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Riley-Essex
Miss Willie Riley, daugher of Mrs. Minnie Sherron and Walter (Bud) Essex, elder son of Mrs. Vercie Essex were married at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 9, by Reverend Pope, pastor of the Christian church at Lamar.They were unattended. The bride was attired in a chartruese dress with rust accessories and the groom wore a suit of bankers gray. Mrs. Essex graduated from Liberal High School in 1930 and has been employed as bookkeeper at the local Farmers Exchange for seven years. She will continue her work there. "Bud" is manager of the Exchange and has been employed there for the past fifteen years. They have rented the Mrs. Mollie Bumgarner property on Yale Street and will move there soon.
Kansas City Star
Wednesday, November 27, 1991
Willie R. Essex
Lamar - Willie R. Essex, 79, Liberal, Missouri, died November 26, 1991, at a hospital in Lamar. She was born in Monett, Missouri, and lived in Liberal most of her life. Mrs. Essex was a cook for the Liberal school system before she retired. She was a member of the Liberal Christian Church and its Christian Women's Fellowship. Her husband, Walter "Bud" Essex, died in 1986. Survivors include three daughters, Nancy Sorenson and Jerri Workman of Liberal and Linda Shomin, Kansas City, Kansas; four grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the church; burial in the Liberal Cemetary. Friends may call from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the Lohmeyer-Konantz Chapel, Lamar. The family suggests contributions to the scholarship fund of the Liberal R-2 School District.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1912 - 1991 (79 years)