Marshall A. Mires, 85, son of Wilfred Mires and Bertha Martha Julia Wendt "Birdie" Mires, was born Dec. 8, 1920, at the Lone Star farm by Dog's Bluff west of Houston. He died March 10, 2006, at Lester E. Cox Medical Center South in Springfield.
He lived on the farm with his parents until he left home to attend college. He attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., and graduated in 1946 with a bachelor's degree in agriculture.
After graduation, he returned to Houston, where he met and married Ruby E. Smyer March 1, 1947.
Early in their marriage, he was the Oregon County extension agent, a veterans on the farm instructor and dairy farmer, milking 40 Jersey cows by hand.
He managed the Missouri Poultry Experiment Station at Mountain Grove.
He spent the rest of his working years with Chevron Corp.'s agricultural division and retired in St. Louis as district manager for Illinois, Indiana and Missouri in 1979.
Throughout his life, he continued to work and play at the Lone Star farm.
He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Houston, where he was a board member. He was active in St. Louis as a Mason and Shriner, working to provide hospitalization and medical care to sick children.
Surviving are his wife of 59 years of the home in Houston; four children, Marsha Vannoy Powell of Lee's Summit, Jane Neely of Blue Springs, George Mires of Springfield and John Mires of St. Charles; 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Services were March 15 at the United Methodist Church in Houston with the Rev. Wesley Wallace and the Rev. Tom Tomlinson officiating. Burial was in the Pine Lawn Cemetery.
obit courtesy of Houston Herald online, Houston MO
He lived on the farm with his parents until he left home to attend college. He attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., and graduated in 1946 with a bachelor's degree in agriculture.
After graduation, he returned to Houston, where he met and married Ruby E. Smyer March 1, 1947.
Early in their marriage, he was the Oregon County extension agent, a veterans on the farm instructor and dairy farmer, milking 40 Jersey cows by hand.
He managed the Missouri Poultry Experiment Station at Mountain Grove.
He spent the rest of his working years with Chevron Corp.'s agricultural division and retired in St. Louis as district manager for Illinois, Indiana and Missouri in 1979.
Throughout his life, he continued to work and play at the Lone Star farm.
He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Houston, where he was a board member. He was active in St. Louis as a Mason and Shriner, working to provide hospitalization and medical care to sick children.
Surviving are his wife of 59 years of the home in Houston; four children, Marsha Vannoy Powell of Lee's Summit, Jane Neely of Blue Springs, George Mires of Springfield and John Mires of St. Charles; 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Services were March 15 at the United Methodist Church in Houston with the Rev. Wesley Wallace and the Rev. Tom Tomlinson officiating. Burial was in the Pine Lawn Cemetery.
obit courtesy of Houston Herald online, Houston MO
Marshall A. Mires, 85, son of Wilfred Mires and Bertha Martha Julia Wendt "Birdie" Mires, was born Dec. 8, 1920, at the Lone Star farm by Dog's Bluff west of Houston. He died March 10, 2006, at Lester E. Cox Medical Center South in Springfield.
He lived on the farm with his parents until he left home to attend college. He attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., and graduated in 1946 with a bachelor's degree in agriculture.
After graduation, he returned to Houston, where he met and married Ruby E. Smyer March 1, 1947.
Early in their marriage, he was the Oregon County extension agent, a veterans on the farm instructor and dairy farmer, milking 40 Jersey cows by hand.
He managed the Missouri Poultry Experiment Station at Mountain Grove.
He spent the rest of his working years with Chevron Corp.'s agricultural division and retired in St. Louis as district manager for Illinois, Indiana and Missouri in 1979.
Throughout his life, he continued to work and play at the Lone Star farm.
He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Houston, where he was a board member. He was active in St. Louis as a Mason and Shriner, working to provide hospitalization and medical care to sick children.
Surviving are his wife of 59 years of the home in Houston; four children, Marsha Vannoy Powell of Lee's Summit, Jane Neely of Blue Springs, George Mires of Springfield and John Mires of St. Charles; 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Services were March 15 at the United Methodist Church in Houston with the Rev. Wesley Wallace and the Rev. Tom Tomlinson officiating. Burial was in the Pine Lawn Cemetery.
obit courtesy of Houston Herald online, Houston MO
He lived on the farm with his parents until he left home to attend college. He attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., and graduated in 1946 with a bachelor's degree in agriculture.
After graduation, he returned to Houston, where he met and married Ruby E. Smyer March 1, 1947.
Early in their marriage, he was the Oregon County extension agent, a veterans on the farm instructor and dairy farmer, milking 40 Jersey cows by hand.
He managed the Missouri Poultry Experiment Station at Mountain Grove.
He spent the rest of his working years with Chevron Corp.'s agricultural division and retired in St. Louis as district manager for Illinois, Indiana and Missouri in 1979.
Throughout his life, he continued to work and play at the Lone Star farm.
He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Houston, where he was a board member. He was active in St. Louis as a Mason and Shriner, working to provide hospitalization and medical care to sick children.
Surviving are his wife of 59 years of the home in Houston; four children, Marsha Vannoy Powell of Lee's Summit, Jane Neely of Blue Springs, George Mires of Springfield and John Mires of St. Charles; 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Services were March 15 at the United Methodist Church in Houston with the Rev. Wesley Wallace and the Rev. Tom Tomlinson officiating. Burial was in the Pine Lawn Cemetery.
obit courtesy of Houston Herald online, Houston MO
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