ELMER MOORE, PIONEER RESIDENT, DIED TUESDAY
Elmer Ellsworth Moore, 84
years old, died at 2 o'clock Tuesday morning at the home of
his son, T. C. Moore. Mr.
Moore had suffered a paralytic stroke about ten days ago.
He was born in Elkhart,
Ill., Oct. 4, 1868, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Orton L. Moore.
The family later moved to
Kansas, and on Oct. 9, 1890, he married Miss Sarah Robert
Shaw. They lived in Kansas
and Oklahoma, where he engaged in farming. They moved to
Chaffee in 1913, where Mr.
Moore was employed by the Frisco Railroad. He was employed
in the Store Room when he
retired in 1930.
Mr. Moore, and the late
Mrs. Moore who died Dec. 20, 1948, were the parents of seven children,
five of whom survive. They
are Mrs. R. A. Vickery of Detroit, Mich., Harold E. Moore of
Delhart, Tex., T. C. Moore
of Chaffee, Mrs. Gussie Lasley of San Antonio, Tex. and Lawrence
Moore of Sikeston. There
are also 10 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and one
great-great-grandchild,
as well as his sister, Mrs. Effie Bower of Laern, Okla.
Mr. Moore was a charter
member of the Chaffee Christian Church where services will
be held at 2:30 o'clock
Thursday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. F. Dawson. Burial
will be made in Memorial
Park cemetery near Cape Girardeau, with Bisplinghoff service.
G. B. FETTER, 69, DIED SUNDAY
G. B. Fetter, 69 years old,
died suddenly at his home here at 120 Black Avenue about
7 o'clock Sunday morning.
Death was said to hve been due to a heart attack. Although
he had not been in the best
of health the past month, his condition was not considered
serious. He had gotten up
and had breakfast that morning and was preparing to go up town
when stricken.
Mr. Fetter was born at Vandalia
Ill., May 23, 1884, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Fetter.
He moved with his parents
to Stoddard County when he was a child and grew up near Leora
and Puxico. He was first
married to Mrs. Martha Jane McGuire of Puxico. Following her death,
and in 1936 he was married
to Mrs. Elizabeth Unger of Bloomfield, who survives. They came
to Chaffee five years ago
where he was associated with the Western Auto Associate Store.
Previous to coming to Chaffee,
Mr. Fetter engaged in farming in Stoddard County.
Besides his wife, he is
survived by three children, Mrs. Naomi Boone, of Flint, Mich.; Norman
Fetter of Charleston, and
Freeman Fetter of Flint, Mich.; five step-children, Mrs. Mildred
Von Lefferr and Mrs. Irene
Spencer of Chaffee, Mrs. Evelyn Jordan of Charleston, Mrs. Louise
Priddy of Chicago, Ill.,
Mrs. Mary Hopkins of Dexter; a brother, Claude Fetter of Fredericktown,
14 grandchildren, and two
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at the West Union Baptist Church at Fagen, near
Puxico, of which Mr. Fetter
was a member. Burial was made in the West Union Cemetery with
Bisplinghoff service.