Obituary - Hazelle Ruth Lafarge

Funeral services for Hazel R. LaFarge will be 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 18, 2014 at Schowengerdt Funeral Chapel (660-679-6555) in Butler, Missouri with Pastor Ron Dunlap officiating. Visitation will be prior to services from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. at Schowengerdt Chapel. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Butler, Missouri. Contributions to Happy Hill Church of God and Heartland Hospice.




Hazelle Ruth Lafarge, age 90 of Butler, Missouri died Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at her home in Butler.  The second of five children, she was born July 10, 1923 to Arthur Lee and Edna Elisabeth Main Spratt in rural Sprague, Missouri.

Hazelle is survived by a son, Rupert Lealan LaFarge and wife Connie of Jefferson City, Missouri; a daughter, Trevalyn LaFarge Schowengerdt and husband Gary of rural Butler, Missouri; 6 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren-Douglas Bryan LaFarge and wife Lesa and their two
children Nikita Kailyn and Ptolemy Seth, Philip Matthew LaFarge and wife Danielle and their two children Chelsea Nicole and Kyle Hayden, Chad Alan LaFarge and wife Erin and their four children Emily Ruth,Elizabeth Kay and twin boys Joel Christian and Micah James, Jesse Lee
Schowengerdt and wife Melody and their daughter Kensley Lynn, Lindsey Marie Rowden and husband Ryan and their three children Ryan Cooper, Sadie Marie and Nora Jean and Ashley Lynn Freeman and husband Ryan.

She is also survived by a brother, Walter Lee "Jack" Spratt of Joplin, Missouri; a sister, Marjorie Louise Brown of Nevada, Missouri; a sister-in-law, Betty Spratt of Nevada, Missouri; a sister-in-law/aunt, Edith LaFarge of Ft. Scott, Kansas; one nephew, six nieces, other relatives and a host of friends. She was prededed in death by a six-week old sister Estella Marie; her father Lee in 1967 and mother Edna in 2002; a brother Richard in 1957; a grandson Bryan Scot Schowengerdt in 1987; and her husband of 65 years Rupert Franklin LaFarge in 2005.