Glenna Lee (Messick) Yarnell
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Glenna Lee (Messick) Yarnell was born August 1, 1915 and went into the arms of her Savior, Jesus Christ, February 10, 2012. She was born north of Clarksdale, Missouri on a farm near Boxford. She lived near and in Clarksdale all of her life until she moved to
Vintage Garden South in November 2005. She moved to Carriage Square Health Care
Center in December 2011.
She graduated from Clarksdale High School in 1933. She was a member of the Clarksdale Methodist Church since 1925. She was a member of the Clarksdale Sunlight
Chapter #247 of the Eastern Star. She was a three time Worthy Matron and a Grand
Representative to Manitoba, Canada.
She worked 20 years in St. Joseph, Missouri; four years at Wyatt & Green Box Factory
and sixteen years for Fashion Line Bag Company.
She had a long, busy, eventful life. She loved to write poetry and often wrote and
recited poems for special occasions. She also loved to travel and took many trips, several outside the United States. In 2000, she toured Israel and Switzerland. While in Israel,
she was baptized in the Jordan River. She traveled to Ireland in 2002, where she
visited Blarney Castle and kissed the Blarney Stone at age 87. She took several cruises.
She traveled through Canada by train and visited Alaska and Hawaii.
She married Earl Yarnell on September 15, 1934, who died August 4, 1993. They had
two sons, Roger Lee Yarnell, who died May 7, 2010, and Charles Raymond Yarnell.
She is survived by her son, Ray Yarnell and daughter-in-law, Ellen, of Stewartsville and
her daughter-in-law, Teresa, of Edmond, Oklahoma. She has four grandchildren;
eleven great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
Visitation will begin after 9am, Thursday at Heaton-Bowman-Smith & Sidenfaden Chapel where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 pm, Thursday evening. The funeral will be at the Methodist Church in Clarksdale, Missouri at 10:30 am on Friday, Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Joseph, Missouri.
She was loved by many and will be missed by all.