William Loyd “Dub” Conner, son of the late Loyd Oceal Conner and Bessie Clone Knight Conner was born on November 6, 1933 in Dexter and departed this life on August 28, 2017 at the Central Gardens Residential Care Facility in Dexter at the age of 83.

Mr. Conner was a Veteran of the United States Army and served in the Korean War.  He was a member of the Hopewell General Baptist Church and had attended the First Baptist Church.  Mr. Conner served for nine years on the Richland School Board.  

He was a member of the Essex Masonic lodge for fifty years and served twenty-five years on the local Co-op board.  He enjoyed fishing and playing golf and spent forty-three years farming from 1954-1997.

On January 17, 1953, he was united in marriage to Eloise Causey in her parents’ home.  Mrs. Conner survives him and resides in Dexter.

Dub is survived by one son, Dale Conner and wife Bev of Ellsinore, Missouri; by two daughters, Diana and husband Larry Mayberry of Dexter and Karen and husband Frank Ninos of Denver, Colorado; by one son-in-law, Dale Hardin of Parma; by ten grandchildren, Jamie Dawn Kuykendall and husband Jeremy, Matthew Mayberry and wife Katie, Jeremy Conner, Sarah Lawfield and husband Jarrett, Marissa Mills and husband Matt, Casey White and husband Trey, Jessica Hunter and husband John, Alexis Payne and husband Jamie, Cody Conner and wife Lorna and John Michael Ninos; and by seventeen great-grandchildren, Hayden Conner, Lanie Grey Mills, Conner Kuykendall, Hanna Rose Conner, Drew White, Lindy Lawfield, Cain Kuykendall, Emerson Hunter, Hudson White, Barrett Mills, Sawyer Mayberry, Bristol Lawfield, Sophia Payne, Johnny Hunter, Sylvia Mayberry, William Lawfield and Caroline Payne.

Besides his parents he was preceded in death by one daughter, Linda Hardin and by one sister, Marlene Nelson.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Thursday, August 31, 2017 from 5:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M.  

Funeral services will be conducted on Friday, September 1, 2017 at 10:00 A.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with Rev. Mike Williams officiating.  

Interment will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield with Full Military Honors.

In lieu of flowers the family requests all memorials be made to the Disabled Veterans Wildlife facility, P.O. Box 372, Dexter, Missouri 63841 or the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery Assistance League.