Darline May Briggs Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Darline M. Briggs, age 74 of Bucklin, died Sunday September 1, 2013 at North Care Hospice House, North Kansas City. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 pm Saturday September 7, 2013 at the Bucklin Christian Church with Reverend Tim Mitchell officiating. Interment will be held in Bucklin Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 9:00 am Saturday with family receiving friends from 10:00 am until time of service. Memorials have been suggested to Macon Hospice Compassus, or Bucklin Christian Church and may be left at the church or sent to Rhodes Funeral Home, 216 Linn Street, Brookfield, Missouri 64628. On-line condolences to www.rhodesfh.com Darline May, daughter of Gerald R. and Nellie E. Watson Hill was born on May 1, 1939 at Kirksville. She was a graduate of Bucklin High School and lived in the Bucklin and New Boston area most of her life. She had been a member of the Bucklin Christian Church for many years and enjoyed serving in many areas of the church. She is survived by her children; Tracy Briggs and wife Myra, Liberty, Trent Briggs, Bucklin, and Trella Hayden and husband Frank, Chillicothe; her mother, Nellie Hill, Bucklin; one sister, Eva Levell, Marceline; one brother, Robert Hill, Nixa; step-children, Randy and Beth Jury, Blue Springs, Sandy and Ian Gaunt, Spruce Grove, Alberta Canada, Rebekah and Barry Parks, Blue Springs, Tim Jury, Blue Springs, Matthew and Kim Jury, Louisburg, Ks., Sarah and Eric Robinson, Madison, Wisc.; grandchildren, Tobias Briggs, New Cambria, Nathan Briggs, Blue Springs, Jardin and Jacqueline Fuller, Memphis, Mo., Amanda Hoffman, St. Peters, and Trevor Briggs, Liberty; fourteen step-grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren. Darline was preceded in death by three infant sisters; one older sister, Geraldine "Jerry" Roberts; father Gerald Hill; one brother, Reavis Hill; and husbands, L.T. Briggs and Robert Jury.

Darline May Briggs

May 1, 1939 - September 1, 2013