GRACE BOURISAW OF OLD MINES, MISSOURI, WAS BORN JANUARY 28, 1912, IN CADET, MISSOURI, A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE JOSEPH RICHARD AND MARY JOSEPHINE (KINCAID) COLEMAN. GRACE DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT GEORGIAN GARDENS NURSING HOME ON JULY 27, 2000, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF EIGHTY- EIGHT YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND TWENTY-NINE DAYS.
GRADE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO RAYMOND J. BOURISAW ON JANUARY 28, 1936, IN OLD MINES, MISSOURI.
GRACE IS SURVIVED BY TWO AUNTS, CORA COLEMAN OF ST. LOUIS AND THERESA CORDS OF HORINE, TWO SISTERS-IN-LAW, THELMA COLEMAN OF ST. LOUIS AND MARY ALICE THEBEAU OF POTOSI, ONE FOSTER SON, CHARLES DULWORTH OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANNA AND BY MANY NIECES, NEPHEWS OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS AND SPOUSE, RAYMOND SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO SISTERS, MARY ALICE COLEMAN PASHIA AND MARY CYNTHIA COLEMAN AND BY ONE BROTHER, RAYMOND FRANCIS COLEMAN.
GRACE WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE ST. JOACHIM CHURCH, OLD MINES, MISSOURI. GRACE ENJOYED QUILTING AND WORKING WITH FLOWERS. SHE WILL LONG BE REMEMBERED FOR HER TITLE AS A GOOD COOK AS SHE ALWAYS ENJOYED SHARING THAT TALENT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
GRACE HELD THE TIME SPENT WITH HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS CLOSE TO HER HEART.
VISITATION WAS HELD MONDAY, JULY 31, 2000, FROM 11:00 A.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
A FUNERAL MASS WAS CONDUCTED TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2000, AT 10:00 A.M. AT ST. JOACHIM CATHOLIC CHURCH WITH FATHER TED PIEPER OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN ST. JOACHIM CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, MIKE COLEMAN, DARRELL COLEMAN, CHARLES COLEMAN, PAUL THEBEAU, MAX VILLMER, MARTIN VILLMER, CHARLES PASHIA, KENNY BOURISAW AND VINCENT COLEMAN.