ROBERTA CASSATT

NEVADA, Mo.- Services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Ferry Funeral Home for Roberta Ilene Cassatt, 74, Nevada, who died Sunday, July 2, 2017, at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, following a lengthy illness. Burial will follow in Sheldon Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, at the funeral home.

Memorials are suggested to the Sheldon Cemetery Association, in care of the funeral home.

Survivors include a daughter, Vicki Wright and husband Trent, Fort Scott, Kan.; two grandchildren, Emma Pritchett, Walker and Shade Wright, Ft. Scott, Kan.; one brother, Robert Bogart, Sheldon; several nieces and nephews and two sisters-in-law, Leslie Bogart, Sheldon and Barbara Fleming and husband Mark, Lamar.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Larry Bogart and Edward Allen Bogart.

Mrs. Cassatt was born Feb. 4, 1943, in Sheldon, to Frank and Corrine (Ford) Bogart. She grew up in the Bronaugh and Sheldon areas and was a 1960 graduate of Bronaugh High School. She worked for Big Smith in Lamar, the Division of Employment Security and in the Vernon County Clerk’s office until her retirement. She loved spending time with family, especially her grandchildren, playing cards, being outdoors, shopping and traveling. She attended the United Methodist Church in Nevada.

She married Gary Cassatt on Jan. 17, 1965, in Sheldon. He died Aug. 29, 1993.