Funeral services for Rita Faye Hartsell of Butler, Missouri will be 2 p.m. Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at the Schowengerdt Funeral Chapel (660-679-6555) in Butler with Roger McKee officiating. Visitation 1 - 2 p.m. prior to services on Tuesday, October 11. Burial, Oak Hill Cemetery, Butler. Contributions, Heartland Hospice.
Rita Faye Hartsell, age 56 of Butler, Missouri died Saturday, October 8, 2011 at Bates County Memorial Hospital in Butler. She was born December 24, 1954 to Wilma Luckan McGuire in Butler.
Rita is survived by a son, Justin Hartsell and wife Leah of Archie, Missouri; two daughters, Stacy Griffin and husband Justin and Kelli Gillis and husband Travis both of Butler, Missouri; her mother, Wilma McGuire of Butler, Missouri; one brother, Richard McGuire of Pittsburg, Kansas; two sisters, Kathy Lewis and husband Richard and Carroll Walley and husband David both of Amsterdam, Missouri and Vickie Callahan of Butler, Missouri; and six grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Cheryl McGuire and Theresa Fahnestock.
