CARROLL DEAN SANDERS

March 20, 2023

MT. VERNON- Carroll Dean Sanders, 64, Mt. Vernon, died Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, following a short illness with cancer.

Survivors include a son, Carroll Dean Sanders Jr.; two sisters, Carolyn Wilson, Lamar and Shirley Gibbons, Indiana and one brother, John Sanders, Webb City.

He was preceded in death by his father and mother; one sister, Roselee Westbey and five brothers, Louis Howard Sanders Jr., Thomas Andrew Sanders, David Ross Sanders, James Dewey Sanders and Billy Joe Sanders.

Mr. Sanders was born June 15, 1959, in Lamar, to Howard and Maxine Sanders. He lived in Golden City and Lamar for most of is life. He was a farmer for over 20 years, milking cows and looking after the farm where he worked.