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Wilma Tucker Obituary
Wilma Ruth Tucker, 85, of Springfield, Mo., passed away on August 3, 2015 in The Cambridge. She was born on November 28, 1929 in Polk County on Thanksgiving Day. She went to Strafford High school. Wilma was a self- employed real estate broker for over 20 years. She was a member of Macedonia Baptist church. Wilma loved her cats.
Wilma was preceded in death by her two husbands, Kenneth Dorrell and Oscar Dan Tucker; her parents, Landon Campbell Viles and Ethel May Viles.
She is survived by her children, Stephen Dorrell and wife Patty, Vickie Brown and husband Gary, Rita Elliott and husband Dale, and Scott Dorrell; eight grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren.
Services for Wilma will be Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 10 a.m. in Greenlawn Funeral Home South. Burial will follow at Mount View Cemetery in Polk, MO. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday evening in the funeral home.
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