Jerry Fredrick Triplett, son of the late Fred Triplett and Essie Williamson Triplett was born on May 31, 1933 at Essex and departed this life in the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center on September 20, 2013 at the age of 80 years.

Mr. Triplett was a former millwright, a former maintenance employee of the City of Ellsinore and a resident of Ellsinore.

He was united in marriage to Wilma Rodgers Stahl on November 27, 1980 at Ellsinore.  Mrs. Triplett survives of the home.

Besides his wife, he is survived by one son Jerry F. Triplett Jr. and wife Debbie of Dexter: by one daughter, Terry Triplett of Bloomfield: by one step-son, Barry Stahl and wife Joyce of Ellsinore: by four step-daughters and their spouses, Karen and Rodney Colyott of Highland, California, Paula and Randy Yancey of Dexter, Debbie and Mike Jarrell of Dexter and Sandy and Mike Combs of Branson: by seventeen grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were conducted at 1:00 P.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with Dr. Bob Lee officiating.  Interment followed in the Triplett Cemetery near Essex.

Memorials may be made to the Stoddard County Children’s Home Memorial Tribute Fund, PO Box 164, Dexter, Mo. 63841: 18 ForeLife, % Scott Kruse, 705 Laurie Circle, Dexter, MO. 63841: Ellsinore Booster Club, % Ellsinore City Hall, 11 West Cleveland Avenue, Ellsinore, MO. 63937.