Mrs. Salmons enjoyed puzzles, going to Wal-Mart, spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren, watching television, especially Westerns, and talking on the phone with friends. She was a Baptist.
Surviving are a son, Leonard Salmons, and wife, Gay Lynn, of Smithton; three daughters, Vickie Perry, and husband, Jesse, Lucy Craig, and husband, Gary, and Janice Littlepage, and husband, Jimmie, all of Sedalia; nine grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; and three sisters, Annie Craig, Ellen Brosch and Lorene Weatherby, all of Sedalia.
She was predeceased by a granddaughter, Christinya Salmons; a great granddaughter, Shawna Fox; two brothers, Harl Ford and Leonard Ford; and four sisters, Hazel Bryant, Lelia Gerken, Goldie Seigler and Irene Petree.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, at Heckart Funeral Home, with the Rev. Tony Chapman officiating.
Casket bearers will be James Hill, Michael Studt, Steve Proffit, Michael Burdick, Scott Venable and Bobby Craig.
Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions are suggested to Bothwell Hospice.
Edith Virginia "Nookie" Salmons, 78, of Sedalia, died Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, at Bothwell Regional Health Center.
She was born May 11, 1930, in Longwood, Missouri, a daughter of Arthur Albert and Carrie Frances Neitzert Ford. On Nov. 18, 1948, in Harrison, Arkansas, she was married to Calvin T. Salmons, who died April 1, 2000.
