Marion D. Chrisman, Warsaw

Marion D. Chrisman, 67, of Warsaw, died Sunday morning, June 1, 2008, at his home near Warsaw.

He was born on April 8, 1941, in Trenton, a son of Marion Frances and Mildred Simms Chrisman. On July 22, 1998, at the lake, he was married to Yvonne Davis, who survives of the home.

He was raised in the Larado, Gault and Trenton area. He joined the Navy in May 1958 and was honorably discharged in March 1962. 

He moved to Shawnee, Kan., where he got a job for a truck line. He then was a carpenter doing general construction and remodels. His love of fishing and boating brought him to the Warsaw area and Lake of the Ozarks in 1997. He retired in 2001. He was a member of American Legion Post 217 of Warsaw.

Also surviving are three sons, Harold Chrisman, and his wife, Kim, and Buddy Chrisman, all of Richmond, and Charles Chrisman, and his wife, Shinobu, of Gresham, Ore.; two stepsons, Frank O’Bryan, of Gardener, Kan., and Richard Wayne, of Branson; a sister, Shirley Hartford; four grandchildren; five stepgrandchildren; and a stepgreat-grandchild.

He was predeceased by his parents and a sister, Thelma Ward.

Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Higginsville, with military rites at graveside. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Reser Funeral Home in Warsaw.

Condolences may be left online at www.reserfuneralhome.com.