Lois Ladd, daughter of Jo Ann Duley Gibson of Dexter, Missouri, and the late Arden Smith, was born on May 31, 1964, in Sonoma, California, and departed this life on September 26, 2021, at St. Clair Hospital in Fenton, Missouri, at the age of 57 years.

Mrs. Ladd was a former driver for Hallcon. She had also worked for Roy Al’s 1-stop, Weekenders and Stanfields. She attended Dexter High School and graduated in 1982. She attended the Risen Church in Dexter and was a resident of Dexter. She loved reading, cooking, gardening, and talking with people, she never met a stranger. She was a devoted mother, she radiated love and kindness, and she never had a bad word to say about anyone.

On June 28, 1990, in Dexter, Missouri, she was united in marriage to John Ladd. Mr. Ladd survives of their home in Dexter.

In addition to her husband John and mother Jo Ann, she is survived by her daughter, Jessica Ladd of Dexter, Missouri; by her brother Daniel Smith of Bloomfield, Missouri; by two sisters, Lynn Fortner of Bloomfield, Missouri, and Kathy Cole of California, Missouri.

Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m.

Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel on Wednesday, September 29, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. Interment will follow in Hagy Cemetery.

Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter is assisting with arrangements.