LaVerne Ida (Torstrick) Drummond, 83, Platte City, died Thursday, Oct. 11, 2001, at a health-care center in Platte City.
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Funeral services for LaVerne Drummond, formerly of Coffey and Jameson, were held Saturday at McWilliams Family Funeral Home in Gallatin. Burial was at Hillcrest Cemetery, Gallatin.
Memorials may be made to the First Baptist churches at Jameson and Dearborn in care of the funeral home, 1329 W. Grand Ave., Gallatin, 64640.
LaVerne Ida (Torstrick) Drummond, 83, Platte City, died Thursday, Oct. 11, 2001, at a health-care center in Platte City.
Born in Louisville, Ky., Mrs. Drummond was reared there and graduated from the Shawnee Girls High School.
Mrs. Drummond worked in the foundry core room of the American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp. after high school graduation. She also was a substitute clerk and typist for more than six years. She was a typist for the USDA Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service office at Gallatin until retiring in 1980. She also worked in the cafeteria of the Jameson school.
She and her husband, Robert, owned and operated a garage and welding shop, and farmed in Jameson.
Mrs. Drummond was a member of the First Baptist Church, Jameson, where she was a former young people’s Sunday School teacher and Sunday School pianist. Later she moved her membership to the First Baptist Church in Dearborn. She was a former member of the Woodland
Avenue Presbyterian Church, where she was a Sunday School teacher and Bible School pianist.
On May 12, 1943, she married Robert H. Drummond in Bethany. They moved to Coffey, in 1945 and Jameson in 1948. He died in 1995.
Mrs. Drummond also was preceded in death by three brothers, Carroll, Roy and Norvin Torstrick; and a sister, Ogilvia Staab.
Surviving include a daughter, Linda Kay Landes, Dearborn; two sons, Robert H. Jr., Grandview, and Paul David, New Hampton; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.