Della Louise Dailey, age 85 of Springfield, MO, passed away peacefully on January 9, 2013 in Jordan Creek Nursing Home. She was born September 23, 1927 in Sarcoxie, MO to George and Alice Abbott.
Della graduated from Pierce City High School and served our country in the Army Cadet Nursing Corps at Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio, TX during WWII. She married Wilburn R. Dailey in August of 1950. She graduated from Burge School of Nursing and later retired as an LPN.
Della was preceded in death by her parents; husband; siblings, William and James and Phyllis Abbott and Mildred Perkins.
She is survived by two sons, Wilburn and wife Joan Debord and Wayne and wife Linda; grandchildren, Nicholas and Jeanne-Marie, Wayne Jr., and Angie and Mike and Rachel; great grandchildren, Regan, Cooper, Isaac and Lauren; siblings, George Abbott and Lucille Reeves;
numerous nieces, nephews and a host of friends.
Graveside services will be held on Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 3:00 p.m., in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be held in Greenlawn Funeral Home North one hour prior to the graveside service beginning at 2:00 p.m.