Clara Mae Curtis, 73, of Kirksville, Missouri passed away Thursday December 8, 2016 at Northeast Regional Medical Center, in Kirksville, MO. Clara will have a graveside service, at 1pm Tuesday December 13, 2016 at Memorial Park Cemetery. Clara was preceded in death by father Francis Runkle, brother Dick Runkle and her husband Ray L. Curtis and a grandson Ryan. Survivors include her five children Hank and wife Jamie Bennett, Jeff Bennett, LeAnn Evans and her husband Doug, Rick Jones and his wife Kathy, all of Illinois, and Sherry Hatfield and her husband Justin, of Kirksville, Missouri, and her loving mother Mildred. She also leaves eleven grandchildren and numerous great-great grandchildren. Clara graduated from Rushville, Illinois and later work at Wal-Mart, she was a loving mother, wife and friend. She will be missed by all who knew her, and really missed by Sherry.
