SERVICES for Mrs. McClure will be held at
Hill and Son Funeral Home in Appleton City, Missouri on
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 2:00 p.m.

The MINISTER will be
Pastor Tony Reynolds.

VISITATION will be held
at the funeral home on Monday, May 12, 2014 between
6:00 and 8:00 p.m.

INTERMENT will be in the
Taberville Cemetery,
Taberville, Missouri.

The family suggests MEMORIAL gifts be made to
Heartland Hospice.

Georgie Mae McClure was born near Urich, MO on April 5, 1922 to Neail and Goldie (Allen) Miller. She departed this life at the age of 92 on May 8, 2014 at Appleton City Manor in Appleton City, MO where she had spent the last fourteen months of her life.

Georgie was a very hard working woman all her life. A stroke in 2010 slowed her down, but it did not get her down. She still enjoyed doing her own laundry, pulling weeds from her flower beds and anything else she was capable of doing. A second stroke in January 2013 left her unable to return to her home. She spent two months in the hospital before moving to Appleton City Manor where she spent the rest of her days.

All her life, she had huge gardens and had canned and frozen hundreds of quarts of produce every year. She did most of it on her own, but the kids were not exempt from their most detested task of shelling bushel after bushel of peas! To this day she has children that will NOT plant peas in their own garden.

At one time she had sons that worked for Calhoun Hatchery in Montrose. On Friday night, which was chicken loading night, all the chickens that would not fit on the truck came home with the boys. It was not uncommon to wake up on Saturday morning with over 200 fryers waiting to be dressed. They were usually in the freezer before noon, and of course fried chicken was on the menu for lunch. She is very well known for her delicious fried chicken that became the main menu item for family gatherings no matter how many were there to eat.

Besides the job of raising her family, Georgie worked in the cotton fields of Arizona while residing there with her first husband. Georgie and husband, Pete, owned a restaurant at one time as well as a gas station where she spent many hours. She also worked at other area restaurants as well as working at the Shoe Factory in El Dorado Springs. As Pete ran a hay crew for many summers, she spent countless hours preparing large meals, taking them to the field for the boys on the hay crew.

When life started to slow down for her and her husband, they moved to Taberville where they lived on the banks of the Osage River. Pete was an avid fisherman and Georgie spent many hours helping catch bait for the trotlines. It was also here, where she became very familiar with the hummingbirds. They were so abundant she filled several two liter feeder bottles several times daily. That is when she began her collection of hummingbird items.

In her past time, Georgie liked to make quilts, feed the birds and squirrels and have garage sales as well as attend garage sales. But she probably enjoyed life the most when she was out in the timber looking for morel mushrooms. Even at the age of 89, after her first stroke, she had a very successful mushroom hunt. And boy was she a proud lady that day! She got to make her first trip to Branson in the fall of 2012 and she was up and in the shower at 3 AM, ready to go look for a garage sale before attending some of the shows.

For a few years, she was blessed to have all of her children living very close to her with the farthest one away, being only 20 miles.

One of the most important things she taught her children was sharing. On occasion when the kids were small, she would go to Ben Franklin in Butler and get one half pound of M & M's for the kids. Upon returning home, the kids would sort them by color in their pile. The extras were then returned to Mom so no one had more than the other.

With the amount of children she had to care for, discipline and help from the children was a must. The older kids remember having to wash dishes at such a young age that they had to stack two orange crates together to reach the sink. But they knew when Mom came in from the cotton fields, the dishes better be done. The kids remember sitting on the couch for hours until someone admitted to doing whatever bad thing had been done. Fighting usually called for kissing each other to make up. That was not a popular choice! What would be called child abuse today was just a part of the daily routine back them. The children normally had to go cut their own switch when they had done wrong. It took some of the kids many switchings to figure out those skinny switches they cut themselves hurt much more than the bigger sticks.

At the age of 15 she married John Leslie Dines. To this union seven children were born. He passed away in 1955. She later married Paul Dan "Pete" McClure and to this union five children were born, making her the proud mother of twelve children. Pete preceded her in death on March 9, 2008.

She was also preceded in death by four of her sons: Claude Edward Dines, Donald Lee Dines, Leslie Dean "Jumbo" Dines, and Clyde Emery "Doodle Bug" Dines; daughter-in-law, Marlyn Dines and a stepson, Danny Ray McClure.

Also preceding her in death were her parents; her brothers: Art Allen, Loren "Jack" Miller, and Clifford "Sonny" Miller; sisters: Dessie Dines, Joye Haley and Katherine McClure.

Georgie was also proud to have thirty-four grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren as well as many great-great grandchildren.

She will be sadly missed by her children: A. C. Dines and wife Margaret, Mary Carter and husband Everett, Rita Stewart and husband Danny, Buddy McClure and wife Christeal, Rose Isaacson, Paula Sanchez and fiance' Bob McCann, Martha Garver and husband Lowell and Nancy McClure and companion Ron Howard. She is also survived by stepchildren: Bonnie Newell, Dennis, Randy and Ricky McClure. She was also stepmother to Geraldine, Julia, J. B. and Kenneth Dines. Also left to mourn her passing are several nieces, nephews, other relatives as well as many friends.