MEDFORD WALTER ROUSAN
MEDFORD WALTER ROUSAN OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, WAS BORN MAY 3, 1908, IN FLETCHER, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE WILFORD AND JANE (OHAVER) ROUSAN. MEDFORD DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT POTOSI MANOR ON AUGUST 12, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF NINETY-ONE YEARS, THREE MONTHS AND NINE DAYS.
MEDFORD WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO GLADYS ARMSTRONG ON JANUARY 3, 1932, IN POTOSI, MISSOURI, AND TO THIS UNION TWO DAUGHTERS WERE BORN.
MEDFORD IS SURVIVED BY TWO DAUGHTERS, SHIRLEY PROVINCE AND HUSBAND WALTER OF IRONDALE, JEAN HUMES AND HUSBAND MANFORD OF HILLSBORO, FOUR GRANDCHILDREN, SEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS AND WIFE HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY SEVEN BROTHERS, LESTER, ARLES, JOSEPH, TOM, JOHN AND HOMER, ONE SISTER, LAVADA.
MEDFORD HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR PEOPLE AND ENJOYED SPENDING TIME WITH THEM ALL. MEDFORD WORKED HARD ON THE FARM AND WAS VERY PROUD OF HIS WORK. MEDFORD LOVED TO SPEND TIME HUNTING IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS.
VISITATION WAS HELD FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1999, FROM 2:30 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1999, AT 2:00 P.M. AT THE MOORE CHAPEL WITH REVEREND GUY CONWAY OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN HOPEWELL CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, WALTER PROVINCE, BUD ROUSAN, ROBBIE PROVINCE, JIM MCCLELLAND, DANNY SAPPINGTON AND JOHN CARTER.