Funeral services for Mary Ann Addison, 84, of Strafford, will be at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024 in the Chapel of Greenlawn Funeral Home East. Visitation will be from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Friday, January 26, 2024 in the Parlor of Greenlawn Funeral Home East.

Following directly after the funeral service, interment will take place at Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Springfield.

Born on March 5, 1939 in Hazlegreen, Mo., she was the oldest child of Clarence and Lorene Pryer. A graduate of Stoutland High School, she earned an Associates Degree from Southwest Baptist University.

She worked as an Administrative Assistant at both Fort Leonard Wood, Southwest Baptist University and later with Methodist Hospital System in San Antonio, Texas.

She married Martin Addison on March 18, 1961, at First Baptist Church in Stoutland, and she remained faithful to her Southern Baptist faith, being a member of First Baptist Church of Strafford after she moved back to her home state from Texas.

She died on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield.

She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Debbie and Terry Harden of Strafford and Doris and Paul Keane of Waynesboro, Miss.; her sister, Betty Breiding of Strafford; five grandchildren and their respective spouses, Kelly Ann and William Lawrence Taylor II, Steven and Madison Keane, Jason Harden and Lindsay and Chris Thompson and Sarah Jane Hughes; and six great-grandchildren, William Lawrence III, Henry Louis and Loralei Taylor, Preston Harden, Jaelynn Young and Easton Thompson.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Martin Addison; her parents, Clarence and Lorene Pryer; her brother, Jimmy Pryer; a grandson, Christopher Keane and a brother-in-law, Robert Breiding, Sr.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorials be made in memory of Mary Ann Addison to Chaplain’s Well, ℅ Army Credit Union, Warehouse Avenue, Building 89, Hattiesburg, MS 39407 -which benefits members of the 114th Mississippi Army National Guard, her late grandson’s Regiment.

An online guestbook can be signed at www.greenlawnfuneralhome.com.  Greenlawn Funeral Home East of Springfield is in charge of arrangements.