Naomi Tucker

ESSEX, Mo. — Naomi Lee Westfall Tucker, daughter of the late Benjamin F. Westfall and Bessie Mae Pilkenton Westfall, was born on Aug. 2, 1929, and departed this life on July 16, 2018, at her residence in Essex at the age of 88 years.

Mrs. Tucker was an elementary school teacher at Grayridge and Galloway schools. She helped on the family farm, Tucker Farm, where there wasn’t a task she wouldn’t do.

On Sept. 25, 1948, in Piggott, Ark., she married Carol Otis Tucker. Mr. Tucker preceded her in death on Jan. 13, 1981.

Survivors include: one daughter, Twyla Renea Tucker of Essex; and two brothers, James Westfall of Hillsboro and Nolas Westfall of St. Louis.

Besides her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Alvin Ray Dean and Flavel Westfall; and two sisters, Virginia Westfall Cowan McGinns and Ada Mae Westfall Balter.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, on Friday, July 20, 2018, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Funeral services will be conducted on Friday, July 20, 2018, at 11 a.m. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter with Jeremy Tucker officiating.

Interment will follow in the Dexter Cemetery.

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