Elaine Haney

Thursday, July 20, 2017

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Elaine Clara Haney, 75, died July 19, 2017, at Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis.

Born Dec. 15, 1941, in Cairo, Ill., to the late Paul and Freda Schefer Scheffer, she had been employed at Brown Shoe Co. and later worked at the East Prairie Nursing Center. She was a member of St. Henry's Catholic Church in Charleston.

On Oct. 23, 1965, in Jackson, she married David Haney; and he survives of the home.

Additional survivors include: two sons and daughters-in-law, Richard and Laura Haney of East Prairie and Jerry and Amy Haney of Sikeston; three brothers, Joe Scheffer of Oak Ridge, Art Scheffer of Galatia, Ill. and Robert Scheffer of Dupo, Ill.; and three sisters, Dorothy Lynch of Sikeston, Ellen Chrostoki of Pittsburg, Ill. and LaDonna Triplett of Eldorado, Ill.; and three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie, where services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Burial will follow in the IOOF Cemetery in Charleston.

Pallbearers will be: Gary Picard, Ricky Henley, Joshua Nelson, Galen Baker, Darren Haney, Billy Ray Haney and Justin Eberhard.

Online condolences may be shared at www.ponderfuneralhome.com.