JOSEPH PENNINGTON

LAMAR- Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Harvey Cemetery for Joseph W. Pennington, 80, Lamar, who died Wednesday, May 2, 2018, at Freeman West Hospital, Joplin.

Arrangements are under the direction of Weng Funeral Chapel, Jasper.

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

Online condolences may be made at wengfuneralchapel.com.

Survivors include his six children, Joseph L. Pennington and wife Lynn, James Pennington and wife Carol, Scott Pennington and wife Sherry, Pat Pennington, Kristy Roehrs and husband Scott and Cindy Crockett and husband Dustin; 20 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Mr. Pennington was born June 21, 1937, in Reeds, to Joseph Wilson Sr. and Margaret (Wilson) Pennington. He was retired from the Carthage Poultry Plant.

He married Lynna Bishop on March 27, 1956, at Carthage.