Dr. Michael Bader

DEXTER, Mo.--Dr. Michael John Bader, 50, of Dexter died Monday, June 17, 2002, at Shands at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

He was born Jan. 26, 1952, son of Louis C. and Rita Litzler Bader. He and Linda Lou Rausch were married April 30, 1988.

Bader was a member of Our Divine Savior Catholic Church. He was an Extension Engineer with the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at the University of Georgia Rural Development Center in Tifton, Georgia.

Survivors include his wife; his mother, Rita Litzler Bader of Dexter; two brothers, Louis C. "Butch" Bader Jr. of Scott City, Mo. and Kenny J. Bader of Colombia, Mo.; and four sisters, Catherine Bockhold of Dexter, Shearon Harris of Bernie, Mo., Jovita Klott of Hermann, Mo. and Roberta Cecil of Overland Park, Kan.

Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Chalk Bluff Cemetery in Dexter. Father John Sheley will officiate.