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Submitted: 8/31/13 • Approved: 9/26/16 • Last Updated: 3/12/18 • R4878-G4878-S3
September 21 1888 - October 26, 1956
Daughter of George Washington Headley & Margaret Alice Robinson
Born Fairfield, Wayne Co. IL
Died Carthage, Jasper Co. MO
Married Frank Calvin Medearis November 27, 1907, Tower Hill, Shelby Co. IL
*Obituary
Carthage Press
Carthage, MO
MRS. F.C. MEDEARIS DIES
END COMES SUDDENLY TO
WIFE OF MINISTER
Service Monday at Temple Baptist Church
With Burial Tuesday At Burden, Kas.
Mrs. Mary Alice Medearis, 68, wife of the Rev. Frank C. Medearis, well-known retired Baptist minister, died at 6:10 o'clock last night less than two hours after being admitted as a patient to McCune-Brooks hospital.
In failing health the last eight years as a result of a heart ailment, Mrs. Medearis had not been confined to her bed recently. She prepared an early dinner yesterday afternoon and she and Mr. Medearis had eaten, when she was stricken suddenly about 4:30 o'clock. An Ulmer ambulance was summoned and took Mrs. Medearis to the hospital.
She was born Sept. 21, 1888, in Fairfield, Ill. The Rev. and Mrs. Medearis were married Nov. 24, 1907, in Tower Hill, Ill. They came to southwest Missouri in 1910 and purchased a farm near Sarcoxie. Mr. Medearis engaged in farming and preached for a time and gradually worked into full-time minister's duties.
To Carthage in 1922
The Rev. and Mrs. Medearis came to Carthage in 1922 and purchased a home two miles east of Carthage airport. Although his ministerial duties took him to various other cities, he and Mrs. Medearis retained the home and returned there at various intervals.
He served 16 years a missionary for the Spring River Baptist Association 11 years at one time and five at another. He was pastor of the Miami, Okla., Baptist church several years and twice as pastor of the Burden Kas., church --- eight at one time and seven at another. He was also engaged in evangelistic work.
His last pastorate was Temple Baptist church. He resigned that post in November, 1954, to retire. However, since then he has served as interim pastor and supply pastor of several churches.
Mrs. Medearis was a member of Temple Baptist Church.
Husband and Six Children Survive
Surviving are the husband; four daughters, Mrs. Hazel Alice Pearson and Mrs. Vivian Gimbel, Springfield; Mrs. Ava Ore, Burden, Kas., and Mrs. Helen Seager, Greeley, Colo.; two sons, Kenneth Medearis, Bergenfield, N.J., and Carson Medearis, Tulsa; a brother, George W. Headley, Towanda, Kas., and William Headley, Burden and 16 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren
The body is at the Ulmer funeral home.
Funeral services will be at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon at Temple Baptist church.
The body will be taken Tuesday by Ulmers to Burden, Kas., where funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock that afternoon in the Burden baptist church. Burial will be in Burden cemetery.
Contributed on 8/31/13 by wfields55
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