WILMETTA ROSE JEFFRIES

LAMAR- A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, at Daniel Funeral Home for Wilmetta Rose Jeffries, 93, Lamar, who died at her home on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Burial will follow in Memory Gardens Cemetery.

A visitation will be held at the funeral home prior to the service, beginning at 10 a.m.

Memorial gifts may be made payable to the First Baptist Church of Lamar, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.dfhlamar.com.

Survivors include a son, Dennis Jeffries and wife Carol, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; a daughter, Gale Main and husband Tom, Lamar; nine grandchildren, 40 great grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren; a sister, Jeanette McColm, Kansas City, Mo.; a brother Larry Frogge and wife Marsha, Sedalia and a sister-in-law, Marilyn Frogge Davies, Platte City.

She was preceded in death by her husband; a brother, Wayne Frogge; a sister and brother-in-law, Carmen and Gerald Dean Medlin and a brother-in-law, Larry McColm.

Mrs. Jeffries was born on June 25, 1930, in Lamar, to Earl William and Thelma Melissa (Rose) Frogge. She was the oldest of five siblings.

During high school, her parents owned a dairy farm where she would help deliver milk before school, rain or shine. She was a drum majorette, graduating from Lamar High School in 1947. On June 27, 1948, she married her high school sweetheart, Philip Jeffries, a union of nearly 61 years. Being a minister's wife, she had a heart for the Lord and was willing to travel alongside him wherever the Lord led them. She worked several years as a receptionist for Dr. Small, a local chiropractor. In 1971, they moved to Little Rock, Ark., where her husband accepted a job. While living there she was very involved in the Rebsamen Golf Course Ladies Association and was a member of a ladies bridge club. Her husband’s work moved them overseas briefly, living on the Micronesian Island of Pohnpei. In 2008 they moved back to Lamar to be near family due to his declining health. She was a true example of a Godly women who lovingly and selflessly cared for her family.