LAWRENCE HADLEY CORDER
LAWRENCE CORDER OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, WAS BORN AUGUST 23, 1921, IN POTOSI, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE CHARLES GRANT AND ZOE LOUISE (MIDGETT) CORDER. LAWRENCE DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN ST. LOUIS, ON MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SEVENTY-SEVEN YEARS, FOUR MONTHS AND TWELVE DAYS.
LAWRENCE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JOANNE HOUK ON MARCH 2, 1968, IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, AND TO THIS UNION ONE SON WAS BORN.
LAWRENCE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, JOANNE CORDER OF ST. LOUIS, ONE SON, BRANT LAWRENCE CORDER OF ST. LOUIS, THREE SISTERS, DELLA ADAMS OF POTOSI, EDNA ROWE OF POTOSI, ALTA GARNER AND HUSBAND NORMAN OF CARLINVILLE, ILLINOIS AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY FIVE BROTHERS, RALPH, RAYMOND, ROLLIN, CHARLES AND HARRY CORDER, AND ONE SISTER JESSIE CORDER.
LAWRENCE WAS A VETERAN OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY WHERE HE SERVED IN NORTHERN FRANCE AND THROUGHOUT EUROPE, AND WAS AWARDED A PURPLE HEART AND FIVE BRONZE STARS. DURING HIS RETIREMENT YEARS HE SERVED AS A SCHOOL CROSSING GUARD AND WAS A PARK RANGER IN OVERLAND, MISSOURI. LAWRENCE HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR THE GIFTS OF MOTHER NATURE AND GAVE BACK TO HER BEAUTY WITH HIS LOVE OF FLOWER GARDENING. HE ENJOYED RELAXING WATCHING WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND BEING ABREAST OF LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EVENTS BY WATCHING CNN. WITH HIS KNOWLEDGE OF INTERNATIONAL EVENTS HE ENJOYED SOLVING WORLDLY PROBLEMS WITH HIS FRIENDS AT CHARLIE'S RESTAURANT.
VISITATION WAS HELD WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1999, FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1999, AT 2:00 P.M. WITH ELDER LEONARD COMPTON AND REVEREND KEVIN FITZGERALD OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN CALEDONIA METHODIST CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME , POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, STAN HOUK, GARY MORRISON, RON ADAMS, GARY ADAMS, JUSTIN ADAMS AND KEVIN ADAMS.