Katherine “Katie” Eudora Avery (Payne)

Katherine “Katie” Eudora Avery (Payne), 95, of Ash Grove, passed away peacefully at Ash Grove Healthcare Feb. 2, 2019. She was born Oct. 28, 1923 in Springfield to Percy and Minnie (Mobley) Payne.
Avery graduated from high school in Springfield and went on to attend Draughon’s Business College earning her two year certificate. She retired from secretarial work. She married Wallace Avery in 1943 and to this union they were blessed with two children, Connie and Darrell. She loved to sew, cook, play the piano, go fishing and her horses. She and Wallace raised Fox Trotter horses and often reminisced about those days and how she loved her horses.
Avery is survived by her children, Connie (Wayne) Underwood and Darrell (Alice) Avery; sister Roberta Prosser; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents and her loving husband Wallace.
Graveside services will be held Thursday Feb. 7, 2019, at 10 a.m. at White Chapel Memorial Gardens (in inclement weather this may be changed to a chapel service inside Klingner-Cope Family Funeral Home at White Chapel).