Mary Recker

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Mary L. Recker, 85, of Sikeston died Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Feb. 4, 1917, at Point Pleasant, Mo., daughter of Archie Theodore and Mattie Blanche Williams Pikey. She and Hubert A. "Hootie" Recker were married in March 1941. He died April 13, 1981.

Recker attended Southeast Missouri State University. She had been a teacher's assistant at Marston Schools in Marston, Mo., and was postmaster at Marston during World War II.

She was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. She was a foster grandparent many years in the kindergarten class at Sikeston Public Schools.

Survivors include a son, Ted Recker of Sikeston; a daughter, Mattie Trum of Sikeston; six grandchildren; five stepgrandchildren; and two great-stepgrandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, a brother, and a sister.

Friends may call at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel from 5 to 8 p.m. today.

The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the chapel. The Rev. Stephen Schneider will officiate. Burial will be in Mounds Park Cemetery at Lilbourn, Mo.