Joseph Junior Messex

JOSEPH JUNIOR MESSEX OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, WAS BORN JUNE 8, 1947, IN RICHWOODS, MISSOURI, A SON OF JOSEPH WILLIAM MESSEX AND THE LATE BLANCHE LUCILLE DECLUE. JOSEPH DEPARTED THIS LIFE SUDDENLY JUNE 10, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF FIFTY-TWO YEARS AND TWO DAYS.
JOSEPH WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO KAY FOX ON JUNE 3, 1999, IN POTOSI, MISSOURI.
JOSEPH IS SURVIVED BY HIS LOVING WIFE, KAY MESSEX OF POTOSI, HIS FATHER, JOSEPH WILLIAM MESSEX OF SULLIVAN, TWO DAUGHTERS, SHELIA LAIRD AND HUSBAND JOHN OF NEW HAVEN, SUSAN OWENS AND HUSBAND BOB OF ST. CHARLES, ONE GRANDSON, BOBBY JO OWENS, ONE STEP DAUGHTER, GWENDOLYN FOX OF POTOSI, ONE STEP SON, ZACHARIAH FOX OF THE FAMILY HOME, ONE GRANDDAUGHTER, TAYLOR OWENS, TWO BROTHERS, ERNEST MESSEX AND WIFE BARBARA OF BOURBON, FRED DECLUE AND WIFE JAN OF DITTMER, ONE SISTER, LINDA COURTWAY AND HUSBAND PAUL OF RICHWOODS AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. JOSEPH WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS MOTHER, BLANCHE DECLUE AND ONE BROTHER, RICKY MESSEX.
VISITATION WAS HELD MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1999, FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1999, AT 11:00 A.M. AT THE MOORE FUNERAL CHAPEL WITH REVEREND DAVID OVERALL OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN HORINE CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, PAUL COURTWAY, RICK DECLUE, AARON SAUNDERS, STEVE DECLUE, JOHN LAIRD AND BOB OWENS. HONORARY PALLBEARERS WERE, REVEREND WILL PERRY AND DARRELL VANCE.