PRECIOUS RITTER

LAMAR- Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Daniel Funeral Home, for Precious Sarah Ritter, 58, Lamar, who died Saturday, June 6, 2020, at Mercy Hospital in Joplin.

Condolences may be shared at www.dfhlamar.com.

Survivors include three sons, Brian Ruth, Deepwater, Carl Ruth and wife Amy, Golden City and Christopher Ruth, Lamar; five daughters, Patricia Miller and husband Mark, Ionia, Mich., Victoria Lynn and Billy Elder, Golden City, Kathleen Conaway and husband Shae, Lamar, Christina Ruth, Lamar and Tamera Barnes and husband T.J., Pittsburg, Kan.; three brothers, Homer Sparks, Lamar, Donald Sparks, Rusk, Texas and Hiram Sparks and wife Peggy, Kansas City, Mo.; one sister, Patricia Stump, Rusk, Texas and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren that loved her dearly.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her partner, Warren Grove and a sister, Kathy Haynes.

Mrs. Ritter was born August 25, 1961, in El Dorado Springs, to Hiram E. Sparks and Betty Lou (Howard) Sparks. She attended El Dorado Springs High School. She worked as a LPN and enjoyed bowling, color by number, sewing, doing plastic canvas, singing, dancing and loved Chex Mix.