Virginia 'Grammer' Landreth-Kritz, 92, Ozark, MO, formerly of Neosho, died on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at Cox South in Springfield, following a one week illness. Virginia was born Aug. 21, 1915 in Newtonia, MO. She graduated from Midway High School, where she played girls basketball and was instrumental in the organization of the original 'Gidgets' softball team and in organizing the Neosho Girls Softball League. Following graduation from Midway, she attended and graduated from cosmetology school in Springfield, MO. She worked at the former Sale Memorial Hospital clerical department, the deli at Foodtown Grocery in Joplin and then at Sunbeam in Neosho, retiring in 1986 and moving to the Springfield area in 1992 from Neosho. She was a member of Northside Baptist Church. She is survived by a daughter, Anita Goodwin Peck-Smith and husband, Sam, Springfield, MO; granddaughter, Jymi Peck-Neidig and husband, Gerry, Ozark, MO and three great grandsons, Jakob, Josh and Jonah Neidig. In addition to her parents, Albert and Rhoda (Boston) Landreth, she is preceded in death by four brothers, Virgil, Joe, Price and Pete Landreth and five sisters, Irene Farley, Ruth McFall, Mary Patterson, Donna McConnell and Eugenia Lowry. Services will be Friday, April 18, 2008 at 2:00 pm at the Clark Funeral Home Chapel in Granby, with burial in the Newtonia IOOF Cemetery. Family will serve as pallbearers. Friends may call after 9 am Friday at the Clark Funeral Home, Granby and the family will receive friends Friday from 1 pm until service time at the funeral home. Contributions in memory of Virginia may be made to the Ronald McDonald House of Springfield, MO, c/o Clark Funeral Home, PO Box 26, Granby, MO 64844.
Virginia 'Grammer' Landreth-Kritz, 92, Ozark, MO, formerly of Neosho, died on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at Cox South in Springfield, following a one week illness. Virginia was born Aug. 21, 1915 in Newtonia, MO. She graduated from Midway High School, where she played girls basketball and was instrumental in the organization of the original 'Gidgets' softball team and in organizing the Neosho Girls Softball League. Following graduation from Midway, she attended and graduated from cosmetology school in Springfield, MO. She worked at the former Sale Memorial Hospital clerical department, the deli at Foodtown Grocery in Joplin and then at Sunbeam in Neosho, retiring in 1986 and moving to the Springfield area in 1992 from Neosho. She was a member of Northside Baptist Church. She is survived by a daughter, Anita Goodwin Peck-Smith and husband, Sam, Springfield, MO; granddaughter, Jymi Peck-Neidig and husband, Gerry, Ozark, MO and three great grandsons, Jakob, Josh and Jonah Neidig. In addition to her parents, Albert and Rhoda (Boston) Landreth, she is preceded in death by four brothers, Virgil, Joe, Price and Pete Landreth and five sisters, Irene Farley, Ruth McFall, Mary Patterson, Donna McConnell and Eugenia Lowry. Services will be Friday, April 18, 2008 at 2:00 pm at the Clark Funeral Home Chapel in Granby, with burial in the Newtonia IOOF Cemetery. Family will serve as pallbearers. Friends may call after 9 am Friday at the Clark Funeral Home, Granby and the family will receive friends Friday from 1 pm until service time at the funeral home. Contributions in memory of Virginia may be made to the Ronald McDonald House of Springfield, MO, c/o Clark Funeral Home, PO Box 26, Granby, MO 64844.
Family Members
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Berta Irene Landreth Farley
1902–1966
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Virgil Clark Landreth
1904–1997
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Hattie Ruth Landreth McFall
1907–1979
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Donna Lucille Landreth York McConnell
1908–1995
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Joseph William Landreth
1910–1990
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Mary Vivian Landreth Patterson
1911–2004
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Price Albert Landreth
1914–1995
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Eugenia Caroline Landreth Lowry
1920–1998
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