MRS.
LYDIA RAINWATER
Mrs. Lydia Rainwater, 83 years old, Galena, died at 5:30 o'clock Saturday
morning at Cassville, Mo. Community Hospital, where she had been a patient
one week.
Mrs. Rainwater was born on May 10, 1882 in Green County, Tennessee. She
had lived in the Galena area about 20 years.
Survivors inclued two sons; Vernon Rainwater of Galena, and Ralph Rainwater
of Cassville, three daughters, Mrs. Gleen Summers of Monett and Mrs.Ruby
Adkins and Mrs. James Griffin, both of Neosho; two brothers, Newt Smith
of Butterfield, Mo., and James Smith of Sacramento, Calif.; two sisters,
Mrs. Corna Carney of Springfield, Mo., and Mrs. Cora Smith of Marionville,
Mo.; 16 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at Culver Chapel,
with the Rev. Charles Vanandtz officiating. Burial was in Carney Cemetery.
source:
photocopy of old clipping dated July 1, 1965. Contributed by Robin Biddle
Springfield,
MO - Bonnie Cook Raper, 93, Springfield, Mo., died at 10:45 a.m.
Tuesday, June 10, 1997, in St. John’s Regional health Center after a short
illness.
She
was born Dec. 3, 1903 in Fairview, Mo., east of Union city, Mo., in Stone
county. A homemaker, she was the daughter of James Garfield and Sophia
Ann Lee Cook. In her early youth, she attended the Ozark Wesleyan College
in Marionville.
She
was preceded in death by her husband, James Arthur Raper, Sr., and a son,
Max Donald Raper.
She
is survived by a daughter, Maryan Smith, Springfield,; two sons, James
A. Raper Jr., Springfield, and Roger Wayne Raper, Kirbyville, Mo.; a sister,
Flossie Thompson, Aurora, Mo,; eight grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
She was devoted to her family and will be greatly missed.
Graveside
services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 12, 1997 in Mt. Carmel Cemetery,
south of Clever, with the Rev. James R. Hagan officiating under direction
of Klinger Mortuary, Springfield.
Visitation
will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today in the mortuary.
Published
in the Springfield News Leader, June 1997; Contributed by: Jan Lowry
[Bonnie
Cook Raper is the daughter of Sophia Ann Lee and James Garfield Cook]