DONALD KIMSEY

RURAL SHELDON- No services are planned, but a celebration of life will be held later at the home for Donald Robert Kimsey, 71, rural Sheldon, who died Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, at his home.

Arrangements are under the direction of Konantz Warden Funeral Home, Lamar.

Condolences may be sent to www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include his son, Kevin Kimsey; one brother, Greg Kepler, Nevada, Mo.; one aunt, Marilyn Bond, Sheldon and many cousins. Also surviving are many special friends including Doug Mundy, Matt and Sherry Fortner and Bill Griffitt.

He was preceded in death by his father, mother, several aunts, uncles and cousins.

Mr. Kimsey was born April 23, 1949, at Nevada, Mo., to Carl O. and C. Olene (Lathrop) Kimsey.

He attended Grange and Sheldon schools. He entered the United States Army in February 1969 and was deployed to Long Bien Ho, Vietnam. He returned home in 1970.

He was united in marriage to Maudie Long and to this union one son was born.

Mr. Kimsey spent his life farming and then building ponds, terraces, waterways and doing other agricultural dozing for farmers in several counties. He was never happier than when he was on his D6C pushing dirt and drinking barley pop.