemetery, Reeds Spring, with the Rev. Albert Holt officiating. Burial was under direction of Stumpff Funeral Home of Reeds Spring. Mr. Miller died at 4 a.m. Saturday, December 4, 1982 in Lubbock of apparent natural causes, a funeral home spokesman said.
     A native of Stone County, he was a Vietnam War veteran. Surivors include his mother, Julia Miller, Live Oaks Calif. five brothers, E.R., Reeds Spring, O.D., Gridley, Calif., Marvin, Reeds Spring and David and Jack, both of Yakima, Wash.; five sisters Mrs. Betty Grider, Highlandville, Mrs. Pauline Grider Ozark, Mrs. Mary Moore, Marysville, Calif., Mrs. Frances Moore, Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. Catherine Wallen, Stockton Lake.
source:Found in the library.

MRS BERTHA E MITCHELL
     HURLEY--Mrs. Bertha E Mitchell, 84, of Hurley, died Monday afternoon in St. John's Hospital, Springfield, where she had been a patient one week.
     A native of Stone County, Mrs. Mitchell is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Margaret C Davis, Springfild, and Mrs. Lela L. Curbow, Hurley; two sons, Lester Al, Route 1, Billings, and Leon, Springfield; and a sister, Mrs. Edith Estes, Billings.
     Arrangements are under direction of Cantrell of Clever.
 clipping dated July 3, 1969 no source.  Contributed by Robin Biddle 

T. C. MITCHELL
     Last rites for T. C. Mitchell, 74, who died Wednesday at this home in Crane were held Saturday afternoon in the Manlove Chapel in Crane, with interment in the Oak Grove cemertery, under direction of Manlove. Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Helen Willard of Marionville; Mrs. Jo Rea of Crane; and Mrs. Mabel Boelman of Kansas City; one siter, Mrs. Lulu Ergenbright of Crane; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
source: old clipping obtain at Galena Library. Stone County Republican Nov 20, 1958. Contributed by Robin Biddle.

FLOYD WILLIAM MOBLEY

      Floyd William Mobley, 99 of Baker City, died June 12, 2003, in his home at Meadowbrook Place, Baker City, Oregon.
      His graveside funeral will be Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Mount Hope Cemetary, with Pastor Jon Privett of the First Church of the Nazarene in Baker City officiating. A potluck picnic at Geiser Pollman Park will follow the ceremonies.
     Floyd was born April 21, 1904, in Booneville, Ark, and lived there until the age of 3 when his parents, Pearlie and Lemuel Henry Mobley, brought the family by train to Hood River. They homesteaded in Benge, WA, and later near Huntington, OR.
     Floyd had a hard time getting an education because when his parents needed help on the homestead he had to stay home from school. He did manage to get a sixth-grade education, and he had a photographic memory and easily remembered almost anything he read. The Bible was one of his favorite books to read, and he could quote entire chapters.
     Floyd went to Colusa, CA in 1929, where he met Dorothy Totman Wilson, whom he married April 15, 1931. They had six children together. They moved back to Huntington in 1934.
     Floyd was a logger and fell trees all over Oregon, and some in Washington. The amily lived in many places in both Eastern and Western Oregon, as well as in Central Washington in the towns of Buena, Toppenish, White Swan and Wapato.
     After his wife, Dorothy Mobley, died in 1970, Floyd moved to Baker City, OR, where he lived out the rest of his life except for two years in Yakima, WA. There was nothing Floyd loved as much as being out in the hils and woods. He loved to hike, and he climbed Mount Hood with some of his children when he was 67. Floyd knew hundreds of poems and and loved to quote them to people. He also loved to sing. He sang church songs or funny little songs, "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" was one of his favorites.
     Floyd is survived by his brother, Edwin Mobley of Union Gap, WA, three sons and daughters-in-law, David and Esther Mobley, Ralph and Dixie Mobley, and Earl and Judy Mobley. Three daughters, Ruth Brown, Alice and Jim Wikstrom, and Beth Rairdan. 21 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.
     Floyd was preceded in death by his parents, his three sisters, Climey Rodellia Mobley, Margaret Josephine Mobley, and Bessey Leor Mobley. Two brothers, Jessee James Mobley and Joseph Phillip Mobley, and one grandson, Jason Jonathan Mobley.
     Contributions in Floyd's memory may be made to the charity of one's choice in care of Gray's West and Company Pioneer Chapel, P.O.Box 726, Baker City, OR 97814.
Contributed by Jerald O. Mobley <mailto:[email protected]>
NOTE:This is my Uncle's Obit. He is/was my father's eldest brother, the son of Lemuel Henry (born in Radical, MO) and Pearly Rose Adelia (Stallions) Mobley born near Cape Fair, MO). Lemuel Henry Mobley was the son of John Henry Mobley, and Mary Elisa (Philibert, Horn) Mobley.