GRAVESIDE SERVICES
Appleton City Cemetery
Appleton City, Missouri
Monday, November 13, 2006
11:00 a.m.
MINISTER
Harvey Beach
VISITATION
Hill & Son Funeral Home
Appleton City, Missouri
Monday, November 13, 2006
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
INTERMENT
Appleton City Cemetery
Appleton City, Missouri
MEMORIAL
Missouri School for the Deaf
505 E. 5th St., Fulton, Missouri 65251
Mildred B. Heinson Reid was born February 3, 1923 in Wyandotte County, Kansas to Floyd C. Heinson and Anna M. Herold Heinson, the 8th of 13 children and died November 8, 2006 in Lowry City, Missouri.
In 1934 at age 11, she met her best friend and the love of her life, Earl C. Reid. They married January 22, 1943. To this union two daughters were born.
Mildred started working in a mattress factory at age 11, worked for North American during the war, and went on to be a coat and suit cutter for Louis Walter & Company in Kansas City, Missouri, retiring in 1968. She was the only woman in the cutters union.
Mother was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 54 yrs, Earl, four of her six brothers, Willie, Bill, Irvin and George Heinson; five of her six sisters, Ruby Taylor, Nettie Craft, Elsie Morris, Anne Williams and Irene Cook Strain.
She is survived by her daughters Erlene Nall and husband Warren of the home, Malinda Lysinger and husband Bill; her sister Betty Stinson and husband Archie, of Overland Park, Kansas; two brothers, Floyd Heinson and wife Phillis of Kansas City, Kansas and Leo Heinson and wife Betty of McAllen, Texas; 11 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, four great-great-grandchildren, many other loving relatives, nieces nephews and friends.