BILLINGS OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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BILLINGS, Zoe Elizabeth STRIEBY 1903 - 1993

Zoe Elizabeth Strieby Billings was born July 4, 1903, in Bakersfield, Oregon; the 
daughter of Ulysses Grant Strieby and Dora (Hunter) Strieby. She passed away 
July 19, 1993, at the South Park Care Center in Kansas City at the age of 90. She 
was born in a lean-to, delivered by her father. He was a doctor and her mother 
was a teacher. Being born on the Fourth of July, she was greeted every year on 
her birthday with a firecracker. She was married to Chester E. Billings and to 
this union a daughter was born. She lived in Clinton a number of years before 
moving to the Kansas City area in 1940. During war time, she worked in an 
ammunition factory, helping in the war effort. She was interested in gardening 
and in canning. She especially loved flowers. She was a very good neighbor and 
was always doing things for her neighbors. Her niece says she was the very best 
aunt, also. She was a member of the Blue Ridge Methodist Church, Kansas City. 
She loved children and for a number of years she did babysitting for the church 
and was called Grandma by everyone. She is survived by one daughter, Patricia 
Billings, Leawood, Kansas; one sister, Imojean Linstrom Clark, Fayetteville, 
Arkansas; one granddaughter, Melanie Runge, and two great-grandsons, Kris Kelly 
and Bryan Kelly. She was preceded in death by her husband, Chester, in 1972, and 
one brother, Buster. Funeral services were 2 p.m. Friday, July 23, at the Consalus 
Chapel in Clinton. Reverend Don Eaton officiated. Musical selections were 
"Amazing Grace" and "In The Garden". Burial was in Englewood Cemetery.

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