ROBERTA BRAXDALE

LAMAR- Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the First Christian Church in Lamar for Roberta Mae Braxdale, 95, Lamar, who died Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. Interment will follow at Memory Gardens.

Visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 10 a.m.

Arrangements are under the direction of Konantz Warden Funeral Home.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Cancer Society.

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

Survivors include her sister, Naomi Ortiz, Bartlesville, Okla.; three daughters, Janet Hughs, Denver, Colo., Regina Johnson, Webb City and Pamela Harrington, Joplin; six grandchildren, Scott Hughes and wife Rachel, Brian Johnson, Tessie Beck and husband Donny, Raeth Johnson and wife KaDee, Ryan and Todd Lacen and Lauren Harrington and 11 grandchildren, Eric, Jacob, Jake, Chayton, Mindy Jo, Tanner, Allie, Ashlee, Dixie, Trenton and Trevor.

She was preceded in death by her husbands and her sons, Monte Johnson and Rick Johnson.

Mrs. Braxdale was born Aug. 9, 1925, in Liberal, to Luther and Syble (Griffith) Miller. She married George Johnson on Jan. 13, 1946, in Girard, Kan. He died in 1961. In 1963 she married Grover Braxdale in Kansas City, Kan. They remained married until his death in 1985.

Mrs. Braxdale had worked as a seamstress and then as a homemaker, but could be best categorized as a professional volunteer. She volunteered at the blood bank for 20 years, Girl Scouts for 22 years, was a Sunday school teacher, delivered Meals on Wheels for 25 years and volunteered at the Ozark Bible College Senior Citizen Campus for seven years. She was a member of and a volunteer with the Red Hat Society, VFW, American Legion and Rebekahs, where she retired after holding all of the offices in the organization. She was a member of the First Christian Church of Lamar, where she served in many areas.

She enjoyed her plants, especially African Violets and Christmas Cactus, watching birds and Russel Stover chocolates. She will be missed.