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Frances Marie
Levingston, 82, of Mexico, died at 11:41 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4, 2002, at
Audrain Medical Center in Mexico.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday at 10 a.m. at
Pickering Funeral Home with the Rev. Jerry Ostrom officiating.
Visitation will be Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Levingston was born on Dec. 31, 1919, in Audrain
County, a daughter of John Harrison and Rose Ellen Scott Stowers. On
Dec. 25, 1941, in Fulton, she married Eugene Levingston, who died on May
12, 1970.
She spent her life teaching young children at Union, Hisey
and Jackson rural schools and at St. Brendan. Later she had the Pooh
Bear Nursery School for about 10 years. She loved children and taught
them at vacation Bible school, Camp Cedarcrest and in Sunday school. She
was an accomplished painter and taught art classes.
Her survivors include three sons, Dean Levingston, Las
Vegas, Nev., Donn Levingston and his wife Kandi, Concho, Ariz., and
David Levingston and his wife Judy, Phoenix, Ariz.; five daughters,
Shelbe Wolfe, Chicago, Sharon Holland and her husband Curt, Fulton, Sue
Howell and her husband Darrell, Waterford, Mich., Sallee Lauer and her
husband Stan, Mexico, and Sharie Levingston, St. Louis; one brother,
Lester Stowers and his wife Wanda, Mexico; one sister, Nettie J. Given
and her husband J.W., Mexico; twelve grandchildren, 19 great
grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
Two granddaughters, her parents, husband and a brother,
Oscar Stowers preceded her in death.
Memorials may be sent to the Centennial Baptist Church in
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