Jennolia Ann Leathers, daughter of the late Ralph Andrew Jackson Shipley and Loedith Colvin Shipley was born on June 28, 1948 in Portageville, Missouri and departed this life on September 7, 2020 at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston at the age of 72.

Mrs. Leathers had worked as a seamstress at the Paramount Headwear factory in Dexter.  She had also worked at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter as a dietary aid.

On November 6, 1968 she was united in marriage to Ira Conway Leathers in Dexter.  Mr. Leathers preceded her in death on September 23, 2019.

She is survived by her son, Cory Leathers and wife Kim of Cape Girardeau, Missouri; by her daughter, Gloria Young of Bernie, Missouri; by her brother, Steve Shipley of Sikeston, Missouri; and by two grandchildren, Austin Leathers of Sikeston, Missouri and Dylan Young of Bernie, Missouri.

Besides her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by her son in law, Todd Young; by her brother, Jerry Chism; and by four sisters, Elizabeth Tison, Lois McNeil and Genevieve Shipley, and Bonnie Kemper.

A private service will be conducted at the Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, Missouri. 

Interment will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield. 

Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter is in charge of all arrangements.