Nona Mae Morgan Todd, age 98, of Columbia, died Sunday, December 27, 2020, at The Neighborhoods at Tiger Place.

Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 29, at First Baptist Church in Otterville, where the family will receive friends beginning at 1:30. Burial will follow at the Mt. Nebo Church Cemetery.

Memorials are suggested to the church or the Alzheimer’s Association.

Meisenheimer Funeral Home in Otterville is in charge of the arrangements.

Nona was born October 12, 1922, in Paragould, Arkansas, to Eula Lee Gragg Morgan and Burrell Alfred Morgan. She graduated in 1940 from Paragould High School with a diploma in piano and attended Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. On August 26, 1944, she was married to Lt. JG Jack Branham Todd of Pilot Grove, Missouri, at the First Baptist Church, Cocoa, Florida, by the Reverend James A. Sawyer. Nona was preceded in death by her husband in 2000; daughter Cathy Susan Todd in 1964; son Jack Branham Todd, Jr. in 2007; and grandson Adam Joseph Garb in 2013. Her sister, Elizabeth Morgan Ebersole, and brother, Harold Gragg Morgan, also preceded her in death.

Nona retired from Civil Service in 1983 after 23 years of service, primarily at Whiteman Air Force Base. An excellent cook and seamstress, Nona’s greatest pleasure was in loving and providing for her family. Nona also taught a Sunday School class for several years and served as church organist for 30 years until she moved to Columbia in 2003.

Nona is survived by her son James F. Todd of Ft. Worth, Texas; daughter Peggy Nichols (Ken) of Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas; and daughter Candace Garb (Jim) of Columbia, Missouri. Also surviving are eight grandchildren; Susan Todd, Michael Todd (Nicole), John Mark Todd, Christopher Nichols (Teresa), Jay Nichols (Elizabeth), Carrie Worn (David), Amy Riley (Jeff), Edwin Garb, 12 great-grandchildren, her sister-in-law, Martha Morgan of Paragould, Arkansas, three nieces, and two nephews.