All Obituaries

“When we all get to Heaven,       What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus,       We’ll sing and shout the victory.” Today, Wilma Jean Orwig-Brown of Fayette, Missouri, is singing and shouting, because she has now seen Jesus face-to-face. Whether you knew Jean well or not, she would’ve considered you a dear friend. She truly never knew a stranger, and her generosity, her approachableness, and...

JoAnn began her life in 1931 in Hannibal, Missouri, as the youngest of six children during the Great Depression. Three of her siblings served in the military, so she understood the call to duty and service early in her life when they left for World War II. As a teenager, Jo, as her family called her, loved riding the streetcar in St Louis and working as a carhop for the hot dog stand. Not long after high school, she joined the Marines as a clerk-typist, though she never thought she was...

   William Glenn Timbrook passed away on August 6, 2020 at his home in Columbia.    Funeral Services will be at 3:00 p.m. Monday, August 10, 2020 at Bach-Yager Funeral Chapel.  Visitation will be from 1:00 p.m. until time of service. Burial will follow the service at White Cloud Cemetery, between Millersburg and Fulton.  Because of the COVID virus the City of Columbia requires the wearing of face masks and social distancing in all public buildings.  The...

Kahsay Teclay, 61, of Columbia, MO, passed on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 surrounded by family. Graveside funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Saturday, August 8th at Columbia Cemetery.  Kahsay was born March 15, 1959 in Asmara, Eritrea, the son of Teclay Sebhatu and Haregu Araia.                        

Donald Charles (Chuck) Malin, 71, of Columbia Missouri passed away on August 3, 2020. He was born on August 6, 1948, in Caruthersville Missouri, to Donald Reginald and Virginia Mae (Casillo) Malin. After graduating from Caruthersville High School in 1967 he enlisted in the Navy where he was an aircraft mechanic. After being honorably discharged in 1970 he continued working as a mechanic until accepting a position with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Throughout his tenure with the Corps he...

Everett "Butch" Lindahl, Jr., 68, of Columbia, MO, passed on Monday, July 27, 2020 at the VA Hospital. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Monday, August 3 at Bach-Yager Funeral Chapel with family receiving friends from 1:00 p.m. until time for the service.  Burial at the Millersburg Baptist Cemetery in Millersburg will follow the service. Everett was born in Oak Park, Illinois on December 26, 1951 the son of Everett, Sr. and Helen  McConnell Lindahl and they...

Tresa Hoffman Biesemeyer 1955 – 2020 Tresa Lynn Hoffman Biesemeyer, 65, of Moberly, MO passed away July 22, 2020 at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia. Tresa was born May 13, 1955 in Mexico, MO a daughter of Virgil and Betty Muster Hoffman.  She married Melvin Biesemeyer at Moniteau Chapel Church on July 23, 1997.  He survives at their home.  Prior to retirement she was employed with the University of Missouri Hospital as a secretary.  She loved her family and...

It is with heavy hearts that we must say goodbye to our beloved Heather Spaur, 37. She left us too soon and our last goodbyes were never said. She was born on December 31, 1982 in Lincoln, Nebraska, the daughter of Steven and Carolyn Sue Helton Spaur.  Heather grew up in Columbia, Missouri, graduating from Rockbridge High School in 2001. She was a devoted mother, loving sister, daughter, aunt and friend to all who knew her. Heather is survived by her daughter, Olivia; parents, Sue and...

Janet Susan Lingelbach Hemme, 68, of St. James, Missouri, formerly of Ames passed away on Friday, July 17, 2020 at University Hospital & Clinics in Columbia, Missouri. Jan was born on December 3, 1951, in Boone, Iowa, the daughter of Robert and Louise Frank Pholner.  On February 14, 2006 she married John Hemme in St. James, Missouri.  She had previously been married to Bennett Lingelbach.  She enjoyed listening to George Strait songs and dancing.  Jan loved her many...

Thomas Arthur Jones, 59, of Harrisburg, passed away on Saturday, July 11, 2020 at Boone Hospital Center surrounded by family. Due to COVID-19 there will be a private family funeral. Tom was born on September 9, 1960, in Festus to the late Willis and Gertrude Jones.  On March 26, 1983, he married Alice Lorinda “Lori” Bryson in Columbia.  He was a jack of all trades – mechanic, truck driver and heavy equipment mechanic.  Tom could fix just about...