Winifred Rose NELSON SORRELL

Winifred
Sep 13, 1938
Feb 1, 2018

Roy
Mar 29, 1933
Apr 8, 2019

Winifred Rose Sorrell, 79 of Cabool, MO joined her heavenly family on Feb. 1, 2018 at the Kabul Nursing Home. She was born on Sept. 13, 1938 in Caldwell, ID the daughter of Edward and Mary (Shaw) Nelson. She graduated from Adrian, OR high school in 1956 and then attended college in Wessington Springs, SD; from there she moved to Seattle, WA and worked until she returned home to the Ridgeview, ID area and lived next to her parents on their ranch.
On March 25, 1972 she married Roy Junior Sorrell; they resided in Wilder, ID and the Arena Valley area until moving to a farm south of Cabool, MO in 1979. The following year their daughter, Janeen was born. In 1991 they moved off the farm to the city limits of Cabool; there she raised her family and accumulated many friends and neighbors.
Winnie is united in heaven with her parents; brothers, Clarence, Bill, Allen and wife, Helen and Ted and wife, Ila; sisters, Yvonne and husband, Harold Hill and Mary Anna and husband, Warren Langer; sisters-in-law, Donna Nelson and Mary and husband, Cleo Stuart; father and mother-in-law, Roy and Mary Alice Sorrell; brothers-in-law, Kenneth Sorrell and Bob Tyson. She is survived by her husband, Roy Jr.; daughter, Janeen and husband, Clayton Steelman; step-children, Cindy, Angie and Rob; brothers, Joe, Edgar and wife, Mary and Jim and wife, Connie; brothers-in-law, Bill and wife, Elizabeth, Dennis and wife, LaNeva; sisters-in-law, Lorena and Mary Ellen Nelson, Rita Sorrell, Faye Tyson and Sue and husband, Tom Williams; as well as a host of step grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends. She was a loving and caring person to all who crossed her path.

Roy “Junior” Sorrell, 86 of Cabool, MO passed from this life on April 8, 2019 at the Cox South Medical Center in Springfield, MO. He was born on March 29, 1933 at the Hebron Area of Douglas County, MO the son of Roy Edward and Mary “Alice” (Dennis) Sorrell.
He completed only 8 grades of school before quitting to go to work and to help his father on the farm. At the age of 16 he moved to the Boise Valley Area of Idaho and worked at numerous hard labor jobs, eventually retiring from the Golden Gate Highway District after 19 years. He moved back to a farm just south of Cabool in 1979 and then into town in 1991.
Roy had four children, Cynthia Marleen with Glenda Farrell, Angela Carlene and Robert Jay with Velma Ledbetter and Janeen Rose with Winifred Nelson; he loved them all very much.
Roy was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Winifred and her parents, Edward and Mary Nelson; a brother, Kenneth Sorrell; a sister, Mary Stuart; brothers-in-law, Bob Brown, Cleo Stuart, Bob Tyson, Ed Strickfadden, Clarence Nelson, Bill Nelson and wife, Mary Ellen, Allen Nelson and wife, Helen, Ted Nelson and wife, Ila, Harold Hill and wife, Yvonne, Warren Langer and wife, Mary Anna; sisters-in-law, Doreen Sorrell, LaNeva Sorrell and Donna Nelson and a son-in-law, Ron Story. He is survived by daughters, Cynthia Lake and husband, Larry and Angela Lafata and husband, Steve; son, Robert Jay Sorrell; daughter, Janeen Steelman and husband, Clayton; brothers, William Sorrell and wife, Elizabeth and Dennis Sorrell; sisters, Faye Tyson and Linda Sue Williams and husband, Tom; brothers-in-law, Joe Nelson, Edgar Nelson and wife, Mary, Jim Nelson and wife, Connie; sisters-in-law, Rita Sorrell and Lorena Nelson as well as a host of grandchildren, nieces, nephews and a loving friend, Elfie Loper. His family was his life.
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Contributed on 8/10/19 by mjrwag
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