Nadine Gaines

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Mrs. Nadine Gaines, 91, of Puxico, Missouri departed this life on Jan. 15, 2017 surrounded by her loving friends and family. She was born on June 28, 1925 at Lick Creek, Wayne County, Missouri (currently the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge). She was one of seven children born to Nona Lee Haney and Clayton Howard Wilfong. Nadine attended Fry School at Rabbit Ridge in Wayne County. During the early 1940s she moved to St. Louis, Missouri with her friend Ruby Walk Barnfiled to for Melicots Chemical Factory and later Nabisco Biscuit Company. On Nov. 1, 1947 she was united in Holy Matrimony to Howard Dales Gaines in McGee, Missouri. To this union two children were born, Geneva Faye and Howard David. She worked as a homemaker and raised her daughter on a horse farm in rural Puxico. She also lived for a short time in Oroville, California and Grand Junction, Colorado while Howard worked as a logger and digging irrigation canals. Howard, Nadine, and Geneva enjoyed working with horses, camping, fishing on Mingo, and fish fries with family and friends.

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