Kristi Jo Stanford Altman, daughter of Vickie Asbell Stanford McClard of Dexter, Missouri, and the late Ronnie Stanford, was born on August 28, 1971, in Dexter and departed this life on June 6, 2022, at her residence in Dexter at the age of 50 years.
Following in her father’s footsteps, Mrs. Altman worked at the Stoddard County Sheriff’s Department and the City of Bernie Police Department as a dispatcher, along with being a former radio announcer for KDEX. Being a member of the Bernie Church of Christ, Kristi was a woman of faith who often helped those in need. With her wonderful smile and attitude, Kristi was a courageous fighter of metastatic breast cancer for 6 years and nine months.
On June 18, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nevada, she was united in marriage to Greg Altman. Mr. Altman survives of their home in Dexter.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by her daughter, Victoria Hockman of Fort Myers, Florida, by her mother and step-father, Vickie and Curtis McClard of Dexter, Missouri; by her sister, LaRhonda Billingsley and husband David of Dexter, Missouri; by her step-son, Gregory Altman of Dexter, Missouri; by two nephews, Eric Billingsley and Aaron Billingsley; by her great nephew, Brayden Billingsley, by her great niece, Adalyn Jo Billingsley; by two uncles, Rod Asbell and wife Kay of Dexter, Missouri, and Gary Stanford of Cape Girardeau, Missouri.; and by many cousins and friends.
Other than by her father, she was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents A. E. and Joy Stanford; by her maternal grandparents, Alfred and Margaret Asbell; by her step-grandparents, Curtis and Dorothy McClard; and by the father of her daughter, Terry E. Hockman Jr.
Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Friday, June 10, 2022. Interment followed in the Chalk Bluff Cemetery.
Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter assisted with arrangements.