Pickering Funeral Home

When I come to the end of the day
And the sun has set for me
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room.
Why cry for a soul set free?

Miss me a little, but not too long
And not with your head bowed low.
Remember the love that we once shared-
Miss me, but let me go.

For this is a journey we all must take
And each must go alone.
It’s all a part of the Maker’s plan,
A step on the road to home.

When you are lonely and sick at heart
Go to the friends we know
And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds-
Miss me, but let me go.

Vivian Dean Brandow, 67, of Mexico, died at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2003, at Audrain Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, Feb. 28, at 2 p.m. at Pickering Funeral Home with the Revs. Jerry Ostrom and Chris Atkinson officiating. Visitation will be on Thursday from 6 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Park.

Mrs. Brandow was born on Sept. 12, 1935, in Callao, a daughter of George Albert and Rachel Ann Seney Coffman. On Aug. 26, 1953, in Cairo, Mo., she married John F. Brandow, who died on Jan. 3, 2003.

Survivors include two sons, Greg Brandow, Oakboro, N.C., and Larry Brandow and wife Kerri, Mexico; a daughter, Chris Ann Killday and husband Robert F., Kirksville; two brothers, George Coffman and wife Charlotte, Jefferson City, and Orville Coffman and wife Alma, Higbee; four sisters, Alberta Lorton and husband David, Moberly, Martha Million, Bloomington, Ill., Dorothy Switzer, Ozark, and Dora Hoppe, Palm Springs, Calif.; seven grandchildren, Eric, Robert and Aaron Killday, Lance Brandow, Katie Smart, JoJo Kehl and Heather Brandow; and nine great grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, one son, Curtis Wayne Brandow, two sisters, Edith Coffman and Velma Pouliot, and her parents preceded her in death.

The family suggests memorials be given to the AMC Foundation or the Centennial Baptist Church where Mrs. Brandow was a member. Memorials may be sent in care of Pickering Funeral Home.