Mary Harless

Sunday, November 20, 2016

SIKESTON -- Mary Ruth Harless, 61, died Nov. 17, 2016, at St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis.

Born April 23, 1955, in Kokomo, Ind., to the late George and Marylene Whitaker Myers, she was a registered nurse at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

On Aug. 26, 1977, she married Robert Harless who survives of the home.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Robert and Jennifer Harless of Kokomo and Jason and Joyce Harless of Hayward, Calif.; one brother, Jay Tucker of Kokomo; four sisters, Georgetta Simmons and Brenda Reed both of Fort Wayne, Ind., Carol Purvis of Kokomo and Susan Leonard of Bakers Corner, Ind.; and three grandchildren.

Visitation will be from noon until service time at 2 p.m. Saturday at Hunter Memorial Presbyterian Church of Sikeston.

Ponder Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences can be made at www.ponderfuneralhome.com.