Funeral for Geneva C. DeCamp of Chesterfield, Mo., will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Grant Gillard will officiate. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery at Jackson, Mo.
Friends may call at the chapel after 10 a.m. Saturday.
DeCamp, 80, died Monday, Jan. 15, 2001, at Delmar Gardens of Chesterfield.
She was born April 7, 1920, in Equality, Ky., daughter of Orlando and Susan Allen Cox. She and Wayne V. DeCamp were married Jan. 5, 1947, in Hammond, Ind. He died June 5, 1996.
DeCamp was a graduate of Hartford High School in Hartford, Ky. She lived in Cape Girardeau and Jackson from 1977-96. She was a former deacon at the Presbyterian at Bonhomme Church in Chesterfield. DeCamp was a member of First Presbyterian Church at Jackson and Order of Eastern Star.
Survivors include a son, Wayne DeCamp of East Jordan, Mich.; a daughter, Lynn Laux of Ballwin, Mo.; and four grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two sisters.
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