One of our trips to Sturgeon, my mother and I made a tour of Moberly to known addresses of family members that she remembered. Lena's family home was one of them. She was telling me that Rob & Lena would cook in the basement to keep the house from getting to hot, and not get the wall paper dirty. They would bring the food upstairs to a formal dinning room. In the dinning room was a big beautiful hutch with lots of hand painted bowls, plates, etc. Some of the famous makers were, P. S. Prussia. Bavaria, Limoge, Haviland. Mom always said she things that was were she got her fetish for pretty dishes and hand painted plates. Well I was only about a year and half old. But somewhere that was passed down to me. I would have loved to be able to see that sight.

Moberly Monitor Index and Evening Democrat newspaper
Moberly, Randolph, MO
Mon Jan 26, 1959 pg 7 col 7
Funeral Services This Afternoon for Mrs. R. A. Fleming-Funeral services were held this afternoon in the Mahan Funeral Home Chapel for Mrs. Lena Fleming, 79, who died at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at her home, 938 West End Place. Services were conducted by the Rev. E. Y. Keiter, Christian Church minister, and burial was in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Fleming died after an extended illness. A native of Sturgeon, she had lived in Moberly since 1901. She was a member of Central Christian Church and of the Ladies Auxiliary to B. of R. T. Mrs. Fleming is survived by her husband, Mr. Robert A. Fleming, two sisters, Mrs. Dora Burton, Moberly, and Mrs. Blanche Capps of Huntsville, and three brothers, Clarence Robinson of Moberly, Arthur Robinson of La Junta, Colorado and Elmer Robinson of Sturgeon.

The Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia, MO Thursday, January 29, 1959 p. 2 col 4:
Mrs Robert Fleming of Moberly Is Dead Sturgeon, Jan 29 - Mrs Robert Fleming, a former resident of this area, died Saturday afternoon at her home in Moberly after a long illness.
Survivors include her husband; two sisters, Mrs Dora Burton of Moberly and Mrs Blanche
Capps of Huntsville; and three brothers, Elmer Robinson of Sturgeon, Clarence Robinson
of Moberly and Arthur Robinson of La Junta, Colo. Services were held Monday afternoon at the Mahan funeral chapel, Moberly, with burial in Sunset Cemetery there. Attending from here were Mr and Mrs Elmer Robinson, Mrs Earl Robinson, Mr and Mrs B F Owings, Mrs Donald Winn and Mrs Robert Fleming.