Kathryn Dunn Wickizer, a 100-year-old Jamesport resident, died on Monday, June 9, 2008 at the Sunnyview Nursing Home in Trenton.
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Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 12, 2008 at the Jamesport Baptist Church. Burial will be in the Clear Creek Cemetery near Lock Springs, under the direction of the McWilliams Funeral Home in Jamesport.
Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church.
Mrs. Wickizer was born on Nov. 3, 1907 at Brayton, IA, the daughter of Fred S. and Lulu Belle Burns Bunnell. She moved as a small child to Missouri with her parents to a farm west of Jamesport. She lived around Jamesport most of her life. She attended the Blake School and other rural schools as the family moved several times in the area.
She was married on Jan. 16, 1926 to Ralph Dunn, who preceded her in death in 1961. The family moved in 1941 to a general store, managing the store and later purchasing it from the Fender family. After the death of her husband, she continued to operate the store for 12 years and sold it in 1975, when she married Raymond Wickizer. They moved to his farm north of Jamesport, then moved to Trenton.
She was a member of the Jamesport Baptist church.
She is survived by a daughter, Vivian McClaskey and her husband, Vernon, of Trenton; a son, Ray Dunn and his wife, Marilyn, of Kearney; five granddaughters, Paula, Pam, Jackie, Joni and Jennifer and their families; one grandson, Alan Eads; 16 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; a step-daughter, Patty Webster and her husband, Jim; seven step-grandchildren; a sister, Elnora Robinson of Phoenix, AZ; one niece, Lois Williams of Scottsdale, AZ; two nephews, Eugene Burrell and his wife, Patsy, of Kansas City and Delbert Burrell and his family of Albert Lea, MN; and several cousins and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Lowell Dean; four brothers, James, Warren, Donald and Howard Bunnell; and a sister, Esteline Burrell.
The family suggests memorials to the Jamesport Baptist Church. They may be left at or mailed to the McWilliams Family Funeral Home, 1329 West. Grand St., Gallatin, MO 64640.