Lorretta Richards

LORETTA "DODIE" RICHARDS
LORETTA "DODIE" RICHARDS OF CALEDONIA, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA ON DECEMBER 18, 1933. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE WILLIAM AND LOIS ( CAMPBELL) BRADFORD. "DODIE" DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE WASHINGTON COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN POTOSI, MISSOURI ON NOVEMBER 24, 2001 HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SIXTY-SEVEN YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS AND SIX DAYS.
SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO RON RICHARDS ON AUGUST 6, 1994 IN CALEDONIA, MISSOURI.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER SPOUSE, RON RICHARDS OF CALEDONIA, MISSOURI, FIVE STEP DAUGHTERS, AVA JO TAYLOR AND HUSBAND PHIL OF O'CALLA, FLORIDA, BARB LUCAS AND HUSBAND JOHN OF CALEDONIA, MISSOURI, TAMMY HARTLEY AND HUSBAND BILL OF BOLIVER, MISSOURI, KIM DANE OF BONNE TERRE, MISSOURI, AND LISA BRADLEY AND HUSBAND JOHN OF FARMINGTON, MISSOURI. SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY NINE STEP GRANDCHILDREN AND FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE STEP GRANDSON, AND HER BROTHER LARRY LEROY BRADFORD.
DODIE WAS ALWAYS KNOWN FOR HER GREAT COOKING SKILLS. SHE ALWAYS HAD SOMETHING GREAT COOKING.
DODIE ALWAYS LOVED TO VISIT AND SEE PEOPLE. SHE ALWAYS HAD A FRIENDLY DOOR OPEN FOR ANYONE.
VISITATION FOR DODIE WAS HELD MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2001 FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AND TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2001 FROM 8:30 A.M. TO 10:00 A.M. AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI, MISSOURI. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2001 AT 10:00 A.M. AT THE MOORE MEMORIAL CHAPEL WITH ELDER LEONARD COMPTON OFFICIATING. MUSIC WAS PROVIDED BY DONNA WARDEN. SERVING AS PALL BEARERS WERE TRACY MAXWELL, PAUL WARDEN, TONY MAXWELL, JOHN LUCAS, JOHNNY LUCAS AND BILL MAXWELL. BURIAL WAS IN THE BELLEVUE PRESBYTERIAN CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI, MISSOURI.