GEORGE ALLEN SHORT
GEORGE SHORT OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, WAS BORN FEBRUARY 2, 1924, IN MEAD, OKLAHOMA, A SON OF THE LATE JOSEPH AND MAGGIE SHORT. GEORGE DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HIS RESIDENCE ON MARCH 13, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS, ONE MONTH AND ELEVEN DAYS.
GEORGE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO CLEO COMPTON ON OCTOBER 19, 1945, IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, AND TO THIS UNION TWO CHILDREN WERE BORN.
GEORGE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE CLEO E. SHORT OF POTOSI, ONE SON WILLIAM A. SHORT, SR. AND WIFE WANDA OF POTOSI, ONE DAUGHTER, JOYCE JEANNETTE HENDERSON AND HUSBAND HANK OF JEFFERSON CITY, TEN GRANDCHILDREN, FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND THREE STEP GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, ONE SISTER ETHEL CARNELL AND HUSBAND NATE OF AURORA, ONE BROTHER-IN-LAW, GUS COMPTON AND WIFE JOYCE OF ST. LOUIS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE BROTHER, GENE SHORT.
GEORGE WAS A WORLD WAR II VETERAN OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY HAVING SERVED FROM MAY OF 1943 TO MARCH OF 1946. HE WAS A LIFE MEMBER OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY MEMORIAL VFW POST #6996 IN POTOSI AND OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION. GEORGE LOVED THE OUTDOORS AND ITS' MANY BEAUTIES.
VISITATION WAS HELD SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1999 FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1999, AT 1:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON CHAPEL WITH REVEREND STANLEY PAYNE OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN WHITE OAK GROVE CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OG GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, GUS COMPTON, KURT COMPTON, NATHAN HENDERSON, BILL SHORT, JR., ALBERT YOUNT AND CHRIS OWENS