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1 I I I Building a Show Events co NEWS-LEADER Saturday, March 8, 2008 5B FUNERAL NOTICES ES Obituaries and Funerals: friends and families of the deceased have prepared these obituaries, funeral announcements and memoriams. They are a tribute to their loved ones accomplishments and a service to friends who would like to pay their respects. To submit announcements and discuss fees, please contact your funeral director or advertising department at (417) 836-1251 or 1-800-695-1972 between the hours of 11 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday: Noon until phone the News Leader's 4 p.m.

Sundays: Holiday hours will vary. Email us at News by 4:30 p.m. Visit News for a listing of funeral service providers. To fax information, please send it to (417) 836-1221 Monday through Sunday. Obituaries must be received before 4:30 p.m.

for the fallowing day's publication. Erma T. Wilcox Erma T. Wilcox, 89, went to meet her Savior on Thursday, March 6, 2008. She was born August 5, 1918, to Laud T.

and Rose Belle (Taggard) Metcalf, in Springfield, Mo. Erma married Keith Cowden Wilcox, February 6, 1935. To this union she bore four children, Shirley Joanne, Keith Gary Porter and Thomas Michael. Erma and Keith Sr. lived in Missouri all of their lives except for four years, 1948 to 1952, when they lived in Albuquerque, N.M..

They came back to Missouri and started farming, just outside of Lockwood until 1962, when they moved to Nevada, where Keith Sr. had been called to pastor the Clayton Christian Church west of Nevada, and was later instrumental in starting up the Community Christian Church in Nevada. Erma was very active in the church during this time. She also worked at JCPenney in Nevada for a time. She was involved in many charities and started up the "CluckCluck Clan" in Nevada, where the ladies involved went to the movies, played Chicken Foot dominos and card games, having great fun together.

Erma was widowed in April of 1999 and lived by herself in Nevada until she sold her house and moved to Lee's Summit to be closer to family in 2004. Her life was dedicated to her family and friends of which she had many. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Keith her only sister, Olga (Metcalf) Schmidt; and three grandsons, James Brian Wilcox, David Bradford Buffington and Keith C. Wilcox Ill. Erma is survived by her four children and their spouses, Joanne and Maurice Jewett of Blue Springs, Keith C.

Jr. and Arlene Wilcox of Kidder, Gary P. and Sharon Wilcox of Blue Springs, and Thomas M. and Jo Ann Wilcox of Sarasota, 12 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren and six greatgreat-grandchildren of whom she was very proud of. She will be missed.

The family request that, in lieu of flowers, if you feel so inclined you may make a donation in Mrs. Wilcox's memory to the charity of your choice. Services will be held in the Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada, on Monday, March 10, 2008, at 2:30 p.m. Visitation will start at 1:30 p.m. prior to the service.

Morris Rice Morris Rice, 93, was born July 2, 1914, in Crossville, Illinois, and passed away March 1, 2008, in his home in Springfield, Missouri. He was preceded in death by his loving wife of 70 years, Ruth Rice, and is survived by one sister, Mariorie Sturm; two children, Carolyn Koboldt and Myles (Sharon) Rice; seven grandchildren; 12 greatgrandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. Mr. Rice had proudly served his country in World War II. Visitation will be held today, March 8, 2008, from 10 a.m.

to 1:30 p.m. in Greenlawn Funeral Home South. Funeral services will be held 3 p.m. today in the funeral home. Private interment will take place Monday, March 10, 2008, in Rivermonte Memorial Gardens.

Greenlawn For information regarding obituaries or memorials, please call (417) 836-1183, or go to or send fax to (417) 836-1221. NEWS- LEADER True Ozarks. in Auschwitz' Dutch wife and young son when it was occupied by the Nazis, who sent the family to Auschwitz in 1943. His wife Esther and 3-year-old son, Barney, died at Auschwitz but Greenman was freed from the Buchenwald camp in April 1945 by the U.S. 3rd Army.

He British secret agent dies Pearl Cornioley led resistance cell during World War II. By D'Arcy Doran THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON Pearl Cornioley, who parachuted into France as a secret agent during World War II to help arm and organize the Resistance, has died. She was 93. Cornioley was one of Britain's greatest agents operating behind German lines, according to historian Michael R.D. Foot, who has written extensively about British special operations in France.

Cornioley died at Blois Hospital in the Loire Valley on Feb. 24, Caroline Cottard, the secretary at her retirement home in Chateauvieux, southwest of Paris, said Friday. She parachuted into France in September 1943 to work as a courier for an underground unit. It was believed the Nazis were less likely to suspect a woman, and she posed as a cosmetics saleswoman to deliver coded messages. When the Nazis captured the leader of her unit in May 1944, she took over the cell in the north Indre department of the Loire River valley, about 55 miles southeast of the Normandy beaches.

Using the code name "Pauline," she led a strong team in efforts to cut railway, road and telephone communications and start guerrilla operations. The Nazis put her face on posters offering a 1 million franc reward for her capture but she always evaded them. In June 1944, the month of the D-Day landings, her unit interrupted the Paris-Bordeaux railway line more than 800 times and regularly attacked convoys, she wrote in her 1995 autobiography. "We didn't actually have anything to do directly with the D- Day beach operations, but we were in more or less a rear guard trying to prevent the Germans getting up to them," Cornioley told The Associated Press on her 80th birthday. After the war, she was recommended for Britain's Military Cross medal, but as a woman she was not able to receive it.

Queen Elizabeth II made her a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004 during a visit to Paris. She also received France's Legion d'Honneur. But the award that meant the most to her came when Royal Air Force officers presented her with her parachute wings in 2006 in a ceremony at her Paris retirement home. "I've been moaning about the fact the girls who parachuted into occupied countries were not allowed to wear the wings when we came back from the field," she said. "I thought it was an injustice and really wrong because we went through the same dangers as the men." Loren Perry Gilbert Loren Gilbert departed this life in his home to be with the Lord on March 6, 2008, in Springfield, Missouri.

Loren was born on May 2, 1928, in Springfield. He was preceded in death by his mother and father, Perry and Marie Gilbert; and his in-laws, Clyde and Faye Bratcher. He served in the Navy during the Korean War. He was married to Grace Edgmond on September 12, 1949, in Harrison, Arkansas. They moved to Springfield, Missouri, attended Macedonia Baptist Church.

He is survived by his wife, Grace Gilbert, of the home; and his son Mike Gilbert of Springfield, Missouri. Loren has two grandsons, Sean and Cameron Gilbert of Springfield. He also has one brother, James and his wife, Sharon Gilbert, of Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has one -in-law, Ray and Nadine Edgmond of Bolivar, Missouri; and one sister Sybil CowSpringfield. He also has many nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held Sunday, March 9, 2008, in Greenlawn Funeral Home North from 2 to 4 p.m. Services will be Monday, March 10, 2008, at 10 a.m. in the funeral home. Burial with full military rites will follow in Eastlawn Cemetery. Greenlawn Jerry Lee Gramm Jerry Lee Gramm, 68, Springfield, passed away on Wednesday, March 5, 2008, in Cox South Hospital.

He was born March 30, 1939, in Springfield, Mo. He was a carpenter, but was disabled at time of death. He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Thelma; two sons, Robert and John; one brother, Earl. He is survived by his son Jerald Lee and wife Sherry, daughter Jeannie Perry, Jeralyn Frame and husband Kevin, Mhonda Tanner, all of La. He has 12 grandchildren, sisters Doris Wehrheim Swisher and husband Louis, Marshfield, Carrie Huff, Lake City, brothers Ezra Ronald and wife Deloris, Cliffton and wife Dorothea, James and wife Katherine, all of Springfield, Fred and wife Cora, Benton, Melvin, Yucca Valley, and Donald, Eagle Rock, numerous nieces and nephews, cousins and friends.

A visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 9, 2008, in Greenlawn Funeral Home North. Funeral services are 1 p.m. Monday, March 10 in the funeral home, with burial following in Greenlawn Cemetery. Greenlawn 'Englishman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON Leon Greenman, the only Englishman sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, died Friday, London's Jewish Museum said.

He was 97. Greenman was born in London in 1910 and was living in the Netherlands with his Gertrude Doubledee Gertrude Inga (Skulstad) Doubledee, 81, of Springfield, passed away March 5, 2008, in Cox South Hospital. She was born May 13, 1926, in Battle Creek, to the late Nels and Marie Skulstad. Gertrude was united in marriage to Willus C. Doubledee on September 20, 1945, in Battle Creek, Mich.

She was a member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her loving husband, Willus, on December 21, 2005; her brothers, Robert and Art Skulstad; and sister Alfield Heagney. She is survived by three children and their spouses, Diana and Doug Lachance, Caldeonia, Ontario, Canada, Christine and John Aurora, and Michael and Margaret Doubledee, Springfield, 14 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; and two great-greatgrandchildren. Interment will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, 2008, in Lake Springfield Missouri Veterans Cemetery.

Gertrude will be interred with her husband, Willus, a World War 11 Naval veteran who will receive. his military rites time. In lieu of flowers, donations in Gertrude's memory may be made to the Ozarks Food Harvest at www.ozarksfoodharvest.org. Shocker fan gave longtime support THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WICHITA, Kan. Max Hubbard, a longtime fan of Wichita State University athletics whose devotion to its sports became legendary, has died.

He was 76. Hubbard, past president of Wichita State's alumni association and a 1957 graduate of the university, died Thursday of a respiratory illness. Hubbard and his wife, Lois, showed up at nearly every men's basketball game since 1957 and nearly every women's game. He also attended nearly every Shocker baseball game since a young coach named Gene Stephenson first stepped out of the Wichita State dugout. He also regularly attended women's volleyball games.

And when Wichita State had a football team, up until 1986, the Hubbards went to nearly all of those home games too. They also traveled to away games in those sports. "We planned our lives around Shocker sports," Lois Hubbard said. They went to thousands of games and spent thousands of dollars for tickets and dues. "I knew one thing in our marriage," Lois Hubbard said.

"I knew that if I wanted to be with Max, I had to go to the games. And so I went." He bought so much memorabilia, she said, "with all the Shocker clothes in this house, we could start our own clothing store." In 1995, the Hubbards established the Max E. Lois Hubbard Athletic Scholarship and a fine arts scholarship in Lois Hubbard's name. After graduating with a business administration degree in 1957, Max Hubbard worked as a sales engineer at White Star Machinery and Supply Co. He then co-founded KansasOklahoma Machine Tools Inc.

in 1962, becoming the company's president in 1983 and selling it in 1988. dies at 97 dedicated his life to telling the public about the horrors of the six camps where he was held. He published a memoir, "An Englishman in Auschwitz" and lectured well into old age. He never remarried and leaves no children, the museum said on its Web site. NOW! Is the time to let Midwest Financial beacon Mortgage Company be your to brighter financial future! You can save hundreds of dollars a month when you consolidate your bills with Midwest Financial Mortgage! Purchase your dream home Get a lower interest rate on your current home Consolidate bills mortgage into 1 monthly payment gel CASH back! Refinance your rental properties! Net do it all at the lowest rates available! Fast Friendly Confidential Service 1 Hour Pre -Approval Free Credit Check We'll meet or beat any other mortgage company Make your life 417-886-6611 easier by calling TOLL FREE 877-850-6611 1722 Apply S.

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