Sept. 17, 1942-Jan. 2, 2018
Memorial service: 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, Bland-Brumback Funeral Home, Stockton.
Mrs. Lovvorn, 75, Stockton, a retired school teacher, died Tuesday, Jan. 2, at her home. She was born in Kansas City, Jackson County, to Dean P. Clasbey and Doris M. Pierce Clasbey.
She grew up and spent many years in the Kansas City and Lee’s Summit areas. She was saved at the age of 16, and lived the next 59 years faithfully reading God’s word. She attended high school at Lee’s Summit, and after graduation, attended college at Central Missouri State in Warrensburg where she received her bachelor of science degree in education in 1963.
In May 1963, she married James Glenn Mitchener, and a daughter, Tina Rene’ Mitchener, was born. She later went back to college and attended night classes at CMSU in Warrensburg, and in August 1976, she received her master’s degree in education in learning disabilities. She divorced her husband James and later met and married Cleveland O. Lovvorn in September 1977.
In 1995, she retired from teaching. After her husband passed away in 2015, she moved to Stockton to live with her daughter.
Survivors include her daughter, Tina R. Mitchener of Stockton; a step-daughter, DeLynn Lovvorn Green Kincade and husband Houston of Shepherdsville, Kentucky; grandchildren, Haylie and Alan Reistad and Mitchell A. Briscoe; step-grandchildren, Rebecca Green Rose, Scott Green and Nathan Lovvorn; and great-grandchildren, McKinze, Jude and Jack Briscoe; a step great-grandchild, Kingston Lovvorn; two sisters-in-law, Betty Clasbey of Lee’s Summit and Barbara Jean Lovvorn Green of Mableton, Georgia; nieces and nephews; and other family and friends.
She was preceded in death by her father and mother, Dean and Doris Clasbey; her ex-husband James G. Mitchener; husband, Cleveland O. Lovvorn; a brother, Dean P. Clasbey Jr.; a sister, Zora I. Clasbey; and step-son. Robert Lovvorn.
Online condolences can be made at www.brumbackfuneralhome.com.
