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The Sedalia Democrat

From the Saturday, February 7, 2004 issue:

Wayne T. Roach, 1929-2004, Pilot Grove

Wayne Theodore Roach, 74, of Pilot Grove, died Friday, Feb. 6, 2004, at the Boone Health Center in Columbia.

He was born Sept. 7, 1929, in Savannah, Mo., a son of Vernon Floyd and Eva June Wallace Roach.

On Jan. 20, 1951, he was married to Mary Louise Gerling, who survives of the home.

He graduated from high school in Boonville in 1947. He was a member of the National Guard from 1947 to 1956. He owned and operated Roach's Standard Station in Pilot Grove from April 1951 to 1997. He was a member of St Joseph Catholic Church in Pilot Grove, the Clear Creek Knights of Columbus and the Pilot Grove Lion's Club. He served on the Pilot Grove fire department for 20 years. He was instrumental in charting the Pilot Grove swimming pool. He served on the Pilot Grove City Council.

Surviving are one son, Vernon Roach, of Overland Park, Kan.; two daughters, Kathleen Stewart, of Overland Park, Kan., and Susan Nelson, of Kansas City; one sister, Maxine Drechsel, of Boonville; and five grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the St Joseph Catholic Church in Pilot Grove, with Father Tom Seifner and Father Richard Colbert officiating. Pallbearers will be David Kraus, Virgil Kraus, Joe Ed Stoecklein, Robert L. Stoecklein, Donald R. Kempf and Jerry Dillner. Honorary pallbearers will be Clem Twenter, Wilbur Quinlan, Ralph Felten, Herbert Gerke, David Horst, Darrell Spaedy, Dennis Knipp and Jerry Drechsel.

Burial will be in the St Joseph Cemetery in Pilot Grove. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Meisenheimer Funeral Home in Pilot Grove. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the St Joseph Catholic Church, with a prayer service to begin at 6.

The family suggests memorial contributions to St Joseph Catholic Church.

Wayne married Gerling, Mary Louise on 20 Jan 1951 in St Joseph Catholic Church, Pilot Grove, Cooper, Missouri, USA. Mary (daughter of Gerling, Henry Herman and Vollrath, Mary Louisa) was born on 23 Mar 1928 in Pilot Grove, Cooper, Missouri, USA; died on 2 Jan 2020 in Missouri, USA; was buried on 6 Jan 2020 in St Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery, Pilot Grove, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nelson, N.N.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Stewart, N.N.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]