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Rita Clara Kluesner

Name: Visitation
Start: 11/04/2013 04:00 PM
End: 11/04/2013 08:00 PM
Location: Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel

May 9, 1932 — November 1, 2013

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Visitation

Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel - Chaffee

Monday, November 4, 2013

4:00 - 8:00 pm (Central time)

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Parish Prayer Service

Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel - Chaffee

Monday, November 4, 2013

Starts at 7:00 pm (Central time)

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Funeral Mass

St. Ambrose Catholic Church

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Starts at 10:00 am (Central time)

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Interment

St. Ambrose Cemetery

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

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Rita Clara Kluesner

Rita Clara Kluesner, 81, of Chaffee died Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 9, 1932, in Kelso, to Paul and Anna Scherer Glastetter. She and Alfred Joseph Kluesner were married June 25, 1955. She was a member of St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Chaffee, Daughters of St. Ambrose, Ladies Auxiliary V.F.W. of Chaffee, and volunteered at the Chaffee Nutrition Center. Survivors include her husband, Alfred Kluesner of Chaffee; five daughters, Charlotte (Rick) Whitworth, Nancy (Raymond) Spies, Betty ( Lary) Glaus, Marlene (Lee) Powers all of Chaffee, Pat Fisher of Benton; two brothers, John Glastetter of Scott City and Sylvester Glastetter of Kelso; three sisters, Helen Vandeven of Leopold, Coletta Neff of Waterloo, IL and Bertha Seyer of Dutchtown; 17 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and two sisters. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m Monday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. Parish prayers will be at 7:30 p.m. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Ambrose Church, with the Rev. Randy Tochtrop as celebrant. Burial will be in St. Ambrose Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial may be given to St. Jude Children's Hospital or Breast Cancer Foundation.

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