Bobby Max Stinson, a 71-year-old resident of Princeton, died on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at the Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton.
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Bobby Max Stinson, a 71-year-old resident of Princeton, died on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at the Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, May 30, 2003 at the Princeton First Christian Church. Rev. Gary Watkins and Rev. Roger Cain will officiate. Burial will be in the Princeton Cemetery.
An open visitation and viewing is under way at the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Chapel, where a visitation is scheduled for tonight (Thursday, May 29, 2003) from 7 to 8 o?clock.
Mr. Stinson was born on Jan. 25, 1932 in Spickard, the son of Hubert and Virginia Rhoades Stinson. He was raised in the Half Rock Community in Mercer County by his grandparents, Arthur and Gayla Rhoades. He was a 1949 graduate of Princeton High School, where he was active in the FFA choir and received the FFA State Farmer and American Farmer awards. He was a veteran of the Korean Conflict, serving in the Army.
Mr. Stinson was engaged in farming until 1964, when he was employed by the Peoples Bank of Mercer, working there for 22 years. He was then employed for two years by the Farmers Home Administration and later by the Mercer County Soil and Water Conservation District. He was associated with the North Missouri Mutual Insurance Company as a director and agent.
Mr. Stinson was a member of the Princeton First Christian Church, where he served as choir director and also sang for hundreds of funerals. He was a former board member and past president of the Mercer County Public Water Supply District, a member of the Ragan-Hickman American Legion Post #477 of Mercer and a board member of the Mercer County Senior Citizens Center in Princeton.
Mr. Stinson was married to Mary Lois Horn on Nov. 15, 1953. She preceded him in death on Feb. 9, 1982. Mr. Stinson was then married on Oct. 14, 1983 to Gladys Beryl Pilgrim Shepard, a native of Griquet, Newfoundland, who survives him of the home, north of Trenton.
In addition to his wife, he is also survived by a son, Fred Stinson and his wife, Terri Lee, of Yuma, CO; a daughter Collene Quintana and her husband, Tom, of Spickard; his mother, Virginia Kilburn of Trenton; a half-brother, Orley Kilburn and his wife, Charlsie, of Story City, IA; two step-daughters, Terry Kean and her husband, Cris, of Ontario, Canada, and Judy Crawford and her husband, Terry, of El Dorado Springs; two grandchildren, Nicole Stinson and Manuel Jose Quintana; four step-grandchildren, Steven and Carrie Crawford and April and Brandon Kean; and two step-great-grandchildren, Parker and Erin Crawford.
In addition to his first wife, he was preceded in death by his father and an infant daughter, Mary Elizabeth Stinson.
The family requests memorial contributions be made to the Princeton First Christian Church. They may be mailed to the church at 901 E. Main St., Princeton, MO 64673.