Statler Family Obituaries
Smith, Euna Blanche (nee Statler)
Euna Blanche Statler Smith was born on April 26, 1932, in Detroit, Mich., the first child of Lawrence Herbert Statler and Blanche Euna Ellis Statler. She departed this life on Sept. 8, 2006, in O'Fallon, Mo.
When Euna was a very small child, the Statler family moved back to Missouri, to a farm outside of Jackson, where Euna attended a one-room country school. Three additional children were added to the Statler family, Herbert, Martha and Mary.
Euna attended high school in Jackson for three and a half years, and then transferred to Cape Girardeau, where she graduated from high school in 1949. Euna attended Southeast Missouri State College, where she met her future husband, Robert Smith. After graduation and teaching for several years, Robert and Euna were married on June 6, 1959, at Centenary Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau.
Robert and Euna were blessed with three sons, Mark, Tim and Brad. Euna's focus was on being a wife, mother and homemaker, but found time to be active in her children's school activities, participated in the United Methodist Woman and Church Circles and Federated Women's Club.
The Smiths lived in Carbondale, Ill., Fairfield, Ill., Cape Girardeau, Bridgeton, Mo., St. Charles, Mo., Carterville, Ill., and O'Fallon.
Euna and Robert's lives were enriched with Tim's marriage to Jan, and Brad's marriage to Allison. They were further blessed with five wonderful grandchildren.
Euna became an avid genealogist in the early 1990s and was successful in tracing her family to a Revolutionary War patriot, earning Euna membership in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1997.
Euna was a gentle and gracious lady, whose life was full of love and devotion to her family and friends. She was a blessing to many, and she will be deeply missed by her husband, Robert; her sons, Mark of Glendora, Calif., Tim and his wife, Jan, of Chesterfield, Mo., and Brad and his wife, Allison, of St. Charles, Mo.; her grandchildren, Alex and Andrew Smith of Chesterfield, and Quin, Mason and Ella Smith of St. Charles; her siblings, Herbert (Jo) Statler of Ewell, England, Martha Patterson (Roland) Doty of Lee's Summit, Mo., and Mary (Gary) Meissner of Warrenton, Mo., and brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, and many friends.
Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Chapel.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Jeff Long officiating. Entombment will be in Memorial Park Mausoleum.
Printed in the Monday, September 11, 2006 edition of the Southeast Missourian, Cape
Girardeau, MO.
Obituary submitted by Mary Alice Blaylock.
©2006 by David Statler of StatlerWeb
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