PHYLLIS NORA CLYMAN

NEVADA, Mo.- Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Dudenville Cemetery, south of Golden City, for Phyllis Nora Clyman, 94, who died May 4, 2020, in Nevada, Mo., after a brief illness. The Rev. Kevin Daughtery will officiate.

Arrangements are under the direction of Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada.

Friends may call now and until the hour of service at the funeral home.

Memorials are suggested to the First Baptist Church in Nevada or the American Diabetes Association.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com.

Survivors include a son, David Clyman and wife Glenda, Nevada, Mo.; a daughter, Marilyn Stockdale, Sheldon; two grandsons, Jeremy Clyman and wife Jennifer, Grain Valley and Jason Stockdale and wife Whittney, Oronogo; one granddaughter, Julie Morgan, Pella, Iowa; five great-grandchildren, Ella and Colton Clyman, Paige and Tyler Morgan and Emma Stockdale, as well as many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 53, who died in 2000; a son-in-law, John Stockdale; sisters-in-law, Audrey Yates and Lorene Wheat and a sister, Joyce Denning and a brother-in-law, George Denning, both of England.

Mrs. Clyman was born June 20, 1925, in Warminster, England, to Charles and Lily Morement. She met her future husband, Oscar F. Clyman, while he was serving as a GI in the U.S. Army during World War II, in her hometown of Warminster, England. He was discharged from the service on January 6, 1946. He returned to Warminster, England to marry Phyllis on Jan. 6, 1947. Their first child, a son, was born a year later on January 6, 1948, followed by a daughter.

They honeymooned at Niagara Falls and then traveled to their farm southwest of Golden City, where they engaged in a crop and livestock operation for 45 years. This farm was later designated a Missouri Century Farm. In addition to being a farm wife, Mrs. Clyman enjoyed playing piano for the Dudenville Methodist Church, gardening, sewing, knitting, cooking, taking care of numerous pets, always sending encouraging cards and letters to family and friends and maintaining a loving home.

She and her husband moved to Nevada, Mo. in 1992 and became members of the Nevada First Baptist Church.