WILLIAM WADE BLEVINS OF NIXA, DIED ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2015 AFTER A LONG ILLNESS. HE WAS BORN OCTOBER 17, 1925 AT RIVERDALE, MO. TO FRED AND BESSIE (GLENN) BLEVINS. HE WAS A LIFELONG CHRISTIAN COUNTY RESIDENT. HE ATTENDED RIVERDALE BAPTIST CHURCH OF NIXA AND WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF FREMONT HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH WHERE HE LAST ATTENDED. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, AND INFANT BROTHER, GLEN, AND BROTHERS WARD AND GENE BLEVINS. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE OF 64 YEARS, JOAN. ONE SON, DAVID (BARBARA), OF SPRINGFIELD. A DAUGHTER, PHYLLIS (RICK) HENDERSON, OF TUNAS, MO. TWO GRANDSONS, KOI HENDERSON AND EVAN (CHASTITY) HENDERSON. THREE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, CHAYLA, KIMBER AND PRESLEY. ONE BROTHER, TOMMY OF SPRINGFIELD AND TWO SISTERS, VELMA SODEN OF SPRINGFIELD AND JANICE STEWART OF NIXA.
GRAVESIDE SERVICES WILL BE AT 10:30 AM, SEPTEMBER 9, AT GLENN CEMETERY, NIXA. NO VISITATION SERVICES ARE PLANNED. IN LIEU OF FLOWERS A DONATION CAN BE MADE TO THE FREMONT HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH OR GLENN CEMETERY. SERVICES HAVE BEEN ENTRUSTED TO GREENLAWN FUNERAL HOME SOUTH