IDA MAY KOZIOL

JOPLIN- A visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, at Konantz Warden Funeral Home in Lamar for Ida May Koziol, 89, Joplin, who died Monday, July 16, 2018. A second visitation will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday, at Impact Life Church in Joplin, 2231 Annie Baxter.

Survivors include one son, Willie Wise and wife Junitta, Joplin; one daughter, Connie Kay Smith; two granddaughters, Dana Evans and husband Jason, Fredonia and Deana LeGrand, Lamar; seven great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren and two siblings, a brother, Earl and his wife Susie McCulley, Lamar and a sister, Mable Jones, Reeds.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Bud McCulley and Bob McCulley and five sisters, Thelma Jane Freeman, Flossie Tuck, Pearl McMackin, Barbara Soden and Blanch Stevens.

Mrs. Koziol was born March 11, 1929, in Newport, to James Franklin and Cora Opal (Hayward) McCulley. She went through the eighth grade in Newport and then attended Golden City High School. She was a seamstress, both professionally at Big Smith and Jock’s Nitch and at home where she made uncountable quilts, all stitched by hand.