ROBERT MOSS

LOCKWOOD-Services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church in Neosho for Robert H. “Bob” Moss, 87, Lockwood, formerly of Neosho, who died Saturday, March 26, 2016, at Freeman West Hospital, following an illness. Pastor Rich Williams will officiate. Burial will be in Neosho Memorial Park Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, at Clark Funeral Home in Neosho.

Memorial contributions may be made to Barbara Cope, to establish a NW Missouri Gas and Steam Engine Project in honor of Bob and Jody, in care of the funeral home at PO Box 66, Neosho, MO 64850.

Online condolences may be posted at www.clarkfuneralhomes.com.

Survivors include three daughters, Barbie Cope and husband Jeff, Lockwood, Brenda Piliouras and husband George, Oakland Township, Mich. and Bobbi Lee and husband Matt, Holiday Island, Ark.; grandchildren, Arin Ogden and husband Riley, Kaci Cope, Jessie Schrauger and husband Stephen, Lauren Keller and husband Alex, Kelly Brown and husband Anthony, Ashley Hamilton, Drew Hamilton and Renee Lee; two great-grandsons, Cooper and Jackson Ogden; one brother, Fred Moss, Hamilton and four sisters, Betty Dixon, Hamilton, Phyllis Montleone, Holt, Carol Stockton, Neosho and Nancy Franklin, Columbia, Mo.

He was preceded in death by one sister, Evelyn Hess and two brothers, Wendell Moss and Charles Moss.

Mr. Moss was born Feb. 3, 1929, in Kingston, the second of nine children to Russell and Sarah (Matchett) Moss. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean Conflict and moved to the Neosho area in 1957 from Columbia. He retired from the U.S. Postal Service as a rural mail carrier and prior to that, he had owned and operated Bob Moss MFA, Bob Moss Skelly and Moss's Mini Mart. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Neosho and a member of the Rural Letter Carrier's Association, American Legion and NW Missouri Steam and Gas Engine Association.

He married Jo-Anne “Jody” Hamlet on Sept. 18, 1949, at her parent's home in Hamilton. She died March 26, 2015.