Statler Family Obituaries
Niswonger, Laretha Mae (nee Crites)
Jackson - Funeral service for Laretha Niswonger of Jackson will be held at 2 P. M. today at McCombs Funeral Chapel in Jackson. The Rev. Bill Ellis will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery.
Niswonger, 79, died Tuesday, June 25, 1996, at Vencor Hospital of St. Louis.
She was born December 13, 1916, in Oak Ridge, daughter of Luther and Alice Miller Crites. She and Marvin Ray Niswonger were married July 6, 1935, in Cape Girardeau.
Niswonger worked at the former International Shoe Co. here 12 years and at the former Jackson Hosiery Mill four years and operated a day care center in her home for six years. She was a member of First Baptist Church and taught Sunday School a number of years.
Survivors include her husband, two daughters, Laraine Adams of Jackson, and Darlene James of Wildwood; a sister, Noma Noland of Jackson, and four grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a brother and sister.
Printed in the Thursday, June 27, 1996 edition of the Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, MO.
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