Newton County, Missouri Obituaries - Valo Leonard Merrell

Joplin News Herald
Friday, Dec. 20, 1935
MERRELL -- Arrangements are incomplete for the funeral
of Valo Merrell, 30 years old, a resident of Tipton
Ford, who died at 11:50 o'clock last night at the home
of an aunt, Mrs. Robert Donaldson, 2121 Pearl avenue. 
He had been a patient at St. John's hospital until
Wednesday, when he was dismissed.  He was born and
reared at Tipton Ford.  Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Sarah Merrell; a son, Lyndel and two daughters, Louise
and Patty, all at home; two sisters, Mrs. Ray Wilson
of Tipton Ford and Mrs. John Willenborg of Wichita
Falls, Tex., and his mother, Mrs. R. M. Evans of
Woodriver, Ill.

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Joplin News Herald
Saturday, Dec. 21, 1935
MERRELL -- Funeral services for Valo Merrell, 30 years
old, of Tipton Ford, who died Thursday night at the
home of an aunt, Mrs. Robert Donaldson, 2321 Pearl
avenue, will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock Sunday
afternoon at the Spring Valley Community church, two
miles east of Tipton Ford.  The Rev. Thurman Kelley,
pastor of the Forest Park Baptist church, will
officiate.  Burial will be in Spring Valley cemetery. 
Pallbearers will be William Wallace, Tom Erwin, John
Harris, Earl Harris, Raymond Bull and Bert Bull.  The
body will lie in state at the home of the aunt until 2
o'clock Sunday afternoon.

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