PEARL HAZEL DICKEY OF CALEDONIA, MISSOURI FORMERLY OF BELGRADE, MISSOURI WAS BORN TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1902 IN BELGRADE, MISSOURI A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE GEORGE AND ELLEN (TULLOCK) SEABOURNE. PEARL DEPARTED THIS LIFE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2003 AT THE WASHINGTON COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT THE AGE OF ONE HUNDRED AND ONE YEARS AND FIFTEEN DAYS.
PEARL WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO HARTIE DICKEY IN BELGRADE, MISSOURI MARCH 17, 1926. THEY WERE BLESSED TO HAVE FOUR CHILDREN BORN TO THE UNION.
PEARL LEAVES TO SURVIVE HER TWO SONS, LEO DAVID DICKEY AND WIFE CAROLE OF BELGRADE, MISSOURI, LARRY WAYNE DICKEY AND WIFE NANCY OF CINCINNATI, OHIO; ONE DAUGHTER, INA CAROL O'NEAL AND HUSBAND JOHN OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI; ONE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, ALTA MAE DICKEY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI; TEN GRANDCHILDREN, FOUR STEP GRANDCHILDREN, THIRTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AND A HOST OF OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS AND HUSBAND, SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SON, ELMO SEABOURNE DICKEY, GRANDSON ALLEN DICKEY, THREE BROTHERS, CECIL, ARTHUR AND JAMES SEABOURNE,, EIGHT SISTERS, ETHEL SEABOURNE, DOCIA BAYS, ANN HANSON, NORA SUTTON, BESSIE HORTON, LOLA JARVIS, CALLIE HUITT AND VELMA BROOKS.
PEARL TAUGHT SCHOOL FOR A FEW YEARS BEFORE UNITING IN MARRIAGE TO HER HUSBAND. AFTER HER MARRIAGE SHE DEVOTED HER LIFE TO HER FARMING HUSBAND, CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
PEARL WAS A MEMBER OF THE BELGRADE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AND A SEVENTY-FIVE YEAR PLUS MEMBER OF THE BELGRADE CHAPTER #394 ORDER OF EASTERN STAR.
PEARL LOVED TO SPEND TIME QUILTING AND CROCHETING. SHE WOULD TAKE SPECIAL TIME TO CLIP ITEMS AND PHOTOS TO ASSEMBLE A SCRAPBOOK TO CHERISH THE MEMORIES. ONE OF HER GREATEST LOVE WAS HER GRANDCHILDREN, SHE ALWAYS HAD THE TIME AND STRENGTH TO ROCK THEM AND GIVE THAT LITTLE EXTRA LOVE THEY NEEDED FROM HER.
PEARL ENJOYED HER LOVING FAMILY AND THE MANY FRIENDS WHO VISITED HER. SHE LOOKED FORWARD EACH YEAR TO A CELEBRATION OF HER BIRTHDAY AND THE MANY OTHER FAMILY GATHERINGS.
VISITATION FOR PEARL WAS HELD FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI, MISSOURI AND SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2003 FROM 9:00 A.M. TO 11:00 A.M. AT THE BELGRADE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, BELGRADE, MISSOURI. AN EASTERN STAR MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 AT 7:00 P.M. AT THE MOORE MEMORIAL CHAPEL CONDUCTED BY THE BELGRADE CHAPTER #394 ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2003 AT 11:00 A.M. AT THE BELGRADE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WITH REVEREND JULIUS KETSENBURG OFFICIATING. MUSICAL SELECTIONS PLAYED DURING THE FUNERAL WERE WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN, WHEN THE ROLL IS CALLED UP YONDER AND VICTORY IN JESUS. BURIAL WAS IN THE SUNLIGHT CEMETERY, BELGRADE, MISSOURI. SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE JEREMY MURRISH, SHANE TIMSLEY, AARON DICKEY, MICHAEL GUM, GLENN NEMEC, JEREMY DICKEY AND JASON DICKEY.