JUANITA ROOKSTOOL

NIXA-Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Daniel Funeral Home in Lamar for Juanita Rookstool, 74, Nixa, who died Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield. Burial will follow at Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Visitation will be held prior to the service on Sunday, beginning at 1 p.m.

Contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include her husband, Lawrence Rookstool; two daughters, Lisa Scheetz, Raytown and Kimberly McKenzie and husband Rick, Kansas City, Mo.; two brothers, Robert Stump and wife Laura Lee and Eugene Stump and wife Connie, both of Lockwood; five grandchildren, Jessica Scheetz, Nicole O'Dell, Amber O'Dell, Alison Scheetz and Kristin O'Dell and one great-granddaughter, Adalynn Rodriguez.

Mrs. Rookstool was born Dec. 4, 1941, at Everton, to Lee Thomas and Rita Faye (Ford) Stump. She was a 1959 graduate of Lockwood High School. She married Lawrence H. Rookstool at Kansas City, Mo., on June 2, 1962. They lived in Kansas City for a number of years before moving to Nixa, where she worked as a salvage and claims specialist for American National Property and Casualty Insurance Company, until retiring in 2013. She and her husband attended the Friendly Baptist Church in Branson. She loved fishing and making quilts.