JASPER DOVERS JR.

DEXTER -- Jasper Dovers Jr. died Friday, Feb. 26, 1999, at the Sikeston Health Care Center near Morehouse. He was 93.

He was born in Matthews Jan. 9, 1906, son of the late Jasper Sr. and Minnie Goins Dovers. In 1940 he married to Florence Woods. She died in 1966. On Jan. 12, 1974, he married Hettie Martin at East Prairie. She died March 2, 1992.

He had lived most of his life in Morehouse and was a retired maintenance man for Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was a member of the Church of Christ in Matthews.

Survivors are a son, Jeffery Dovers of Sikeston; six daughters, Deloris Smith, Francis Harrison and Joan Wood, all of Sikeston, Margaret Ann Miller of Joplin, Esther Gardner of Phoenix, Ariz., and Ruth Sifford of Carlsville, Ill.; a stepdaughter, Barbara Nimmo of Sikeston; 21 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and several great-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother and sister.

Friends may call at the Watkins & Sons Funeral Home in Dexter from 5 to 8 p.m. today.

Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Watkins & Sons Chapel, with the Rev. Bob Burnes officiating.

Interment will be in Essex Cemetery in Essex.