St. Clair County Obits

NOVA NORTH KIMSEY

Clinton Daily Democrat
4 June 2001
Nova North Kimzey was born January 2, 1915, near Kirk, Colorado, to Charles Headley Kimzey and Matilda Lydia Ann North Kimzey, and died Saturday, June 2, 2001, at Calhoun.
She was a member of Roscoe Christian Church. She graduated from Roscoe High School in 1931 and received her BS in education from Central Missouri State Teacher's College in Warrensburg. She received her Master's degree in English from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1951 and a second Master's degree in Library Science from Sacred Heart of Immaculate Mary College in California. She taught at Roscoe, Independence and California and in Iowa and California, retiring in 1976.
In 1944 during World War II, she enlisted in the United States Navy on active duty until 1949. During the war she decoded top secret messages in Pensacola, Florida, and taught officer training classes to WAVES in Banbridge, Maryland. She remained in the Naval Reserve following her discharge and attained the rank of Commander in January 1961 and retired from the Navy Reserve in 1975.
She is survived by a niece, Nova Bergschneider and husband, William, Urich; two nephews, Bert Rosebrough and wife, Kay, Windsor, and Raymond Rosebrough and wife, Twila, Everton, and Mary Rosebrough, Lee's Summit, widow of nephew Walter Rosebrough, who died in 1996, and 14 great-nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be Wednesday, June 6, at the Sheldon-Goodrich Chapel in Osceola. Burial with military honors will be in the Roscoe Cemetery.