JAMES SHOEMAKER

PERKINS, Mo. -- Funeral for James T. Shoemaker of Perkins will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee, Mo. The Revs. Phil Thompson and Rick Crump will officiate. Burial will be in Williams Cemetery, with military graveside rites.

Friends may call at the chapel after 4 p.m. today.

Shoemaker, 76, died Tuesday, July 18, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

He was born April 5, 1924, at Perkins, son of James Thomas and Clara Phillips Shoemaker. He and Verba Lee Kennedy were married July 10, 1948, in Pocahontas, Ark.

Shoemaker retired as a truck driver for SEMO Stone Co. He was a minister at and a member of Mesler Baptist Church at Mesler, Mo.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Survivors include his wife; four sons, Steve Shoemaker of Oran, Mo., Kenneth Shoemaker of Allenville, Mo., Rocky and David Shoemaker of Perkins; three daughters, Brenda Sebastian and Darlene Thompson of Allenville, and Carla Shoemaker of Chaffee.

Also surviving are two brothers, Bill Shoemaker of De Soto, Mo., Tommy Shoemaker of Oran; five sisters, Dorothy Halter of Perkins, Martha King of Oklahoma City, Okla., Rose Anders of St. Louis, Betty West of Abington, Ill., Marie Merrick of Granville, Ohio; 20 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; and five great-stepgrandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two grandsons.