Mrs. Lenore C. Muir, 88, of Caruthersville, died Feb. 7, 1993 at Pemiscot Nursing Home. Born Oct. 15, 1904 at Hayti, she was the daughter of Mary Betsy Faris and Joseph Green Crider, M.D.
She was a 1922 graduate of Caruthersville High School and had a Bachelor of Science Degree from Southeast Missouri State University and a Master of Arts Degree from the Peabody College of Nashvlle. She was a school teacher for the Caruthersville School District and surrounding area for 42 years before her retirement.
She was a former president of Southeast Missouri Teachers Association, organizer and first regent of Gayoso chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution and the first president of the Pemiscot Memoral Hospital Auxiliary. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, where she served as a deacon and youth advisor.
She is survived by a sister, Virginia Crider Capps of Evansville, Ind.
She was preceded in death by a son, Joseph Gordon Muir.
Services were Feb. 10 at 11 a.m. at H.S. Smith Funeral Home chapel in Caruthersville, the Rev. Paul Currie officiating, with burial in Little Prairie Cemetery.
Decmorat Argus - Caruthersville, Mo. - 1993
She was a 1922 graduate of Caruthersville High School and had a Bachelor of Science Degree from Southeast Missouri State University and a Master of Arts Degree from the Peabody College of Nashvlle. She was a school teacher for the Caruthersville School District and surrounding area for 42 years before her retirement.
She was a former president of Southeast Missouri Teachers Association, organizer and first regent of Gayoso chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution and the first president of the Pemiscot Memoral Hospital Auxiliary. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, where she served as a deacon and youth advisor.
She is survived by a sister, Virginia Crider Capps of Evansville, Ind.
She was preceded in death by a son, Joseph Gordon Muir.
Services were Feb. 10 at 11 a.m. at H.S. Smith Funeral Home chapel in Caruthersville, the Rev. Paul Currie officiating, with burial in Little Prairie Cemetery.
Decmorat Argus - Caruthersville, Mo. - 1993
Mrs. Lenore C. Muir, 88, of Caruthersville, died Feb. 7, 1993 at Pemiscot Nursing Home. Born Oct. 15, 1904 at Hayti, she was the daughter of Mary Betsy Faris and Joseph Green Crider, M.D.
She was a 1922 graduate of Caruthersville High School and had a Bachelor of Science Degree from Southeast Missouri State University and a Master of Arts Degree from the Peabody College of Nashvlle. She was a school teacher for the Caruthersville School District and surrounding area for 42 years before her retirement.
She was a former president of Southeast Missouri Teachers Association, organizer and first regent of Gayoso chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution and the first president of the Pemiscot Memoral Hospital Auxiliary. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, where she served as a deacon and youth advisor.
She is survived by a sister, Virginia Crider Capps of Evansville, Ind.
She was preceded in death by a son, Joseph Gordon Muir.
Services were Feb. 10 at 11 a.m. at H.S. Smith Funeral Home chapel in Caruthersville, the Rev. Paul Currie officiating, with burial in Little Prairie Cemetery.
Decmorat Argus - Caruthersville, Mo. - 1993
She was a 1922 graduate of Caruthersville High School and had a Bachelor of Science Degree from Southeast Missouri State University and a Master of Arts Degree from the Peabody College of Nashvlle. She was a school teacher for the Caruthersville School District and surrounding area for 42 years before her retirement.
She was a former president of Southeast Missouri Teachers Association, organizer and first regent of Gayoso chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution and the first president of the Pemiscot Memoral Hospital Auxiliary. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, where she served as a deacon and youth advisor.
She is survived by a sister, Virginia Crider Capps of Evansville, Ind.
She was preceded in death by a son, Joseph Gordon Muir.
Services were Feb. 10 at 11 a.m. at H.S. Smith Funeral Home chapel in Caruthersville, the Rev. Paul Currie officiating, with burial in Little Prairie Cemetery.
Decmorat Argus - Caruthersville, Mo. - 1993
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