Obituaries
Funeral services for Charles Eugene Pond, 89, of Ava, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Gainesville with Dale Roberts officiating. Mr. Pond died Oct. 3 at Glenwood Healthcare in Seymour.
He was born March 27, 1932, in Poynor, Missouri, the son of Edley...
Funeral services for Michael Patrick Estes, 73, of Cincinnati, Ohio, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Gainesville. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Mr. Estes died Oct. 1 at his home.
He was born March 4, 1948, in...
Funeral services for Frank Earl Jenkins, 72, of Theodosia, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, at the Gainesville Livestock Auction on Highway 160 west of Gainesville with Jeramie Henson officiating. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Kissee-Schofield-Eakins Funeral Home in...
Barbara J. Cowart, 86, of Gainesville, died Sept. 5, 2021, at the Gainesville Health Care Center. A private family service will be held at a later date.
She was born April 10, 1935, in Squires, the daughter of Etcyl and Mildred Turner. She graduated from Ava High School and worked for the...
Funeral services for Mary Ellen Price, 74, of Mansfield, were held Sept. 11, 2021, in Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Ava with minister Greg Mosely officiating. Mrs. Price died Sept. 8 at her home.
She was born March 17, 1947, in Thornfield, the daughter of Leonard and Bonnie Lawson. On June 11,...
Leon Kent Eslinger, 64, of Gainesville, MO passed away on September 09, 2021, at the Baxter Regional Medical Center. He was born on March 30, 1957, in Springfield, Missouri, son of Don and Juanita (Perry) Eslinger.
Leon is survived by his wife Debbie (Fry) Eslinger of Gainesville; son Levi and...
Mary Alice Stephens, 59, of West Plains, formerly of Ozark County, died Sept. 10, 2021, in West Plains with her family by her side. The family will honor Mary Alice with a memorial motorcycle ride beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, at Twin Bridges and ending with a celebration of her life at...
A memorial service for M. Karen Gilliam Jones, 76, of Springfield, formerly of Gainesville, will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home in West Plains. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. Mrs. Jones died March 17, 2020, at the...
Funeral services for Katie Riley, 91, of Drury, were held Sept. 14, 2021, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Ava with ministers David Shipley and T. J. Stout officiating. Mrs. Riley died Sept. 10 at Mercy Hospital in Springfield with her children by her side.
She was born Nov. 22, 1929, in Trail,...
Funeral services for Richard Glenn Nash, 59, of Caulfield, were held Sept. 14, 2021, in the Assembly of God Church in Winona with Brother Richard Dement and Brother Tim Rolen officiating. Mr. Nash died Sept. 9 in West Plains after battling cancer for many years. His family was by his side.
He was...