ZELLA L. SAWYER
January 8, 1926 - April 30, 2018
Zella Lee (Simrell) Sawyer, age 92, of El Dorado Springs, MO. passed away April 30, 2018 at Community Springs Healthcare. Zella was born January 8, 1926, in Birdsong, near Stockton, MO., the daughter of Franklin and Ruby Flo (Morlan) Simrell.
Zella grew up in the Amity Community, graduated the 8th grade from Amity School and from Stockton High School in 1943. she worked at Hammons Walnut Factory as a bookkeeper. She and her fellow employees from 1951 are in one of the pictures on display at the Hammons Black Walnut Emporium on the Square in Stockton.
She was saved and baptized at a young age and joined Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church. She later moved her membership to Caplinger Mills Baptist Church, where she was a faithful member and attended the rest of her life until her health prevented her attendance. she has a strong faith in God and He was her strength in times of sickness and hardships throughout her life.
She married Billy Dean Sawyer on August 26, 1948. They soon moved to the farm where they lived until his death in 1992. They raised four children there and she was a farmer's wife and partner. She milked cows, always had chickens, grew a large vegetable garden and canned for the winter. She worded in the fields; disking, planting, mowing, raking, combining fescue, hauling hay, or picking up rocks. When she moved to town, in 1993, it was the first time she didn't have chickens to feed or eggs to gather.
She loved helping those less fortunate and always had a kind word and a heart full of love for everyone. She was a very giving person with a gentle soul. She was dearly loved by her family and will be sorely missed.
Preceding her in death were her husband, Billy; her parents; her daughter, Sharon Lee Keeton; and two sisters, Veda Simrell and Neva Worthington Rust.
Survivors include three children; Kallie Dean Hopkins of Ozark, MO.; Jerry Dale Sawyer and Mary Donna Wisner and her husband, Robert of El Dorado Springs; three grandchildren; four great grand children; six great great grand children; and nieces and nephews.
She lived the last ten years of her life at Community Springs and the family wants to thank all of her caregivers for the love and support they have provided.
Funeral services for Zella Sawyer will be held on Sunday, May 6, 2018, at 2:00 at Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home with Rev. James Coleman officiating. The family will receive friends from 1:00 p.m. until service time. Burial will be at Shady Grove Cemetery near Fair Play, under the direction of Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home.
Pallbearers are: Jerry Evans, Jr., Richard Rose, James Marsten, Amor Worthington, Charley Sawyer, and Dwight Sawyer. Honorary Pallbearers are: Junior Sawyer and Glenn Keeton.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association and left at the funeral home.
January 8, 1926 - April 30, 2018
Zella Lee (Simrell) Sawyer, age 92, of El Dorado Springs, MO. passed away April 30, 2018 at Community Springs Healthcare. Zella was born January 8, 1926, in Birdsong, near Stockton, MO., the daughter of Franklin and Ruby Flo (Morlan) Simrell.
Zella grew up in the Amity Community, graduated the 8th grade from Amity School and from Stockton High School in 1943. she worked at Hammons Walnut Factory as a bookkeeper. She and her fellow employees from 1951 are in one of the pictures on display at the Hammons Black Walnut Emporium on the Square in Stockton.
She was saved and baptized at a young age and joined Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church. She later moved her membership to Caplinger Mills Baptist Church, where she was a faithful member and attended the rest of her life until her health prevented her attendance. she has a strong faith in God and He was her strength in times of sickness and hardships throughout her life.
She married Billy Dean Sawyer on August 26, 1948. They soon moved to the farm where they lived until his death in 1992. They raised four children there and she was a farmer's wife and partner. She milked cows, always had chickens, grew a large vegetable garden and canned for the winter. She worded in the fields; disking, planting, mowing, raking, combining fescue, hauling hay, or picking up rocks. When she moved to town, in 1993, it was the first time she didn't have chickens to feed or eggs to gather.
She loved helping those less fortunate and always had a kind word and a heart full of love for everyone. She was a very giving person with a gentle soul. She was dearly loved by her family and will be sorely missed.
Preceding her in death were her husband, Billy; her parents; her daughter, Sharon Lee Keeton; and two sisters, Veda Simrell and Neva Worthington Rust.
Survivors include three children; Kallie Dean Hopkins of Ozark, MO.; Jerry Dale Sawyer and Mary Donna Wisner and her husband, Robert of El Dorado Springs; three grandchildren; four great grand children; six great great grand children; and nieces and nephews.
She lived the last ten years of her life at Community Springs and the family wants to thank all of her caregivers for the love and support they have provided.
Funeral services for Zella Sawyer will be held on Sunday, May 6, 2018, at 2:00 at Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home with Rev. James Coleman officiating. The family will receive friends from 1:00 p.m. until service time. Burial will be at Shady Grove Cemetery near Fair Play, under the direction of Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home.
Pallbearers are: Jerry Evans, Jr., Richard Rose, James Marsten, Amor Worthington, Charley Sawyer, and Dwight Sawyer. Honorary Pallbearers are: Junior Sawyer and Glenn Keeton.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association and left at the funeral home.
ZELLA L. SAWYER
January 8, 1926 - April 30, 2018
Zella Lee (Simrell) Sawyer, age 92, of El Dorado Springs, MO. passed away April 30, 2018 at Community Springs Healthcare. Zella was born January 8, 1926, in Birdsong, near Stockton, MO., the daughter of Franklin and Ruby Flo (Morlan) Simrell.
Zella grew up in the Amity Community, graduated the 8th grade from Amity School and from Stockton High School in 1943. she worked at Hammons Walnut Factory as a bookkeeper. She and her fellow employees from 1951 are in one of the pictures on display at the Hammons Black Walnut Emporium on the Square in Stockton.
She was saved and baptized at a young age and joined Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church. She later moved her membership to Caplinger Mills Baptist Church, where she was a faithful member and attended the rest of her life until her health prevented her attendance. she has a strong faith in God and He was her strength in times of sickness and hardships throughout her life.
She married Billy Dean Sawyer on August 26, 1948. They soon moved to the farm where they lived until his death in 1992. They raised four children there and she was a farmer's wife and partner. She milked cows, always had chickens, grew a large vegetable garden and canned for the winter. She worded in the fields; disking, planting, mowing, raking, combining fescue, hauling hay, or picking up rocks. When she moved to town, in 1993, it was the first time she didn't have chickens to feed or eggs to gather.
She loved helping those less fortunate and always had a kind word and a heart full of love for everyone. She was a very giving person with a gentle soul. She was dearly loved by her family and will be sorely missed.
Preceding her in death were her husband, Billy; her parents; her daughter, Sharon Lee Keeton; and two sisters, Veda Simrell and Neva Worthington Rust.
Survivors include three children; Kallie Dean Hopkins of Ozark, MO.; Jerry Dale Sawyer and Mary Donna Wisner and her husband, Robert of El Dorado Springs; three grandchildren; four great grand children; six great great grand children; and nieces and nephews.
She lived the last ten years of her life at Community Springs and the family wants to thank all of her caregivers for the love and support they have provided.
Funeral services for Zella Sawyer will be held on Sunday, May 6, 2018, at 2:00 at Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home with Rev. James Coleman officiating. The family will receive friends from 1:00 p.m. until service time. Burial will be at Shady Grove Cemetery near Fair Play, under the direction of Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home.
Pallbearers are: Jerry Evans, Jr., Richard Rose, James Marsten, Amor Worthington, Charley Sawyer, and Dwight Sawyer. Honorary Pallbearers are: Junior Sawyer and Glenn Keeton.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association and left at the funeral home.
January 8, 1926 - April 30, 2018
Zella Lee (Simrell) Sawyer, age 92, of El Dorado Springs, MO. passed away April 30, 2018 at Community Springs Healthcare. Zella was born January 8, 1926, in Birdsong, near Stockton, MO., the daughter of Franklin and Ruby Flo (Morlan) Simrell.
Zella grew up in the Amity Community, graduated the 8th grade from Amity School and from Stockton High School in 1943. she worked at Hammons Walnut Factory as a bookkeeper. She and her fellow employees from 1951 are in one of the pictures on display at the Hammons Black Walnut Emporium on the Square in Stockton.
She was saved and baptized at a young age and joined Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church. She later moved her membership to Caplinger Mills Baptist Church, where she was a faithful member and attended the rest of her life until her health prevented her attendance. she has a strong faith in God and He was her strength in times of sickness and hardships throughout her life.
She married Billy Dean Sawyer on August 26, 1948. They soon moved to the farm where they lived until his death in 1992. They raised four children there and she was a farmer's wife and partner. She milked cows, always had chickens, grew a large vegetable garden and canned for the winter. She worded in the fields; disking, planting, mowing, raking, combining fescue, hauling hay, or picking up rocks. When she moved to town, in 1993, it was the first time she didn't have chickens to feed or eggs to gather.
She loved helping those less fortunate and always had a kind word and a heart full of love for everyone. She was a very giving person with a gentle soul. She was dearly loved by her family and will be sorely missed.
Preceding her in death were her husband, Billy; her parents; her daughter, Sharon Lee Keeton; and two sisters, Veda Simrell and Neva Worthington Rust.
Survivors include three children; Kallie Dean Hopkins of Ozark, MO.; Jerry Dale Sawyer and Mary Donna Wisner and her husband, Robert of El Dorado Springs; three grandchildren; four great grand children; six great great grand children; and nieces and nephews.
She lived the last ten years of her life at Community Springs and the family wants to thank all of her caregivers for the love and support they have provided.
Funeral services for Zella Sawyer will be held on Sunday, May 6, 2018, at 2:00 at Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home with Rev. James Coleman officiating. The family will receive friends from 1:00 p.m. until service time. Burial will be at Shady Grove Cemetery near Fair Play, under the direction of Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home.
Pallbearers are: Jerry Evans, Jr., Richard Rose, James Marsten, Amor Worthington, Charley Sawyer, and Dwight Sawyer. Honorary Pallbearers are: Junior Sawyer and Glenn Keeton.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association and left at the funeral home.
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