EFFIE MAE HEISKELL

RURAL GOLDEN CITY-Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Daniel Funeral Home in Lamar for Effie Mae Heiskell, 80, rural Golden City, who died at her home early Wednesday morning, June 15, 2016, surrounded by her family. Rev. Randall Frazier will officiate. Burial will be in Dudenville Cemetery, south of Golden City.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Community Bible Church, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences and memories may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include her husband, Norman; a son, Kevin Heiskell, Jerico Springs; four daughters, Geneva Heiskell, Springfield, Cindy Smith, Neosho, Janice Frazier and husband Randy, Chetopa, Kan. and Lisa Sikes, Neosho; a daughter-in-law, Paula Heiskell, Jefferson City; three brothers, Tom Duncan, Lamar, John Duncan and wife Laura Mae, Valley Center, Kan. and Linley Duncan and wife Dorothy, Springdale, Ark.; 13 grandchildren, Dustin Heiskell, Charissa Lock, Aaron Heiskell, Zachary Smith, Gabrielle Smith, Drew Frazier, Marti Frazier, Faith Frazier, Silas Frazier, Olivia Frazier, Kyle Sikes, Victoria Sikes and Lacy Heiskell; five great-grandchildren, Braydon Smith, Aidan Frazier, Madalyn Frazier, Jude Frazier and Lane Lock and a multitude of extended family and friends.

She was preceded in death by a son, Norman L. Heiskell; a granddaughter, Hannah Frazier; a son-in-law, Paul Sikes; three brothers, Howard, Loren and Finley Duncan and five sisters, Wilma Bruffett, Wilda Cearnal, Reda Bishop, Erba Williams and Lorene Bennett.

Mrs. Heiskell was born June 26, 1935, in Lamar, the youngest of the 12 children of Elvage and Effie (Glenn) Duncan. A lifelong area resident, she graduated from Golden City High School in 1954. In addition to being a devoted pastor's wife, mother and grandmother, she was a natural, nurturing caregiver for family and friends. Many will remember her as their Stanley Products representative and her smile of greeting at a multitude of worship gatherings through the years. She was a woman of great faith who supported her husband and ministered to others through word and deed. A hospitable homemaker, she loved to bake, enjoyed growing beautiful flower gardens, cherished time spent with family and memories made over games of Skip-Bo with her grandchildren.

She married Norman Heiskell on May 27, 1956, at Carthage and they recently celebrated 60 years of growing together in the Lord.