Abbie married SHOBE, Carl Devain on 8 Mar 1916 in Chillicothe, Livingston, Missouri, USA. Carl (son of SHOBE, Jacob and JAYNES, Livona) was born on 3 Jul 1894 in Humphreys, Sullivan County, Missouri, USA; died in Oct 1967 in Galt, Grundy, Missouri, USA; was buried in Sullivan, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: SPARKS, Unknown. Unknown was born about 1922. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Minnie Ruth Tunnell of Lee’s summit, Mo left this world on Feb 23, 2013 at 7AM. She was 94 years old. She had been a patient of Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton, Mo since Feb 19, 2013.

Minnie Ruth Brassfield was born to Carl Shobe and Abbie Brassfield (Shobe) on March 2, 1918 in Humphreys, Mo in the home. She was united in marriage to Earl Tunnell on Feb 22, 1940. They began their married life in Osgood, Mo. They celebrated 59 years of marriage. In those years, they lived in two different states, Missouri and California and traveled to Connecticut, Kentucky, Washington DC and Alaska to name a few.

Minnie Shobe was a lifelong school teacher. She started out in a one room school house in 1937 at the Black Oak School in Osgood, Mo. From there she taught in Chillicothe, then Kansas City Mo. She obtained her teaching degree from Truman State University in 1948. She and her husband moved to Cupertino, CA in 1960 where she taught at Earl E. Warren School in Santa Clara CA from which she retired in 1979.

Minnie was an active member of various Christian Churches, in communities she and her husband lived.

Her and her husband returned to Missouri to live in Branson in 1989. She and her husband were avid musicians. She played the banjo and piano. She also sang in the choir. In the 1990’s Minnie was encouraged to learn to paint. She became an accomplished painter, even teaching other senior citizens to paint. One of her paintings can be found in a Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC as she had won recognitions as a senior artist.

She was proceeded in death by her husband; Earl Tunnell (1987), father; Carl Shobe (1966), mother; Abbie Shobe (1928) and one sister; Rosamay Easterday (2009).

Surviving family members are a two brothers; Ralph Shobe of California, Robert Shobe of Kansas City, Mo, two sisters; Mina Ethyleen Sparks of Lee’s Summitt, Mo and Doris Veeder of Tindall, Mo. Also she leaves behind seeral nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews.

All our hearts are filled with sorrow as we send her to her heavenly home. She will be greatly missed.

Visitation for family and friends will be held at Lansford funeral Home in Lees’ Summit, MO. On Thursday, February 28 at Langsford Funeral Home from 4:00p.m. - 6:00p.m. Grave side services to be held at Campground Cemetery in Osgood, Mo on Friday, February 29 at 1:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to Disabled Veterans Association or St. Joseph’s Indian School www.stjo.org.

Minnie married TUNNELL, Earl on 22 Feb 1940. Earl was born about 1918; died in 1987. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: VEEDER, Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]