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Ronald Ledbetter
Rev. Ronald L. Ledbetter, son of the late Hershel L. Ledbetter and Naomi Keith Ledbetter, was born Nov. 10, 1934, in Parma, Missouri, and departed this life May 22, 2024, at Cox South Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri, at the age of 89 years.
Rev. Ledbetter was a Veteran of the United States Navy. He was a minister for 50 plus years, he had sold insurance for Modern Woodmen, he was a former farmer, and a retired rural mail carrier. He pastored for 30 plus years at Clines Island Baptist Church, and he attended Olive Branch General Baptist Church in Essex. He enjoyed being on the farm watching his crops and cattle grow.
On Feb. 3, 1956, in Dexter, Missouri, he was united in marriage to Marian Beal. Mrs. Ledbetter survives of their home in Essex, Missouri.
Along with his wife, he is survived by his son, Phillip Ledbetter and wife, Nola, of Holts Summitt, Missouri; his daughter, Rhonda Ledbetter of Houston, Missouri; his brother, Gary Ledbetter of Ocala, Florida; and two granddaughters, Leah Ledbetter and Hannah Ledbetter and his great-granddaughter, Myra Austill.
Other than by his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Jimmy Ledbetter, and Doug Ledbetter and his sister, Phyllis Kaye Smith.
Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter May 28, 2024. Interment followed in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.
Memorials may be made to lifetoday.org.
Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter assisted with arrangements.