Veteran: WW II (Coast Guard)
h/o Janet Poston Whitehead
Birth: in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Attended Carthage public schools graduating Class 1940, then to Unversity of Missouri, roommate of Judge Herbert Castell upon return to college following Coast Guard service during WW II in South Pacific (retired U S Navy Reserves in 1968)
City Directory 1941, 1967, 1959 & 1953
One of Missouri's more distinguished senators, serving in state legislature for forty-two years, from 1948 till death in 1990, first in the house, was youngest speaker ever in 1954, then, 1962 in senate, re-elected minority floor leader in 1984 a seat earlier held by Arkley Frieze, A L McCawley and Allen McReynolds all of Carthage.
View editorals, obituaries and news articles in Joplin Globe, Carthage Press and many other newspapers. Some twenty-five planes flew into Joplin airport for the funeral in Carthage with nearly half the state legislatures attending his service in addition to his many friends, local, from throughout Missouri and from other states.
Death: in Boone Hospital Center, Boone county, Missouri
Father: Heber Reid Rose b: 5 JUL 1891 in Benkleman, Dundy county, Nebraska (grandson of pioneer Reginald Heber Rose, sr)
Mother: Christine Webster b: 15 APR 1898 in Wymore, Gage county, Nebraska (divorced, taught English at Carthage high school)
Marriage: Janet Poston Whitehead b: 31 MAR 1926 in Jefferson county, Missouri
Married: 3 JUL 1948 in Kimmswick, Jefferson county, Missouri
Known Children
Richard Melton Webster b: in Missouri
William L Webster b: in Missouri
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
h/o Janet Poston Whitehead
Birth: in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Attended Carthage public schools graduating Class 1940, then to Unversity of Missouri, roommate of Judge Herbert Castell upon return to college following Coast Guard service during WW II in South Pacific (retired U S Navy Reserves in 1968)
City Directory 1941, 1967, 1959 & 1953
One of Missouri's more distinguished senators, serving in state legislature for forty-two years, from 1948 till death in 1990, first in the house, was youngest speaker ever in 1954, then, 1962 in senate, re-elected minority floor leader in 1984 a seat earlier held by Arkley Frieze, A L McCawley and Allen McReynolds all of Carthage.
View editorals, obituaries and news articles in Joplin Globe, Carthage Press and many other newspapers. Some twenty-five planes flew into Joplin airport for the funeral in Carthage with nearly half the state legislatures attending his service in addition to his many friends, local, from throughout Missouri and from other states.
Death: in Boone Hospital Center, Boone county, Missouri
Father: Heber Reid Rose b: 5 JUL 1891 in Benkleman, Dundy county, Nebraska (grandson of pioneer Reginald Heber Rose, sr)
Mother: Christine Webster b: 15 APR 1898 in Wymore, Gage county, Nebraska (divorced, taught English at Carthage high school)
Marriage: Janet Poston Whitehead b: 31 MAR 1926 in Jefferson county, Missouri
Married: 3 JUL 1948 in Kimmswick, Jefferson county, Missouri
Known Children
Richard Melton Webster b: in Missouri
William L Webster b: in Missouri
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
Veteran: WW II (Coast Guard)
h/o Janet Poston Whitehead
Birth: in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Attended Carthage public schools graduating Class 1940, then to Unversity of Missouri, roommate of Judge Herbert Castell upon return to college following Coast Guard service during WW II in South Pacific (retired U S Navy Reserves in 1968)
City Directory 1941, 1967, 1959 & 1953
One of Missouri's more distinguished senators, serving in state legislature for forty-two years, from 1948 till death in 1990, first in the house, was youngest speaker ever in 1954, then, 1962 in senate, re-elected minority floor leader in 1984 a seat earlier held by Arkley Frieze, A L McCawley and Allen McReynolds all of Carthage.
View editorals, obituaries and news articles in Joplin Globe, Carthage Press and many other newspapers. Some twenty-five planes flew into Joplin airport for the funeral in Carthage with nearly half the state legislatures attending his service in addition to his many friends, local, from throughout Missouri and from other states.
Death: in Boone Hospital Center, Boone county, Missouri
Father: Heber Reid Rose b: 5 JUL 1891 in Benkleman, Dundy county, Nebraska (grandson of pioneer Reginald Heber Rose, sr)
Mother: Christine Webster b: 15 APR 1898 in Wymore, Gage county, Nebraska (divorced, taught English at Carthage high school)
Marriage: Janet Poston Whitehead b: 31 MAR 1926 in Jefferson county, Missouri
Married: 3 JUL 1948 in Kimmswick, Jefferson county, Missouri
Known Children
Richard Melton Webster b: in Missouri
William L Webster b: in Missouri
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
h/o Janet Poston Whitehead
Birth: in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Attended Carthage public schools graduating Class 1940, then to Unversity of Missouri, roommate of Judge Herbert Castell upon return to college following Coast Guard service during WW II in South Pacific (retired U S Navy Reserves in 1968)
City Directory 1941, 1967, 1959 & 1953
One of Missouri's more distinguished senators, serving in state legislature for forty-two years, from 1948 till death in 1990, first in the house, was youngest speaker ever in 1954, then, 1962 in senate, re-elected minority floor leader in 1984 a seat earlier held by Arkley Frieze, A L McCawley and Allen McReynolds all of Carthage.
View editorals, obituaries and news articles in Joplin Globe, Carthage Press and many other newspapers. Some twenty-five planes flew into Joplin airport for the funeral in Carthage with nearly half the state legislatures attending his service in addition to his many friends, local, from throughout Missouri and from other states.
Death: in Boone Hospital Center, Boone county, Missouri
Father: Heber Reid Rose b: 5 JUL 1891 in Benkleman, Dundy county, Nebraska (grandson of pioneer Reginald Heber Rose, sr)
Mother: Christine Webster b: 15 APR 1898 in Wymore, Gage county, Nebraska (divorced, taught English at Carthage high school)
Marriage: Janet Poston Whitehead b: 31 MAR 1926 in Jefferson county, Missouri
Married: 3 JUL 1948 in Kimmswick, Jefferson county, Missouri
Known Children
Richard Melton Webster b: in Missouri
William L Webster b: in Missouri
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
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