Wanda Keasler, daughter of the late Ernest Van Meter Nixon and Bertha Etta Moore was born on July 1, 1921 in Kennett, Missouri and departed this life on January 22, 2018 at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter at the age of 96 years.

Mrs. Keasler was a homemaker and a resident of Dexter.  She was of Baptist Faith.

Survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Karen Keasler and Doug Kilpatrick of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, one grandson, Allen Below of Parma, Missouri; also by two great-granddaughters, Bailey and Molly Below of Bloomfield, Missouri.

Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by three sons, Cecil Claude Keasler, Larry Don Keasler, and Earnest Lynn Keasler; by one daughter, Georgia Mae Keasler; four brothers, Martin Ray Nixon, Charles Theodore Nixon, James Leonard Nixon and George David Nixon; by four sisters, Glennie Stacy, Bea Cravens, Cleo Denton, and Marie Nixon.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter from noon until 2:00 P.M. Wednesday, January 24, 2018. 

Funeral services will then be conducted on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter.

Interment will follow at the Taylor Cemetery near Essex, Missouri.  

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Stoddard County Children’s Home, Memorial Tribute Fund, PO Box 164, Dexter, MO, 63841 or  St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, PO Box 1893, Memphis, TN, 38101-9950