Statler Family Obituaries
Statler, Truman B.
Services for Truman B. Statler, 79, of Cape Girardeau, were held at Ford and Sons Funeral Chapel at 10 a.m. June 24, with the Rev. Neil Stein officiating. Burial was in Russell Heights Cemetery at Jackson.
Mr. Statler died at the Cape Girardeau Care Center June 21, 1987. He was born near Millersville July 25, 1907, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Baylis R. Statler. He was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church, having served as chairman of Board of Stewards, church school superintendent and other offices. He was presently a member of Centenary United Methodist Church.
He and the former Eula W. Talley were married Aug. 16, 1925, and she survives. Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Earl W. Johnson of Cape Girardeau; seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Statler farmed until 1937, when he moved to Jackson and was a co-partner in the former Wilson-Statler-Seabaugh furniture and undertaking establishment. He completed construction of the 40-acre Cedar Lake near Millersville, which was opened to the public in 1951. They sold the farming and lake interest in 1965. For six years, he served on Jackson City Council; was a member of Jackson Optimist Club and was a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite mason, and a longtime member of Excelsior Lodge 441.
He served on the Cape Girardeau County Farm Bureau Board of Directors for many years, helped promote establishment of the Farm Bureau Service Co. in Jackson in 1947, and later served as manager and had served on the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation Board of Directors. He was appointed in 1965 to Missouri Department of Revenue by former Governor Warren Hearnes, in the sales tax division in Cape Girardeau County, transferred to the State Department of Agriculture in 1967, and retired in 1972. He then worked part time on the Monroe Farms near Millersville, Lamberts Fabrics Unlimited in Cape Girardeau, and at the Cola-Cola Bottling Co. at Jackson. He had also served many years as a Democrat committeeman in the area in which he lived.
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