Barbara (Shaw) Vandevender

Barbara Vandevender, a 95 year old Trenton resident, passed away at 6:35 a.m., Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at Sunnyview Nursing Home of Trenton.

Funeral services are scheduled for 1:00 p.m., Thursday, January 9, 2025 at the First Baptist Church of Trenton.  Burial will follow in Resthaven Memorial Gardens.  A visitation is scheduled from 6:00 until 7:00 Wednesday evening at Resthaven Mortuary.

Barbara Vandevender was born December 4, 1929 in the Rabbit Ridge area near Edinburg, MO.  She graduated from Trenton High School, Trenton Junior College and Northeast Missouri State and received a Master’s degree in reading.  She was married to Delbert Lyle Vandevender and they became partners in farming.  Barbara started her teaching career at Williams one room school house and taught for 25 years at Princeton.  She received various awards in teaching and even spoke at a national teaching convention in South Dakota.  Most of her life was spent east of Spickard a mile south of the Mercer County Line near where her family settled in the 1850’s, but she traveled all over the United States including Alaska.  She also went to the holy lands and walked through Petra.  She was a member of the Trenton First Baptist Church.

Surviving relatives include her son James Vandevender of Cameron, MO; three grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, a son Lyle, and sister’s Mary Anderson and Nadine Bennett.

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