Republic High Missouri Alumni Obituaries

Tosha Lynn Mudd 54 of Rural Bowling Green Missouri went to her eternal home on Thursday January 29 2026 after a valiant fight with cancer. Tosha was the daughter of Richard D. and Vicki L. Mehler Cox. She grew up in rural Curryville MO and attended Bowling Green Schools graduating from Bowling Green...

Wilburn Thomas Tom Byrd Jr 76 passed away with his family near on January 21 2026 in Springfield MO. He was born February 22 1949 in St Joseph MO to W. Thomas Byrd Sr. and E Louise Isabel Byrd. Tom attended Edison Grade School and Central High School. He was Trackman of the year in 1967. He graduate...

Maxine Ruth McFarlane LemlerFeuers was born on May 30 1929 and raised on the family farm near Sweet Springs Missouri by her parents the late Anton John Tony Lemler Sr. and Lorena Cartee Lemler. She passed away on December 262025 at The Neighborhoods in Columbia Missouri. From an early age Maxine ble...

Retha Deann Wilson, 63, Rogersville, passed away Saturday, November 1, 2025 at her home.She was born June 11, 1962 in Mountain Grove, Missouri, the daughter of Dean and Bonnie (Robb) Wilson.Retha was a 1980 graduate of Republic High School. She was a U.S. Army veteran where she served as a mechanic...

Don L. McKinzie, age 74, of Mt. Vernon, Missouri, passed away at 10:45 a.m. on Monday, November 3, 2025, at home. He was born March 8, 1951, in Lamar, Missouri, the son of R.E. and Betty Lou (Lankford) McKinzie.Don was a 1969 graduate of Mt. Vernon High School. He served in the United States Army du...

Jeanie Sutton, age 75, of Mt. Vernon, Missouri, passed away at 12:26 p.m. on Saturday, November 29, 2025, at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. She was born on December 27, 1949, in Monett, Missouri, the daughter of Walter and Elva Mae (Piper) Pendleton.Jeanie was a 1968 graduate of Mt. Vernon High...

George Harper was born in Goodland, Kansas to Paul Burkley Harper, Sr, and Catherine Veronica Thummel on February 14, 1947. Siblings, Paul Burkley Harper, Jr., Beverly Grant, Patricia Bowen. The Harper family moved when George was a child to Colorado Springs where he grew up and graduated high schoo...

Edward “Eddy” Clark Harrison, 64, of Milan, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, January 7, 2026.Eddy was born on August 4, 1960, in Milan, Missouri, to William and Mildred (McClaskey) Harrison. He graduated from Milan High School in 1978. Following graduation, he joined the Navy which took him to Wauke...

Kristi Sue Rudy, age 74, of Marionville, Missouri, passed away at 4:54 a.m. on Thursday, July 17, 2025, at her home. She was born July 7, 1951, in Des Moines, Iowa, the daughter of Keith and Geneva (Scott) Bradford.Kristi was a 1969 graduate of Republic High School, in Republic, Missouri, and attend...

Brenda Sue Elliott, age 72, of Marionville, Missouri, passed away at 2:43 a.m. on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, at her daughter’s home. She was born May 2, 1952, in Gunnison, Colorado, the daughter of Burl and Hazel (Goin) Applegate.Brenda was a 1971 graduate of Republic High School in Republic, Missou...

Johnnie Edgar Springer, age 77, of Aurora, Missouri, passed away at 7:16 p.m. on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at Cox South Hospital, in Springfield, Missouri. He was born on August 4, 1948, in Hurley, Missouri, the son of Edgar Allen and Ole Muriel (Morris) Springer.Johnnie was a 1966 graduate of Mar...

Gene Rowland, son of the late John Rowland and Dorothy Carter Rowland, was born on October 9, 1955, in Dexter, Missouri and went home to Jesus on January 15, 2026, at his residence in Dexter at the age of 70.Gene grew up as a hardworking farm boy, playing in the fields and Dexter Creek with his 6 s...

Janette F. Harms 62 of Ionia passed away Sunday November 30 2025 at her home. She was born on October 29 1963 in Windsor Missouri a daughter of Larry and Margie Schenewark Means. Janette was raised on a farm south of Lincoln and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1982. She got her first job while...

Ronald Dean Gibbins 79 of Texarkana Texas went to be with the Lord on Friday January 30 2026 at St. Michaels Hospital in Texarkana. He was born on April 5 1946 in Storm Lake Iowa to Walter Douglas and Julia Margaret Gibbins. Ronald grew up on a farm near Nemaha Iowa where he worked alongside his fat...

Carolyn Sue Wise, age 88, of Aurora, Missouri, passed away at 8:40 a.m. on Saturday, November 8, 2025, at Oak Pointe of Monett, Missouri. She was born February 21, 1937, in Republic, Missouri, the daughter of Russell and Bernice (Davis) Bassore.Sue was a 1955 graduate of Mt. Vernon High School in Mt...

Kenneth Ray Coose, 64, of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, went home to be with Jesus on October 30, 2025, in his home surrounded by family.He was born on March 23, 1961, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Hubert and Luanna Coose. The family moved to Lockwood, Missouri, in 1972, where Kenny graduated from Lockwood Hi...