Mrs. Dorothy Caroline Mustain, 72, a thirty-five year resident of Powell, Missouri, departed this life on Thursday morning, January 30, 2020, after a courageous twenty-seven month battle with cancer.
Dorothy entered this life on October 7, 1947, in Larned, Kansas, one of seven children born to the late Woodrow Wilson and Marcella Mae (Welsch) Wampler. At the age of sixteen she moved with her family to Granby, Missouri. She resided several years in the Granby and Neosho area.
On November 9, 1989, she was united in marriage to William Junior Mustain and together they have shared the last thirty years. Dorothy was a seamstress throughout her life. She worked at the Granby Garment Factory prior to her twenty-eight year career with La-Z-Boy in Neosho. She also assisted her husband in the operation of Mustain Camp Ground in Powell. She enjoyed sewing, softball, bowling and being outdoors hunting and fishing. She was a member of Living Word Mission Church in Simco, Missouri.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and a sister, Rosemary Bettes.
Dorothy is survived by her husband, Junior Mustain of the home; six children, Tom Ward and wife, Sabrina, of Granby, Karen Connell and husband, Bruce, of Neosho, Frank Ward and wife, Lori, of Neosho, Rebecca Mustain of Joplin, Lisa Mustain and Rick Ballard of Duenweg, Missouri and Tammie Hansen and husband, Curtis, of Neosho; sixteen grandchildren; twenty-four great grandchildren; two brothers, Woodrow “Woody” Wampler of Dewey, Arizona and Eddie Wampler of Mesa, Arizona; three sisters, Sonia Sittingdown of Bonner Springs, Kansas, Ella Cook of Valparaiso, Indiana and Sharon Morones of Mesa, Arizona; several nieces and nephews; as well as a host of other family and friends.
Funeral services are 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 12, 2020 in the Anderson Chapel of the Ozark Funeral Homes with Bro. Billy Joe Gentry officiating. Burial will follow in the Union Cemetery. Those honoring her life by serving as pallbearers are Tommy Ward, Bryce Connell, Bryan Connell, Samuel Ward, Randy Mustain and Andrew Mustain with Dallas Botelho, D-Andrae Botelho and Randy Armstrong serving as honorary pallbearers. The family will receive friends on Tuesday evening from 5-7:00 p.m. in the funeral home chapel. Memorials are being directed to Living Word Mission Church c/o the funeral home. On-line condolences may be sent to the family through our website www.ozarkfuneralhome.com. Arrangements are under the personal care and direction of the Ozark Funeral Home in Anderson, Missouri.
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