Barry County Missouri Obituary
Francis Ernest (Bud) McClure 
Source: Scrapbook bought at the estate sale of Vivian Roller by Ted W. Roller


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BUD M'CLURE DEAD As the hour of midnight was approaching Saturday night,
Sept. 18, bringing in a new day, so was a  new  life  given  to  Francis
Ernest (Bud) McClure at the home of his father, Thos. J. McClure, 4  1/2
miles from this city, on the Cassville and Washburn road, surrounded  by
all his relatives, who watched the closing  of  the  earthly  career  of
their loved one, who had been sick for a long time  with  paralysis  and
other complications, aged 44 years, 5 months and 13 days.

It seems but just a few days since his mother passed to the great beyond
there to mingle with loved ones in the spirit land and await the (?)  of
her loved ones left behind. Bud has gone to the  sweet  embrace  of  his
loved mother, who will greet her son affectionately and bib him  welcome
to the Holy City.

Bud was born and reared in this county and has lived all his life in the
vicinity and was  known  to  everybody  in  the  neighborhood  where  he
resided. He was respected by all of his acquaintances.

Funeral services were held at the McClure  home,  Sunday  evening  at  2
p.m., where a large number of relatives  assembled  to  pay  their  last
respects to a good citizen and  to  comfort  the  aged  father  and  the
brothers and sisters.

Interment was made in the family lot in  the  Washburn  Prarie  cemetery
after the funeral services at the home.