Billy Lee Ross, son of the late William Oren Ross and Blanche Pauline Grubbs Ross was born on January 6, 1940 in Parma, Missouri and departed this life on September 2, 2017 at the Southeast Health Center Emergency Room in Dexter at the age of 77 years.

Mr. Ross was a Farmer for many years and a resident of Dexter, Missouri.

On September 19, 1999, he was united in marriage to Betty Lou Brackney in Dexter, Missouri.  Mrs. Ross survives of the home in Dexter.

Besides his wife, survivors include four sons, William “Buddy” Ross of Las Vegas, Nevada; Donald Ross and Billy Joe Ross both of Dexter, and James Ross and wife Mary Kay of Bloomfield, Missouri; by three daughters, Tammy Lamirand of Bakersfield, California, Jeanie Weldon of Titusville, Florida, and Polly Ann Scowden of Poplar Bluff, Missouri; two brothers, Gary Don Ross of Bloomfield, Missouri and Dean Ross of Hazelwood, Missouri; three sisters, Margaret Moore of Dexter, Missouri, Pam Rowland of Bloomfield, Missouri and Rhonda Tong of Wisconsin;  also by twenty-one grandchildren and twenty-eight great-grandchildren.

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by one son, Kelly Scott Ross and by three sisters, Dorothy Lawrence, Joyce Goodman, Charlotte Lynn Ross.

Visitation will be held on Thursday, September 7, 2017 from 5:00 until 8:00 P.M. at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, Missouri.  

Interment will follow at a later date.