CHARLOTTE MARIE CUNDIFF

NEVADA, Mo.- A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Oak Grove Cemetery in Oakton for Charlotte Marie Cundiff, 89, Nevada, Mo., who died Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. The Rev. Galen Friedrichs will officiate.

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

In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, in care of the funeral home.

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

Survivors include a sister-in-law, Kathryn Hughes; eight children and their families, Bill Erwin Jr. and wife Janet, Jim Erwin and wife Vickie, Saundra Wehmeyer, Rick Erwin and wife Ronda, Russ Erwin and wife Marian, Sue Renwick and husband Pat, Sally Phipps and husband John and Sherry Shaw; 22 grandchildren; 46 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Maurice; a brother, Ronald Hughes and a son-in-law, Gary Wehmeyer.

Mrs. Cundiff was born Dec. 16, 1933, in Toledo, Ohio, to W.D. and Helen (Norris) Hughes. She moved to Carthage with her family in 1945. She was honored to be FFA Barn Warming Queen in 1950 and was a 1951 graduate of Carthage High School.

She married her first husband, Bill Erwin, in 1959 and they moved to Nevada, Mo. She was an avid lifelong seamstress and quilter. She was a member of Mo-Kan Square Dance Club, the Women’s International Bowling League and the Trinity Lutheran Church of Nevada. She ran the Nevada License Bureau from 1972-76.

She married Maurice Cundiff on Sept. 6, 1984, in Harrison, Ark. While living in Lamar, they started SoMo Parts Company. They had an extensive personal collection of tractors of all kinds. From 1986 to 2006 they bought and sold toy tractor parts, traveling to events and making friends throughout the Midwest.