Tri County Burial Club

Kenneth died at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2019, at Mercy Hospital, Joplin, and Marilyn died at 1:18 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, 2019, at Freeman West Hospital, Joplin. Kenneth was born Dec. 29, 1935, in Walnut to Leonard and Sue (Smith) Jacquinot. He grew up in Walnut and later moved to Kansas City, Missouri, to pursue his electrical apprenticeship certificate. He completed his electrical apprenticeship in 1959 and worked for Plaza Electric. He enjoyed hanging the Christmas lights on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City during his residence there. He went to work for Appleton Electric and Cummins Diesel as a salesman. Later he moved the family to Coffeyville to work as a salesman for Tri-State Electric. In 1971 he started Century Electric in Parsons and ran the business during the 1970s. He enjoyed running different businesses while continuing to work as an electrician. He purchased the Zesto restaurant in Parsons in June 1974 and later converted it to a barbecue restaurant. He worked as an insurance and real estate agent during the 1980s and then retired from the Parsons State Hospital and Training Center in the late 1980s. Marilyn was born April 3, 1934, in Grand Island, Nebraska, to Harold and Ernestine (Brown) Raymond. The Raymond family moved to Parsons when Marilyn was 4 years old to start Raymond’s Grocery. At the age of 14 she joined the Mount St. Mary’s convent and later received her education at St. Mary of the Plains College, Dodge City. She decided that she loved teaching a...

DILORETO) ROSSI WARREN ? Mary D. (DiLoreto) Rossi, 79, passed away peacefully Wednesday morning, April 17, 2019, after a courageous nine-and-a-half-year battle with cancer. ?Mary will always be remembered and loved for the way she has touched all our lives. She was a woman of great strength, courage and fortitude, always dressing with the most impeccable styles and had a smile that could brighten any room.? Mary was born March 16, 1940, in Warren, the daughter of the late Alfred and Clorinda (Corradi) DiLoreto, and was a lifelong area resident. Mary was a 1958 graduate of Warren St. Mary?s High School, where she was a cheerleader and the 1957 Football Homecoming Queen. Also, throughout attending high school, Mary volunteered as a candy striper at Trumbull Memorial Hospital. She then continued her education at Kent State University, where she was a member Delta Zeta Sorority earning her Bachelor?s Degree in Deaf and Elementary Education in 1961. Besides being a proud homemaker and a true matriarch for her family, Mary touched and influenced many children?s lives over her 31 years as an educator. She began her career teaching deaf students at Frances Willard Elementary School in Warren, followed by her second year in Swissville, Pa., at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf while her husband attended mortuary school. Upon his graduation they returned to Warren, where she taught deaf students for another nine years at the Frances Willard Elementary School and the Trumbull County Hearing Society. Following the 10 years, the deaf classes moved into the Champion School System, at which time Mary remained in the Warren City School System. Mary retired in 1990 from various Elementary Schools where she taught her final 20 years with her final assignment at Secrest Elementary School. Mary was honored in the 1969 edition of Who?s Who of Outstanding Woman in America for recognition of her outstanding accomplishments and service to her community and profession. Mary was a member of the North ...