Visitation 5 - 6:30 p.m. Thursday, November 8 at the Schowengerdt Chapel. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Butler. Contributions to the Ohio St. United Methodist Church, Butler. Online condolences www.schowengerdtchapel.com.
William Ralph Jennings, age 98 of Butler, Missouri died Sunday, November 4, 2018 at Bates County Memorial Hospital in Butler. He was born April 15, 1920 to Edgar Thurston and Martha Mable Murphy Jennings in Spruce, Missouri.
Ralph is survived by his wife of 71 years, Evelyn Jennings of Butler, Missouri; a daughter, Shirley Heckadon and husband Don of Butler, Missouri; two granddaughters, Kimberly Algiere and husband Lester and Michelle Triebel and fiance` Scott McMurphy all of Butler, Missouri; eight grandchildren, Geoffrey Algiere, Makenzie Algiere, Brandon Algiere, Meghan Algiere, Haylee Smith and husband Zeph, Bryce Triebel, Dylan Triebel and Rylea McMurphy and a great-great-grandson, Brayden Smith. He was preceded in death by his parents; an infant brother; four other brothers, Ernest, John, Wilbur and Homer; and three sisters, Hazel Hunt, Esther Harbert and Frances May Williams.
