WILLIAM DEARING

SPRINGFIELD- A visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, at Greenlawn Funeral Home North for William Jewell Dearing, 85, Springfield, who died Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, at White Chapel Memorial Gardens in Springfield.

Survivors include a daughter, DeAnna Gippner and husband Ron, Kansas City, Mo.; a son, Timothy Dearing and wife Kelly, Bois D’Arc and grandsons, Benjamin and Alexander Gippner, Kansas City, Mo.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 44 years, Deborah.

Mr. Dearing was born Feb. 9, 1939, in Lamar, to Willis Dearing and Sada Dearing. He married Deborah Sue Boehne on Dec. 6, 1969, in Lockwood.