St. Clair County Obits

TOBIE TUCKER

Bolivar Herald-Free Press
February 6, 1969
Page B-7
Rev. T. M. Tucker, 72, a retired Methodist Minister, died at 5:40 a.m. Tuesday, February 4, at Burge Protestant Hospital in Springfield, Missouri following a short illness. A resident of Bolivar the past several years and a native of Osceola, he had been an active minister over 40 years. A veteran of WWI, he was a member of the Untied Methodist Church, Bolivar, Missouri, the Bolivar Kiwanis Club and WWI Barracks of Bolivar. His ministries included Pastorates in Osceola, Corder, Bucker, Kansas, and Oklahoma, Indiana, and Ohio.

He is survived by his wife, Edith of the home, one son, Maurice Monroe Tucker of Dallas, Texas, one daughter, Mrs. Mary Lynn Joplin of Roswell, New Mexico; two sisters, Mrs. Linnie Baxter and Miss Leona Tucker, both of Bolivar and one granddaughter.

Funeral services will be announced by the Pitts Funeral Home.



St. Clair Courier
February 6, 1969
Front Page
Rev. Tobie Tucker Rites Feb. 6
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon, Feb 6, at 2 p.m. at the Methodist church in Bolivar for Rev. Tobie Tucker, who was born and reared here. A former pastor in Osceola, Rev. Tucker died Feb 4 at Burge Hospital in Springfield.

He is a brother of Homer Tucker of Osceola.

Burial will be made in the Osceola cemetery.

Submitted by Marie Reynolds