Raymond Belfield

REVEREND RAYMOND ROY BELFIELD
REVEREND RAYMOND BELFIELD OF BONNE TERRE, MISSOURI, FORMERLY OF POTOSI, WAS BORN JANUARY 5, 1917, IN TOPOZARK, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE ARTHUR AND ALICE (MARLER) BELFIELD. RAYMOND DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT MISSOURI BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER ON JUNE 26, 2000, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF EIGHTY-THREE YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND TWENTY-ONE DAYS.
RAYMOND WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO PANSY FINLEY ON AUGUST 10, 1935, IN BELGRADE, MISSOURI, AND TO THIS UNION SEVEN CHILDREN WERE BORN.
RAYMOND IS SURVIVED BY HIS LOVING WIFE, PANSY C. BELFIELD OF BONNE TERRE, TWO SONS, RAY BELFIELD AND WIFE RUBY OF MINERAL POINT, DONALD BELFIELD AND WIFE CAROL OF POTOSI, THREE DAUGHTERS, DOROTHY YOUNT AND HUSBAND JACK OF HIGH RIDGE, CAROLYN AGENT AND HUSBAND WAYNE OF BURNA, KENTUCKY, DANA ROUSAN AND HUSBAND WILLIAM OF MINERAL POINT, A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, DEBBIE BELFIELD OF MINERAL POINT, NINETEEN GRANDCHILDREN, TWENTY-THREE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, FOUR GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, ONE STEP SISTER, RUBY GREEN OF LEADWOOD, TWO SISTERS-IN- LAW, VIRGINIA BELFIELD OF PARK HILLS, NORMA JEAN BELFIELD OF MINERAL POINT, ONE BROTHER-IN-LAW, CARL SPARKS OF POTOSI AND BY MANY NIECES, NEPHEWS, OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO SONS, RICHARD AND JESSE BELFIELD, TWO BROTHERS, TRUMAN AND MARVIN BUD BELFIELD AND BY ONE SISTER, MARIE SPARKS.
REVEREND BELFIELD WAS A DEDICATED MAN TO THE LORD HAVING SERVED IN MANY AREA CHURCHES DURING HIS LIFE. HIS CARING HEART LEAD HIM TO A CAREER IN CARPENTRY WHERE HE NOT ONLY WORKED AROUND HIS OWN HOME BUT FOR OTHERS IN THE AREA. REVEREND BELFIELD WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS CARING AND JOLLY ATTITUDE, BY HIS MANY TRIPS ON THE TRAIN FROM BISMARCK TO IRONDALE, MISSOURI, DURING THE CHRISTMAS TIME DRESSED AS SANTA CLAUS. HE ENJOYED SPENDING TIME WITH THE MANY GIFTS OF MOTHER NATURE BUT ESPECIALLY CHERISHED THE TIME HE SPENT GARDENING. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE MASONIC LODGE #535 A.F. & A.M. BLACKWELL, MISSOURI, AND THE ORDER OF EASTERN STAR OF JONESBURG, MISSOURI.
VISITATION WAS HELD WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2000, FROM 4:30 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 2000, AT 10:30 A.M. AT THE POTOSI UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WITH REVEREND BOB BULLOCK OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN RED BUD MEMORIAL GARDENS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOMES, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, RICK PRICE, MARK HLOBEN, ALLEN ROUSAN, ROGER JAMES, JESSE BELFIELD, JOSH BELFIELD, BOB ROUSAN, NAT ROUSAN, STEVE ROUSAN, DON BELFIELD, CHRIS BELFIELD AND SCOTT PRICE.