Paula Street Eubanks was born on April 13, 1957 in Dexter, Missouri, to Jehu Tremayne and Emily Sutton Street and passed from this life surrounded by family into the loving arms of her Savior on August 25, 2020 at Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 63 years.
Mrs. Eubanks managed Eubanks Trucking in Dexter, Missouri, alongside her loving husband Eddy Eubanks. She was a member of First Baptist church and loved the holy spirit with a voracity rarely shown. She devoted her life to helping others and touched the lives of many, to include strangers whom she had never met, with her philanthropic works. She enjoyed watching local sports, spent countless hours researching the various genealogical connections throughout her family, and enjoying the gospel through the written works of Christian music.
Mrs. Eubanks was also an animal lover, extending the same love and devotion to her animals that she showed to the people she affected throughout the years. If there was ever a stray animal who wandered into Paula’s yard, it quickly found a place in her home becoming a member of her family.
Paula loved her family and you could always count on her to be there when things were tough to offer a kind word or piece of advice. She was a mother, and a grandmother, who touched her grandchildren in ways that will seldom be forgotten. To Paula, family was family, and that meant everything.
Over the course of her life Paula achieved many things such as founding the Dexter Chapter of Right to Life, a foundation devoted to protecting the lives of the unborn and graduating Bloomfield High School before going on to attend Southeast Missouri State University where she achieved a Bachelor’s of Science in Social Work, graduating Cum Laude.
In addition to her husband Eddy Eubanks, whom she was united in marriage to on April 26th, 1975, she is survived by her father, Jehu Tremayne Street of Bloomfield; father-in-law Edd Eubanks and wife Velva Arlene Eubanks; her son, Shane Eubanks and partner Cerissa Link of Dexter; her daughters, Shana Klipfel and husband Matthew of Oran, Emily Willis and husband Kyle of Cape Girardeau; by her brother Thomas Street and wife Tammy of Bloomfield; her two sisters Natalie Evans and husband Ernie of Bloomfield, and Elizabeth Street of Cape Girardeau; her three grandchildren, Luke Eubanks, Will Klipfel, Weston Klipfel; her nieces and nephews, Blake Kimbrough, Zach Cain, Erica Cain, and Hunter Taul, her brother-in-law, Jim Eubanks of Dexter, and her many fur-children who were just as much a part of the family.
She was preceded in death by her mother Emily Sutton Street of Bloomfield. Her father, who she was survived by, quickly joined her in the arms of our Heavenly Father.
Friends may attend visitation at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Saturday, August 29, 2020, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Chapel on Saturday, August 29, 2020, at 3:00 p.m.
Interment will follow in the Dexter Cemetery.
Friends and family are encouraged to send flowers or make a memorial donation to Samaritan’s Purse, PO Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607 or Missouri Right to Life, PO Box 651, Jefferson City, MO 65102
Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter is in charge of all arrangements.
