Glinda (Sue) Nettles

Funeral services for Glinda (Sue) Nettles, 80, West Plains, Missouri, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, April 4, 2024, in the Rose Chapel at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.    

Mrs. Nettles passed away at 12:32 a.m., Saturday, March 30, 2024, at University Hospital, Columbia, Missouri. 

She was born December 5, 1943, at Corning, Arkansas, to Robert and Isabell Mofield. Sue was a 1961 graduate of Slidell High School. Sue worked several places in her lifetime, but one of her first jobs was with Alice Department Store in Texas. She also worked as a switchboard operator for Bell Telephone. More recently Sue worked in the bakery at Price Chopper in West Plains and at Glenwood School, where she was a cook and secretary. Sue was married to Bill Scheig of San Antonio, Texas; they lived in Alice and Houston, Texas for ten years and had one son, Thomas Joseph Scheig. On November 17, 1975, Sue married Jerry Lee Nettles; they moved to Missouri and had two children, Lamar Kirk and Briana Kay Nettles. Living in or around the West Plains area for many years, Sue enjoyed deer hunting, gardening and doing crafts. Some of her favorite crafts were making elaborate photo albums and handmade jewelry. She served on the Glenwood School PTO for several years. During this time, she conducted and directed several plays, skits and talent shows hosted by the PTO. Sue and Jerry were members of the China Union Church in West Plains for many years. There they developed many friends and brothers and sisters in Christ. With those friends they would often get together for a card game of pitch or canasta. If you knew Sue, then you knew she was always cracking the next joke or trying to make you laugh! If you would ever tell her, you had lost a little weight, her immediate response was, “I found it!”. Sue and Jerry could also dance the Jitterbug into their 50’s and loved entertaining house guests with crazy, funny shenanigans. Sue got to celebrate her 80th birthday with family in 2023.

She is survived by her children, Jody Scheig and wife, Cynthia, Kirk Nettles and wife, Angela, Briana Hennesy and husband, Steven and Jim Nettles and wife, Dynise; two grandchildren, Lexi and Shane Hennesy; one great-grandchild, Emerald Avery Murrell; several step grandchildren and step great-grandchildren; her sisters, Donna Jones and Kim Elliott; brothers, Billy Mofield and John Elliott; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, Jerry Nettles, three sisters, Margaret Smith, Jackie Graves and Mickie Steptoe, and two brothers, Donald and Rex Elliott.

Visitation services will be held from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.  Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.  Memorial contributions may be made to Glenwood School and may be left at or mailed to Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, 211 West Main, West Plains, MO  65775.