JOSEPH “JOE” OTIS BARTLETT

LAMAR- Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Daniel Funeral Home for Joseph “Joe” Otis Bartlett, 79, Lamar, who died Friday, June 23, 2023, at Freeman Hospital in Joplin. Burial will follow in Maple Grove Cemetery in Sylvania.

The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Contributions are suggested and made payable to Maple Grove Cemetery, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.dfhlamar.com.

Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Jean; two sons, Bruce Bartlett and wife Toni, Lockwood and Brent Bartlett and wife Lori, Liberal; four grandchildren, Haley Bartlett and Kelsey Bartlett, both of Lockwood, Mikayla Payne and husband Alex, Nevada, Mo. and Chloe Roberts and husband Caleb, Kansas City, Mo.; two brothers, Rodney Bartlett and wife Joyce, Lee's Summit and Robert "Neal" Bartlett, Lockwood and his best pal, his dog "Oscar".

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Darius Bartlett.

Mr. Bartlett was born Dec. 23, 1943, in Carthage, to Clyde Raymond Bartlett and Louise Lorene (Adams) Bartlett. He attended a one room schoolhouse, Golden City grade school and graduated from Golden City High School in the class of 1960. He married Jean Kaye Gillman on May 2, 1964, in Golden City.

Mr. Bartlett worked at Traders National Bank in Kansas City, Mo., raised cows, pigs and row crop farmed with his father-in-law in rural Lockwood, worked at O'Sullivan Industries and O'Reilly Auto Parts in Lamar. He was on the Lockwood School Board for 15 years, the MFA Board, District 1 Rural Water Board, coached little league baseball, was an official scoreboard keeper for basketball and football at Lockwood High School for 30+ years, a MSHSAA basketball official and baseball umpire, president of Maple Grove Cemetery for 30+years and was a bus and golf cart driver volunteer for Barton County Memorial Hospital.

He often traveled with his wife on mission trips to the Philippines, Mexico and many states. He was a member of Oakton Church in Lamar. He loved his dogs, especially his dachshunds Oscar, Winston and Stanley Joseph, whom he taught to smile.