St. Clair County Obits

MARY KATHERINE SHOEMAKER

Clinton Daily Democrat
13 October 2001
Mary Katherine Shoemaker was born December 3, 1920, in Kansas City, to Harry and Lillian Louise Rome Osgood, and died Saturday, October 27, 2001, at Golden Valley Hospital in Clinton at the age of 80 years, 10 months and 24 days. Her early years were spent in the Kansas City area. She later moved to the Osceola area and had been making her home in Clinton the past 14 years. She was preceded in death by two sons, Billy and Jerry Dayton; one sister, Virginia Williams, and her husband, Benjamin Shoemaker. She is survived by three sons, Sam and Jim Dayton of Kansas City, and Earl Shoemaker of Clinton; three daughters, Rita Lusher of Kansas City, Kansas, Judy Dayton of Topeka, Kansas, and Mary Roark of Excelsior Springs; 21 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren; three brothers, Albert VanCamp of Liberty, Frank VanCamp of Arizona, Harry VanCamp of Kansas City; one sister, Dorothy Forgerty of Kansas City, Kansas; nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Funeral services were Tuesday, October 30, 10 a.m., at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Clinton, with Rev. Douglas Punke officiating. Burial was in the Osceola Cemetery.