VERLA DELORES DEE OF POTOSI, MO, WAS BORN AT FRANKCLAY, MO, ON APRIL 17, 1935. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE LEO AND EULA (BRAND) GLORE. VERLA DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT PARKLAND HEALTH CENTER IN FARMINGTON, MO ON MARCH 26, 2001 HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SIXTY-FIVE YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS, AND NINE DAYS.
VERLA WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO THOMAS FRANKLIN DEE, JR. ON JUNE 14,1952.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND THOMAS FRANKLIN DEE, JR. OF POTOSI, ONE DAUGHTER, TAMMY KIMREY AND HUSBAND KERRY OF FARMINGTON; THREE SONS, THOMAS DEE AND WIFE BETTY OF POTOSI, TIM DEE AND WIFE KAREN OF BISMARCK, TODD DEE AND WIFE KIM OF LEADWOOD; EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN; JASON, DAWN, ANGIE, MICHAEL, COREY, JOSH, JORDAN, AND WHITNEY; THREE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, BLAKE, JACIE AND GRANT; FOUR BROTHERS, FURLIN "PUD" GLORE AND WIFE OUITA OF MINERAL POINT, BOBBY GLORE OF MINERAL POINT, DARRELL GLORE AND WIFE PEGGY OF KENTUCKY AND WAYNE GLORE OF MINERAL POINT; ONE SISTER, SHIRLEY DAVIS AND HUSBAND KENNETH OF POTOSI. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SISTER NELMA COLEMAN.
VERLA WAS A LONG TIME MEMBER OF THE LADIES VFW AUXILIARY AND THE POTOSI LIONESS. VERLA HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR HER FAMILY ESPECIALLY FOR HER GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
VISITATION WAS HELD TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2001, FROM 4:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2001, AT 11:00 A.M. AT THE MOORE CHAPEL WITH REVEREND RANDY JACKSON OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN REDBUD MEMORIAL GARDENS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, JASON DEE, COREY DEE, MICHAEL KIMREY, JOSH KIMREY, JORDAN KIMREY, JOE COLEMAN AND GARY COLEMAN.