Charlene Counchman

Nov 2, 2005 | Obituaries

Funeral services for Charlene Dickson Couchman will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005 at the Payne Funeral Home at Galt. Rev. Denny Daum and Doug Fairley will officiate. Burial will be in the Lucerne Cemetery.

Open visitation will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 4, 2005 at the funeral home. A visitation is scheduled from 10 a.m. until service time on Saturday.

Mrs. Couchman, an 86-year-old resident of Newtown, died on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005 at her residence in Newtown.

Mrs. Couchman was born on Sept. 21, 1919, the daughter of Charles and Jenny Blackman. She grew up in rural Newtown and graduate from Lucerne HIgh School in 1938.

She married on Dec. 23, 1939 in Kansas City to Dwight Couchman, who preceded her in death. She worked in Kansas City until returning to Newtown, where she and her husband owned and operated the Newtown Drug Store and Soda Fountain with Joe and Betty Wells. She worked at Banquet Foods for many years and also cooked at the Newtown-Harris School for many years.

She was baptized in 1987 and was a member of the Newtown Christian Church. She was a Rainbow mother for the Newtown Order of Rainbow for girls and was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. She enjoyed garding, quility, tending to her roses and cooking.

Survivors include a son, Charles Wayne Couchman and his wife, Pat, of Warrenton; a sister, Betty Wells and her husband, Joe, of Newtown; two granddaughters, Mary Scharn and her husband, Allen, and Jenny Burt and her husband, Andy, all of Marthasville; two grandsons, Chris Couchman of Foley and Greg Starns of Warrenton; six great-grandchildren Tami Alberernst, Sam Scharn, Dustin and Cheyenne Burt and Camden and Chloe Couchman; three nieces, Joan Boatman, Mary Borchardt and Linda Tucker; a nephew, Jack Wells; and several great-nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by a daughter-in-law, Aneta Steele Couchman; and one sister, Virginia Shearer.