All Obituaries

Dorothy passed away Monday, September 25, 2023 at the Mount Ayr Health Care Center.  Her obituary will be added once completed. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, October 6, 2023 at the Redding United Methodist Church.  Family will receive friends from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Thursday at the Prugh-Dunfee Funeral Home in Grant City.  Burial will be at the Redding Cemetery.

          Ruth Emojean Stevenson was born April 13, 1928 in Grant City, Missouri to Fred Glen and Oneta Fern Merkling Stevenson.      Ruth attended Echo Dell and Prairie Star country schools. She attended 3 ½ years at Sheridan Missouri High School before graduating from Houston, Missouri High School in 1946.      Ruth was baptized at the Bethel Methodist Church in 1941. She later became a member of the...

Woodson Dale Maudlin, age 84, passed away September 12, 2023, in St. Joseph, MO. Dale was born on July 8, 1939, in Grant City, Missouri. He was the youngest son of Woodson F. and Ada Fletchall Maudlin. He graduated from Grant City High School in 1956, and married his high school sweetheart, Laveta King, on February 1, 1958. They were married for 64 years. Dale worked at First National Bank in St. Joseph, MO for many years. He worked his way up from the mail room to being the bank’s...

Virginia Lee Robison      Virginia Lee (Auten) (Morrow) Robison, 86 of Grant City, Missouri passed from this life on August 31, 2023 at her home. She was born October 24, 1936 at Parnell, Missouri. Her parents were Pete and Florence (New) Auten.      In 1955, Virginia was united in marriage to Chadrick Dwain Morrow in Worth County, Missouri. They divorced in 1964.  She married Don Robison in 1966 and they later divorced in...

     Wilbur T. Osborne, son of Howard M. Osborne and Grace (Wilson) Osborne was born on December 24, 1916 at 11:30 P.M. in the home of his Grandfather, Jarome M. Osborne., M.D. in Denver, MO. He passed away on August 20. 2023 in Grant City MO at the age of 106.        He grew up in the Allendale, MO area attending school there for twelve years.  He graduated from Grant City High School. He later graduated from Northwest Missouri State...

William “Chief” James Missi was born on April 10th, 1967 to Cletus and Donna Missi. He went to be with the Lord August 9th, 2023 at the age of 56.  Chief was born in Sacramento, California where he spent nine years of his life before moving to Penryn, California. He attended Del Oro High School. Chief spent his early years in DeFuniak Springs and Ponce De Leon, Florida where he had his two boys Adam and Jake.  Chief spent time at Teen Challenge; a Christian Faith...

Kimberly Kay Asher Kimberly Kay Asher, 60, of Barnard, Missouri, entered the gates of heaven on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, surrounded by her family at Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph, Missouri, after a long and brave battle with cancer. Kimberly was born on September 25, 1962, in Mount Ayr, Iowa, to C.M. And Virginia (Smith) Asher. She grew up in Sheridan, Missouri, and graduated from Worth County R-3 in Grant City, Missouri, in 1981. After high school, she entered the workforce and worked...

Margaret E. Rinehart, 102, St. Joseph, Missouri, passed away Sunday, July 16, 2023. She was born July 3, 1921 in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Christopher and Mary, and grew up in southern California. She graduated from Redondo Union High School in 1939 and later graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1943. Margaret was a pianist and affiliated with the international music fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota. Later, she did post-graduate...

Johnnie “Darell” Biddle passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 3rd. Darell was born June 23, 1949, to Rev. John & Bessie Biddle at the farm in Lacona, IA. He graduated from Worth County R-1 High School in Grant City, MO in 1967 and completed his business degree through the National Railroad School in Atlanta, GA. On June 6, 1969, Darell married Brenda Richards of Grant City, MO, with whom he created a family and 54 years of memories. Shortly after marrying Brenda, Darell...

Duane Hammers, 76, Gladstone, MO passed away Saturday, May 6, 2023 at NorthCare Hospice in North Kansas City, MO. He was born on March 1, 1947 in Maryville, MO, the son of Willard Calvin Messner and Frances Jean (Hall) Messner. Duane graduated from Sheridan High School in 1965. He was drafted into the United States Army, 11th Infantry, Blackhorse in Vietnam in 1967 as a combat infantryman, achieving the rank of Sargent. He returned to the United States August 1, 1969. He then, mentored by...