Name on cemetery stone: MAGGIE E. COLYER
La Plata Home Press, La Plata, Missouri
May 5, 1949.
MAGGIE COLYER
---Mrs. Maggie E. Colyer, aged eighty-five years, seven months and twenty-five days, died at the home of her son, Bryce Colyer of near Kirksville, April 25. She had been in failing health several weeks.
---Funeral services were held at the Assembly of God church in Elmer, conducted by Rev. F. R. Davison. Pall bearers and flower girls were grandsons and granddaughters of Mrs. Colyer. Interment was made in Indian Hill cemetery near Gifford, Missouri.
---Mrs. Colyer was the daughter of William and Martha Ann Lawrence, born in Sullivan County, Missouri on August 31, 1863.
---She was married to John Colyer on December 25, 1887 and to this union ten children were born, two of whom preceded her in death, Bennie and Marie; also two brothers and one sister. Her husband died more that twenty-five years ago. Mrs. Colyer lived in Elmer a number of years and was a faithful member of the Assembly of God Church. She moved to Kirksville sixteen years ago where she resided until two weeks ago.
---Surviving are her daughters, Nancy Geatting of Oklahoma, City, Oklahoma, Mary Johnson of near Green City, Missouri; six sons, Bryce and Ernest of Kirksville, Grantison of Arthur, Nebraska, and Kale of Orlando, Florida, James of Macon, Missouri and Sherman of Elmer and one son, John Bausell, by a former marriage who lives at Mystic, Missouri; sixteen grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Joe Harris, of Springfield, Missouri.
Name on cemetery stone: MAGGIE E. COLYER
La Plata Home Press, La Plata, Missouri
May 5, 1949.
MAGGIE COLYER
---Mrs. Maggie E. Colyer, aged eighty-five years, seven months and twenty-five days, died at the home of her son, Bryce Colyer of near Kirksville, April 25. She had been in failing health several weeks.
---Funeral services were held at the Assembly of God church in Elmer, conducted by Rev. F. R. Davison. Pall bearers and flower girls were grandsons and granddaughters of Mrs. Colyer. Interment was made in Indian Hill cemetery near Gifford, Missouri.
---Mrs. Colyer was the daughter of William and Martha Ann Lawrence, born in Sullivan County, Missouri on August 31, 1863.
---She was married to John Colyer on December 25, 1887 and to this union ten children were born, two of whom preceded her in death, Bennie and Marie; also two brothers and one sister. Her husband died more that twenty-five years ago. Mrs. Colyer lived in Elmer a number of years and was a faithful member of the Assembly of God Church. She moved to Kirksville sixteen years ago where she resided until two weeks ago.
---Surviving are her daughters, Nancy Geatting of Oklahoma, City, Oklahoma, Mary Johnson of near Green City, Missouri; six sons, Bryce and Ernest of Kirksville, Grantison of Arthur, Nebraska, and Kale of Orlando, Florida, James of Macon, Missouri and Sherman of Elmer and one son, John Bausell, by a former marriage who lives at Mystic, Missouri; sixteen grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Joe Harris, of Springfield, Missouri.
Family Members
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John Thurman Bausell
1886–1964
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Bryce Patrick Colyer
1888–1964
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William Grantison Colyer
1890–1969
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Nancy Ann Colyer Goetting
1892–1974
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Mary Belle Colyer Johnson
1894–1988
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Private Kale May Colyer
1895–1956
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James Martin Colyer
1897–1973
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Margaret Marie "Maggie" Colyer Fisher
1899–1948
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Benjamin Marshall "Bennie" Colyer
1901–1918
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Earnest Babe Colyer
1903–1959
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Sherman Texas Colyer
1907–1985
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