Thursday, March 27, 2014

Obituary -- Grace Downing 1930-2014



     Grace H. Downing, 83, Maryville, Missouri passed from this life March 25, 2014.  She was born on December 7, 1930 to Charlie and Josephine Frump. 

     On July 19, 1947 she married William Oakley Downing. To this union six daughters were born, Rita (Larry) Chafin, Barbara (Ron) Collins, Brenda (Ben) Barger, Judy (Jerry) Wonderly, Willa Mace and Cara (Jeremy) Baumli, as well as many loving grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Also surviving are her brother Charles Frump of Linden, Washington, sisters: Beverly Grimit of Maryville, Mayetta Miller of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Ida Smyser of Maryville. 

     She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, an infant brother, her granddaughter Traci Mullock and brother Bill Frump.

     Grace willed her body to science. Memorials may be made to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation or the American Cancer Society.

     Arrangements are under the direction of the Prugh-Dunfee Funeral Home in Grant City, Missouri.

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