Treasured Seasons

For everything there is
   an appointed season.
And a time for everything
   under heaven -
A time for sharing;
   a time for caring.
A time for loving;
   a time for giving.
A time for remembering;
   a time for parting.
You have made everything
   beautiful in its time
For everything You do
   remains forever.

      Long-time educator and resident of Mexico, Lorraine Roberts Pearson, 100, died on November 17, 2003, at North Kansas City Hospital, North Kansas City, Missouri.

Graveside services, under the direction of Pickering Funeral Home, will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday November 21, 2003, at Elmwood Cemetery in Mexico. The Rev. Randall A. Sawyer will officiate. There will be no visitation.

Mrs. Pearson and her husband, Joseph Anderson Pearson, resided in Mexico and raised their two children, Robert Jo Pearson and Jo Anne Pearson here.

She had recently resided at the Woodbine Health Care and Rehab Center in Gladstone, Mo.

While living in Mexico she was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a charter member of Chapter HD, P.E.O. Mrs. Pearson was a teacher at Community R-VI for 19 years.

A daughter, Jo Anne, who lives in Florida and is confined to a wheelchair, survives. Four grandchildren, Joseph Anderson Pearson II and wife Michelle, Lone Oak, Texas, Robin Stanley and husband David, Kansas City, Suzanne Pearson, Kansas City, and Dana Pearson, Columbia; and three great grandchildren, Grant, Matt and Jerah also survive her.

Her husband Joseph, son Robert, two brothers and one sister preceded her in death.

Her family suggests memorial contributions be given to the P.E.O. Educational Loan Fund, in care of Pickering Funeral Home, 403 N. Western, Mexico, MO 65265.

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