Obituaries – Wednesday, January 14th 2025

Funeral services for Billie Lee Shults of Salem, age 87, will be held at 11:00 this morning in the Wilson Mortuary Salem Chapel. Burial will be in the Dry Fork Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Corinth Baptist Church. 

Funeral services for Oren Glenwood LaRue of Belleview, age 95, will be held at 2:00 this afternoon at the Locust Grove United Baptist Church in Oates. Visitation will be held from 11:00 this morning until service time at the church. Burial will be in the Sam Crocker Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the Sam Crocker Cemetery. All arrangements are under the direction of the Wilson Mortuary of Viburnum.

Masonic and funeral services for Robert Clark Baker of Cuba, age 72, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 at the Britton-Bennett Funeral Home in Steelville with Full Military Honors following the services. Visitation will be in the morning from 11:00 until service time. Interment will be in the Sanders-Huzzah Cemetery in Huzzah, MO. Memorials may be given to the Sanders-Huzzah Cemetery.

Funeral service for Ben McWilliams, Jr. of Rolla, age 87, will be Friday at the Immanuel Lutheran Church of Rolla, Visitation will be from 11:00 until service time. Burial with Full Military Honors will be at 3:00 Friday in the Fort Leonard Wood Veterans Cemetery, Waynesville. Memorials are suggested to Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Arrangements are under the direction of the Rolla Chapel of James & Gahr Mortuary.

Funeral services for Walden Skonieczny of Salem, age 78, will be held at 2:00 Saturday afternoon in the Wilson Mortuary Salem Chapel.  Visitation will be held from 1:00 until service time Saturday in the chapel. Burial will be in the Cedar Grove Cemetery. 

A Celebration of Life for Roy Dean Parker of Salem, age 77, will be held from 12:30 until 3:30 Sunday afternoon in the Wilson Mortuary Salem Chapel. Interment will be held at a later date in the Boss Cemetery.