Wanda Va Minge

Graveside services for Wanda Va Minge, 93, West Plains, Missouri, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, December 18, 2021 at Moody Cemetery, under the direction of Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.  

Mrs. Minge passed away at 6:10 p.m., Saturday, December 11, 2021, at Ozarks Healthcare.

She was born April 4, 1928, at Moody, Missouri, to Bedford Oden Cameron and Marie McElmurray Cameron.  She graduated from Bakersfield High School with the Class of 1944.  She married Lehman Mitchell Minge, and to this union five children were born.  Mrs. Minge was a seamstress at Tri-County Shirt Factory at Salem, Arkansas, for a number of years.  She enjoyed quilting and cooking, and she loved her family.  She was a member of Center Grove Baptist Church at Moody, Missouri.

She is survived by two children, Larry Minge and wife, Judy, Moody, Missouri, and Karen Summers and husband, Bill, Bakersfield, Missouri; three daughters-in-law, Joan Minge, Johnnie Minge, and Susan Minge; eleven grandchildren; twenty-five great-grandchildren; eight great-great-grandchildren, plus five on the way; one brother, Leroy Cameron and wife, Jewell; one sister, Irene Judd; and several nieces and nephews.

Her parents, three sons, Lonnie, Gary, and Ronnie Minge, two granddaughters, Beth Ann Summers and Rhonda Minge Piland, one brother, Charles Cameron, and one brother-in-law, Thomas Judd, preceded her in death.  

Mrs. Minge will lie in state from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Friday, at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.  Burial will be at Moody Cemetery.  Memorial contributions may be made to Moody Cemetery or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and may be left at or mailed to Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, 211 West Main, West Plains, MO  65775.