Mildred “Millie” Kimzey, a former resident of Trenton and Zephyrhills, FL and most recently residing in Georgia, died on Sunday, May 26, 2019 at Dalton Place in Dalton, GA.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. on Friday, May 31, 2019 at the Tenth Street Baptist Church in Trenton. Burial will be at 2:30 p.m. at the Sunset Memorial Gardens in Des Moines, IA.
A visitation will be held at the church from 10 a.m. until service time on Friday.
Mrs. Kimzey was born in Farson, IA on Oct. 17, 1928, the daughter of Clarence and Dorothy Wilkinson Mefford. She lived in Iowa until her senior year of high school, when her family moved to Missouri. She graduated from Galt High School and then returned to Iowa and worked as a bookkeeper for 30 years, some of them for her husband’s business, Bob’s Tire Service. She and her husband, Bob, purchased a small resort at Lake of the Ozarks in 1975. They operated the resort while working in Camdenton. They moved to Trenton in 1992 to be closer to their parents.
She was a member of Tenth Street Baptist Church. She and her husband wintered in Zephyrhills for 12 years and moved there in early 2009. She moved to an assisted living facility in Georgia in 2016.
She enjoyed walking, working puzzles, computers, reading and spending time with family and friends.
She was married to Robert Kimzey.
She is survived by her daughter, Paula (Stephen) Terrell of Ringgold, GA; a son, Scott (Tessie) Kimzey of Kansas City; a granddaughter, Elizabeth Terrell (Justin) Adams of Ringgold; three great-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, Edna Mefford Upland of the state of California and Katherine Jurgeson of New Virginia, IA; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert; a son, Mark; her parents; her grandparents; three brothers, Wilbur, Harold and Paul Mefford; and two sisters, Doris Fleener and Leone Trask.
Memorial contributions may be made to Tenth Street Baptist Church, American Cancer Society or Alzheimer’s Association and may be left with or mailed to Slater Neal Funeral Home.
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