Lois Corder's Obituary
Lois J. Corder, daughter of Mose and Sarah Della Gaskill Ipock was born March 4, 1923, in Wright County, Missouri, near Antioch Church and departed this life on September 17, 2011, in St. John?s Regional Health Center in Springfield, Missouri, at the age of eighty-eight years, six months and thirteen days. On October 3, 1945, she was united in marriage to Judd Corder and to this union four children were born. She was preceded in death by her husband, Judd on July 16, 2001, her parents and two sisters, Esta Moody and Norma Bledsoe. Lois is survived by two daughters, Carol Sue Watterson and her husband Johnny of Mansfield, Missouri, and Donna Mistler and her husband Dennis of Owensville, Missouri; two sons, Larry Corder and his wife Susan of Springfield, Missouri, and Gary Corder and his wife Jean of Mansfield, Missouri; eleven grandchildren, Shannon Watterson and his wife Trish, Sunny Rost and her husband Jason, Mica Campbell and her husband Brad, Jonathon Judd Corder Clavin, Kendall Clavin, Scott Corder and his wife Melissa, Austin Corder and his companion Jamie, Jamin Corder and his wife Tabby, Jeremy Corder and his companion Roxann, Cody Corder and Kyla Corder; eleven-great-grandchildren; one step-granddaughter, Amanda Butcher and her husband Billy; two step-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Eva Mays of Seymour and Freda McCarty and her husband Willard of Mtn. Grove; along with a host of other relatives and many friends. Lois was born and raised in the Mansfield area and graduated from Mansfield High School in the Class of 1942. She worked as a secretary at Mansfield Schools from 1942 until 1944. In 1944 she and her sister Norma went to Kansas City and worked at Pratt-Whitney during the war where they made aircraft engine parts for war planes. Soon after Judd was discharged from the Army, they were married and purchased the home place from her dad and lived the rest of their lives there. She worked at Richards Brothers Store and Tobin-Hamilton Shoe Factory and helped Judd on the farm while raising her family. Lois was saved at an early age and joined the Lead Hill Freewill Baptist Church the day it was organized on March 9, 1941. In her spare time she loved a good auction and garage sales and had antique booths at various malls. Proverbs 31: 10-31 really sums up her life.
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