Bill Hutchcraft, son of the late Raymond Hutchcraft and Evelyn Saltzman Hutchcraft was born on September 20, 1944 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and departed this life on December 23, 2017 at the Southeast Health of Stoddard County Emergency Room in Dexter at the age of 73 years.

Bill was an employee of the Stoddard County Cotton Company in Bernie, Missouri and a resident of Dexter.

On March 2, 1984 he was united in marriage to Paula Cox in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mrs. Hutchcraft survives of the home in Dexter.

Besides his wife, Paula other survivors include three daughters, Lauren Howard and husband Brock of Dexter, Brooke Pagano and her husband Nick of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Erika Hutchcraft of Cape Girardeau, Missouri; by one grandson, Christian Pagano of Colorado Springs, Colorado; also by other relatives and many friends.

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by one granddaughter, Emerson Pagano.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter from 12:00 until 2:00 P.M. Thursday, December 28, 2017.

Funeral service will then be conducted on Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. with Rev. Ron Beaton officiating.

Interment will follow in the Dexter Cemetery.