Area Obituaries

BONITA BETH COUCH Bonita Beth Couch, 83 years old, of Green City, Missouri, passed away Saturday, February 18, 2023 at Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville, Missouri. She was born on January 12, 1940 on a farm Northeast of Green City to Wayne and Ethel (Terry) Bennett. On March 15, 1959 in Green City, she…

BARBARA LAVERN MASON Barbara Lavern Mason, 85, of Milan, Missouri, passed away on Friday, February, 17, 2023 at her home surrounded by her family. She was born in Detroit, Michigan on July 6, 1937 to Frederick and Doris (Robertson) Voss. She was raised in Pella, Iowa by her paternal grandparents, Leonard and Henrietta Voss. As…

ELMO DEAN BRITTON Elmo Dean Britton, 91, of Purdin, Missouri, passed away Monday, January 30, 2023, at St. Luke’s Hospital. Elmo was born in Browning, Missouri on August 10, 1931, to Wayne Noel and Effie L. (Dickinson) Britton. On August 21, 1950 he married Georgianna (Havens) Britton; she preceded him in death in 2019. He…

BRYAN DAVID RECKRODT Bryan David Reckrodt, 61 years old of Unionville, Missouri passed away Friday, February 3, 2023, in Lemons, Missouri. He was born March 12th, 1961 in Blue Island, IL to George and Donna Reckrodt. He was preceded in death by his mother Donna. Bryan married Brenda Kennedy on September 24th, 1983, in Trenton,…

BETTY DARLENE JAMES Betty Darlene James left this earth to be with her savior on Wednesday, January 25, 2023. Darlene (as she was known by her friends) was born on a farm near Lucerne, Missouri, on November 26, 1934, to John Hartley and Velma (Collins) Vorreiter. She married Hobart L. James on May 25, 1952,…

MADGE REID Madge Reid, 90, of Green City, Missouri, passed away on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, at Sullivan County Memorial Hospital in Milan, Missouri. Madge was born on July 28, 1932, in Green City to Albert and Anna May (Tharp) Beall. She graduated from Green City High School in 1950. On December 9, 1951, she…

JOHN DOUGLAS ELLER On Monday, January 9th, 2023 John Douglas Eller laid his crops by after 54 years, finishing his work on earth and entering into the presence of his Saviour. Doug was born on March 25, 1968 in Medina, OH. He grew up in Burbank, OH and graduated from Norwayne High School in Creston,…

RICHARD WILLIAMS “DICK” SANDERS Richard William “Dick” Sanders, 90 years old, of Kirksville, Missouri, passed away Tuesday, December 27, 2022, at Nashville General Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. Dick was born July 7, 1932 in Eldora, Iowa to Jesse and Rena (Ayers) Sanders. He grew up all around North Missouri, graduating High School in Green City.…

Beverly A. Dieterich 05/23/1942 – 01/12/2023 Beverly A. Dieterich, 80, of Arbela, MO passed away Thursday, January 12, 2023, in her home at Arbela, MO. The daughter of James C. and Annette (Groth) Janssen, she was born in Lincoln, IL on May 23, 1942. She grew up on a farm near Kenney, IL, before moving…

Nancy Lou Domke, age 71 of Memphis, MO went home to be with the Lord on January 6, 2023, at the Schuyler County Care Center in Queen City, MO. Nancy was born on September 21, 1951, in Oshkosh, WI and was raised in the Omro, Wisconsin area and attended the local schools. Nancy loved watching…