Butler county MO., obituary Elmer Auvenshine ==================================================================== Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: ==================================================================== Elmer Auvenshine FISK -- Elmer Tressie Auvenshine, 93, of Poplar Bluff, died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2002, at Beverly Healthcare and Rehabilitation in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Auvenshine was born Jan. 28, 1909, in Formosa, Ark., and lived in Butler County for over 50 years. She was a member of the Church of Christ. She formerly attended Broseley Church of Christ and later attended Highland Drive Church of Christ until her health failed. She was a homemaker and helped her husband farm in the Broseley and Fisk area. On Dec. 26, 1927, she married Marvin Olen Auvenshine in Clinton, Ark. He preceded her in death March 12, 1970. Survivors include one son, Dr. C. Dwight Auvenshine and wife Alice of Lexington, Ky.; one daughter, Muriel Woolard and husband Robert of Wappapello; four grandchildren, Michael Woolard and Deborah Young, both of Broseley, Stephen Auvenshine of Paris, Ky., and Jennifer Salsman of Lexington; and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Walter and Lou Tishie Lowe. Visitation will begin at noon Saturday at White-Sanders Funeral Home in Fisk. The funeral service will follow at 2 p.m. Saturday in the funeral home chapel. Burial will be at Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Poplar Bluff.