Audrey Ayres

AUDREY M. AYRES OF CANTON, MISSOURI, FORMERLY OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT IRONDALE, MISSOURI ON DECEMBER 4, 1920. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE JOSEPH AND VIRGINIA (WOOLFORD) CONWAY. AUDREY DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON MAY 31, 2003 AT THE KINDRED HOSPITAL IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF EIGHTY-TWO YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND TWENTY-SEVEN DAYS.
SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO BERNARD KENNETH AYRES ON JULY 27, 1949 IN PIGGOTT, ARKANSAS.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER LOVING AND DEVOTED HUSBAND OF FIFTY-THREE YEARS, BERNARD KENNETH AYRES OF CANTON, MISSOURI, SISTER-IN-LAWS, A BROTHER-IN-LAW, NIECES, NEPHEWS AND OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY SISTER, EDITH BLUM, AND BROTHERS, RAYMOND CONWAY, HAROLD CONWAY AND VERNON CONWAY.
AUDREY ENJOYED THE MANY GIFTS OF MOTHER NATURE AND IN HER YOUNGER YEARS SHE LOVED FISHING. WHEN SHE WAS ABLE, AUDREY ENJOYED LIFE TO THE FULLEST. SHE WILL BE LOVINGLY REMEMBERED BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
VISITATION WAS HELD 10:00 A.M. TO 2:00 P.M. ON SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2003 AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, IRONDALE.
A FUNERAL SERVICE WAS CONDUCTED 2:00 P.M. ON SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2003 WITH REV. BRUCE TORRENCE OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN THE BIG RIVER CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, IRONDALE.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, JASON WILLIAMS, CHRIS WILLIAMS, JIMMY WILLIAMS, TIMMY WILLIAMS, JOE CONWAY AND STEVE CONWAY.