Madeline Hume, daughter of the late Fred J. Meyers and Eliza Vance Meyers was born on April 9, 1929 in Potosi, Missouri and departed this life on August 18, 2017 at the Saint Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the age of 88.

Mrs. Hume was a member of The Risen Church in Dexter, Mo. where she had been a member for many long years.  She was a homemaker and a retired bus driver for the Dexter Public School System.

She was the widow of the late Robert R. Gardner in 1952, the late Winson A (Steve) Smith in 1973, and the late Earl L. Hume in 2002.

She is survived by one daughter, Violet (James) Higgs; by one son-in-law, John Wade of Dexter, Mo.; by four grandchildren, Brian (Kim) Barnes of Jackson, Mo, Melanie (Mike) Geiger of Bell City, Mo, Vickie (Drew) Soule of Dexter, Mo, and Carmen (Justin) Maddon of Wahiawa, HI; by eleven great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild and other friends and relatives.

Besides her parents, she is preceded in death by one daughter, Nancy Carol Gardner Wade; five brothers, Charles, Alfred, Joseph, Stanley and Jesse; by three sisters, Lucy Meyers, Essie Battrell and Ann Schwender and several nieces and nephews.

Friends may call at the Rainey Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 from 12:30 pm to 2:00 PM.  

Services will be conducted at the Rainey Mathis Funeral Chapel on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 2:00 PM with Rev. Jeff Roth officiating.

Interment will follow at the Caroline Dowdy Cemetery.