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BRIZENDINE
David Kenneth Brizendine, 54, Jefferson City, died April 8, 2002, in Miller County.
He was born Aug. 31, 1947, in Moniteau County, a son of Glenn and Margaret Harris Brizendine. His mother survives in Jefferson City.
A 1965 graduate of Jefferson City High School, he attended Capital Business College and Linn Technical College. He served in the Army during the Vietnam War and served two terms as Cole County Western District commissioner.
He was past president of the Jefferson City Democratic Club. He was a Fifth Ward committee man and was chairman of the 113th Legislative District and was treasurer of the 6th Senatorial District. He was a member of the St. Louis Art Museum and served on the board of governors of Capital Region Medical Center. He was on the board of the Jefferson City Chamber of Commerce and was a member of American Legion Post 5.
He owned and operated Dunkin Donuts for 12 years. He was a real estate investor and contractor, remodeling buildings for more than 25 years. He participated in the Hoof-A-Thon for the past 17 years and received the Good Neighbor Award of Jefferson City. He was a member of Memorial Baptist Church.
Other survivors include: one son, David Allen Brizendine, Jefferson City; and one brother, Sammy Brizendine, Jefferson City.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Houser-Millard Funeral Directors. The Rev. Ken Lumley and the Rev. Mike Rapp will officiate. Private family graveside services will be held.
Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Thursday.
Memorials are suggested to the David Brizendine Memorial Trust Fund, c/o Jefferson Bank.
HESS
Nana Hess, 91, Jefferson City, died April 8, 2002, at Villa Marie Skilled Nursing Facility.
Arrangements are incomplete at Buescher Memorial Home.
WEIGEL
A.C. "Bud" Weigel, 77, Jefferson City, died April 8, 2002, at Capital Region Medical Center.
He was born Dec. 16, 1924, in Jefferson City, a son of A.C. Sr. and Grace E. Faust Weigel. He was married July 21, 1946, in Olathe, Kan., to Mary L. LePage, who survives at the home.
A lifelong resident of Jefferson City, he was a 1942 graduate of Jefferson City High School and graduated Jefferson City Junior College and the University of Missouri-Columbia. He was an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II.
He worked as a statistician with the Missouri Highway Department prior to becoming an agent with the National Old Line Life Insurance Company in 1953. In 1958, he was named state manager and relocated to Albuquerque, N.M. to establish a new agency in New Mexico and west Texas . In 1964, he became state manager in Arkansas for Mark Twain Life Insurance Company. He later owned and operated Future Service Inc., a prearranged funeral service company, and Associated Investors, securing funding for mining projects.
He was a member of First United Methodist Church; was a past member of the VFW, Roy Sone Post 1003; and was a member of American Legion, Roscoe Enloe Post 5.
Other survivors include: three daughters, Pam Wren and Susan Weigel, both of Jefferson City, and Jana Weigel, St. Louis; one sister, Virginia Weigel, Jefferson City; and one grandson.
Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Freeman Mortuary. The Rev. E. Gene Rooney will officiate. Graveside services with military honors will be in Riverview Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Friday.
Memorials are suggested to First United Methodist Church or the American Lung Association.
SMITH
Jack C. Smith, 78, Laurie, died April 8, 2002, at Laurie Care Center.
He was born Aug. 24, 1923, in North Platte, Neb., a son of E. Dale and Lucy Tilford Smith.
He graduated from St. Patrick's High School in North Platte in 1941. He was an Army veteran of World War II. He worked for Union Pacific Railroad and for Chicago Northwestern Railway, where he was manager of the dining cars on the streamliners City of Denver and City of San Francisco. He was in the restaurant business in Chicago and later in food service in Des Moines and other Iowa locations. He retired to the Lake of the Ozarks.
Survivors include one sister, Betty Wilson, Falmouth, Mass., and one grandchild.
One daughter, Susan Ann Smith Mills, preceded him in death.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the Shrine of St. Patrick Catholic Church, Laurie. The Rev. Fred J. Barnett will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at Kidwell-Garber Funeral Home, Laurie, with a rosary at 6:30 p.m.
KING
Richard L. King, 81, Jefferson City, died April 9, 2002, at his home.
He was born July 29, 1920, in Springfield, a son of Charles C. and Clarissa W. Britzman King. He was married April 5, 1942, in Springfield, to Eleanor Brown, who survives at the home.
He graduated from high school in Houston, Mo., and from Southwest Missouri State University with a bachelor's in education. He received his master's and doctoral degrees in education from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He was an Army veteran of World War II.
He was a commercial pilot and flight instructor prior to becoming a high school teacher in Buffalo. He also taught in the Overseas Dependent School in France and Germany, and at Northern Arizona University-Flagstaff. From 1971 until his retirement in 1991, he was director of curriculum with the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
He was a member and deacon emeritus at First Baptist Church. He was a member of the China, India, Burma Hump Pilots Association, a lifelong member of the Rotary Club, and a past president of the Missouri Pilots Association.
He was author of "Reclaiming Our Schools: Whose Kids Are They Anyway?"
Other survivors include: one daughter, Jeanie McGowan, Jefferson City; two sisters, Virginia Peart, Gainesville, Fla., and Patricia Vawter, Springfield; two brothers, Charles King, Long Beach, Calif., and Paul King, Boise, Idaho; three grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church. The Rev. Doyle Sager and the Rev. Thomas Nelson will officiate. Private graveside services will be in Greenlawn Cemetery, Springfield.
Visitation will be from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Thursday at the church.
Memorials are suggested to the First Baptist Church Endowment Fund.
Arrangements are under the direction of Freeman Mortuary.
HILL
Connie Demois Hill, 40, Jefferson City, died April 9, 2002, at Capital Region Medical Center.
She was born Sept. 26, 1961, in Warsaw, a daughter of Kenneth and Ruby Byrd Demois. Her mother survives in Jefferson City. She was married June 22, 1996, in Jefferson City, to Wayne Hill, who survives at the home.
A lifelong resident of the Jefferson City area, she was a 1979 graduate of Jefferson City High School. She worked in the kitchen at Capital Region Medical Center for the past 21 years.
Other survivors include one sister, Betty Lieneke, Jefferson City and one brother, Johnny Demois, Jefferson City.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Freeman Mortuary. The Rev. James Steele will officiate. Graveside services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Shawnee Cemetery near Warsaw.
Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Thursday.
Memorials are suggested to Cancer Research.
SCRUGGS
Nellie Irene Davis Scruggs, 94, Hartsburg, died April 9, 2002, at Boone Hospital Center, Columbia.
She was born Sept. 23, 1907, in Mercer County, a daughter of Jesse B. and Eva L. Mulvania Davis. She was married in August 1922, in Kansas City, to George Scruggs, who died July 3, 1961.
She was a childcare worker at Woodhaven in Columbia. She was a member of Goshen Primitive Baptist Church in Wilton. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star 309 in Ashland and the foster grandparent program in Columbia.
Survivors include: one son, James E. Scruggs, Gallatin, Tenn.; one daughter, Kathryn Crump, Hartsburg; one brother, Raymond Davis, Mercer; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
One daughter, Eva Jean Scruggs, and one grandson, preceded her in death.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Robinson Funeral Home, Ashland. Marvine Tolle and Wallace Johnson will officiate. Burial will be in New Salem Cemetery, Ashland.
Visitation will be from 9:30-11 a.m. Thursday.
O'BRIANT
Services were Tuesday for Douglas James O'Briant II, 29, St. Robert, who died April 5, 2002.
He was born July 29, 1972, in Lapeer, Mich., a son of Douglas J. and Deborah Guzowski O'Briant. His father survives in Holts Summit and his mother survives in St. Robert. He was married in May 1996, in Jefferson City, to Karen Catlow, who survives in Jefferson City.
He attended schools all over the United States and graduated from high school in Germany. He worked for the Missouri Department of Corrections as a corrections officer. He was a member of the Grace Covenant Christian Center in Buckhorn.
Other survivors include: one son, Douglas O'Briant III, Jefferson City; one sister, Brandy Cox, Colorado Springs, Colo.; and maternal grandparents, Ronald and Virginia Guzowski, Metamora, Mich.
Services were at Waynesville Memorial Chapel. Pastor Judi Tillett officiated. Burial was in Waynesville Memorial Park Cemetery.
Memorials are suggested in memory of Douglas James O'Briant II.
KINCAID
Virginia Kyle Kincaid, 77, Jefferson City, died April 9, 2002, at St. Marys Health Center.
She was born Sept. 5, 1924, in Ray County, a daughter of Wilburn M. and Anna Laura Beckner Windsor. She was married Dec. 17, 1944, in Richmond, to John H. Kincaid, who died Aug. 8, 1998.
A graduate of Richmond High School, she was a former officer of Exchange Bank of Richmond. She moved to Jefferson City in 1973 and was a bank investments officer with the Missouri State Treasurer's Office until retiring in 1994.
She was a member of First United Methodist Church of Jefferson City, where she was active in the United Methodist Women and the Ruth Circle. She served on the boards of the Methodist Church in Richmond, Marshall and Jefferson City.
Survivors include: one son, Royce Johnson Kincaid, Middleburg, Va.; one daughter, Johnna Kyle Kincaid, Houston, Texas ; two sisters, Sarah Russell, Richmond, and Ruth Wormsley, North Kansas City; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
One daughter, Janet Catherine Kincaid, preceded her in death.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Freeman Mortuary. The Rev. Mark West will officiate. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Saturday.
Memorials are suggested to the Youth Workcamp at First United Methodist Church.
