Laura Jean Dickens 64, Springfield, MO. passed away in her home, March 24, 2020. She was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on December 16, 1955, to Delmar and Pearl (Swafford) Stocker. She was a homemaker, who loved interior decorating, gardening, farming and sewing. She also loved reading, researching homeopathic medicine, shopping and thrift store shopping. Most of all, she loved spending time with her family and friends.
Laura was preceded in death by her parents, her two sisters: Vera Lingle and Susie Brinkman, and her three brothers: Bennie Tharp, Donnie Tharp, and Roy Tharp. She is survived by her husband: Bobbie Dickens, her four children: Lisa (Henry) Rauch, Marissa (Bodie) Wolfe, Bobbie Dickens II, and Rachel (Neal) Bowman, her nine grandchildren: Enrique, Lissette, Ethan, Audie, Vander, Katana, Isabel, Abigail, and Brooke, two sisters: Wanda (Gene) Hodges and Cathy Tharp, and one brother, Kenny (Pam) Tharp. Memorial Donations are suggested to the Shriners Children’s Hospital.
No services are planned at this time.