The Joplin Globe - Online Edition
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Tuesday, January 11, 2000

Raymond Arnold Silvara

Raymond Arnold Silvara, age 78, former resident of the Highrise
Apartments, Fort Scott, KS, and currently of the Marmaton Valley Care
Center, Uniontown, died early Saturday, January 7, 2000, at Fort Scott
Mercy Hospital. He was born September 21, 1921, in Arnold NB, the son
of Perry and Leona Watt Silvara.


He worked as a pipe fitter for Daniel's Construction during the
building of Wolfe Creek Power Plant. Raymond was a veteran of the
United States Army serving during World War II. He was a member of the
Uniontown Missionary Baptist Church and was a charter member of the
Uniontown Puritan Club.


Survivors include two sons, Dennis Silvara, Milford, KS and David
Silvara, Fort Scott; one daughter, Diana Weston, San Antonio, TX; one
brother, Melvin Silvara, Orville, CA; and two sisters, Marquerite
Birkes, Hutchinson, KS and Harriett Housman of Grove, OK. Also
surviving are five grandchildren.


Rev. Gene Parker, Pastor of the First Missionary Baptist Church,
conducted graveside services at 11:00 a.m. Monday, January 10 in the
U.S. National Cemetery. Military Honors were conducted by the Olson
Frary Burkhart Post No. 1165 V.F.W. Services are under the direction
of Cheney Witt Memorial Chapel, 201 South Main, Fort Scott.