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Submitted: 5/30/16 • Approved: 6/14/16 • Last Updated: 4/15/18 • R792176-G0-S3
24 Feb 1964 Hayti, Pemiscot, MO
13 Oct 1991 Steele, Pemiscot, MO
Willard Earl Rinks, 27, of Cooter, died Oct. 13, 1991 at Steele. Born Feb. 24, 1964 in Hayti, he was the son of Robert Rinks of Caruthersville and Jean Busby of Cooter. He was a farm laborer.
He is survived by his father and stepmother, Robert and Clara Rinks of Caruthersville; His mother and stepfather, Jean and Thomas Busby of Cooter; A daughter, Alisha Rinks of Alamo, Tenn.; A grandmother, Lois Tucker of Bells, Tenn.; Four brothers, Eugene, Jimmy Dale and Jacky Rinks, all of Cooter, Billy Ray Rinks of Marion, Ill.; Two sisters, Dolores Rinks Boggon of Cooter and Sheila Kay McCaig of Steele; Three half brothers, Tommy Busby Jr. of Cooter, Billy Wayne Rinks of Mounds, Ill., and Donald Ray Hollis of St. Louis; A half sister, Sarah Jean Busby of Cooter; Three stepbrothers, Roy Greer of St. Louis and David Greer and James Audie Greer, both of Pascola; And four stepsisters, Jane Marshall of Ripley, Tenn., Barbara and Rita Huff, both of Cooter, and Marie Gordin of Alamo.
Services were Oct. 15 at 2 p.m. at Bradshaw German-Aumon Funeral Home chapel in Steele, the Rev. Wayne McLean officiating, with burial in Mt. Zion Cemetery.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Mo. - 1991
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