Wanda Lynn Eckert, a 66-year-old resident of Laredo, died at 12:15 a.m. on Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at her residence.
Funeral services are scheduled for 11 a.m. on Friday, May 3, 2019, at Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home in Trenton. Burial will follow in Wallace Cemetery east of Chula.
A visitation is scheduled from 6 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, 2019 at the funeral home.
Mrs. Eckert was born on July 31, 1952 on the family farm southwest of Mercer, the daughter of Hearl D. and Stella M. Clark Stark. She was of the Assembly of God and Pentecostal faith. Mrs. Eckert’s family moved to Idaho, where she attended first through fourth grades. In the spring of 1962 she moved back to Missouri, living east of Laredo and then moved to Mercer in the fall. After her sophomore year she dropped out of school for two years. The family moved to Harris in the summer of 1970 and she went back to school, graduating from Newtown-Harris High School with the class of 1972.
After graduating the family moved to a farm at Jamesport and in 1973 she began her schooling at the Chillicothe Beauty Academy. She was a hairstylist for 27 years and had her own beauty salon for a few years.
She was married on July 12, 1980 to Charles Ray Eckert in the home of her parents. Mrs. Eckert worked at Eastview Manor Care Center for 12 years as a CNA, hairstylist and laundry aide. She took any job very serious and she loved taking care of the elderly. She always said that that was their home and that they should be treated like she would want to be cared for, with dignity and respect.
Surviving relatives include her husband of the home; a brother, Jack Stark of Warr Acres, OK; sisters, Naomi McCullough and her husband, Randy of Lexington and Priscilla Ethridge and her husband, Leonard of Bolivar,; and a goddaughter, Jennifer Busch of Brookfield.
She was preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Martha Pearl, Deloris June, Mary Virginia Bunch and Sharon Ann Cattlett; and brothers Robert Lee, Joseph David and Harold Wayne Stark.
Memorial donations are suggested to the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries for Share-a-Thon or Bible-Thon and may be left with or mailed to the funeral home.
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