Thursday 28th March 2024

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Zetta Faye Bradshaw, age 71, of Sedalia, died Thursday, March 11, 2021, at her home.

Funeral services will be held at 12 p.m. on Thursday, March 18, at McLaughlin Funeral Chapel in Sedalia, with Pastor Rodney Haggett officiating. Burial will follow at Crown Hill Cemetery, with Samuel E. Brummet, John R. Bakert. Jr., Mike J. Brummet, Danny E. Bakert, John Esther and James Fischer serving as pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. until service time at the funeral chapel.

Zetta was born April 14, 1949, in Sedalia, the daughter of the late Virgil M. and Marjorie M. (Elkins) Gearheart. She married James Bradshaw and he preceded her in death on June 30, 2017.

She attended school in Hughesville and was of the Baptist faith. She worked as a private nurse for numerous people in Pettis County, having a passion for the elderly. When she wasn’t caring for a patient she loved to sit on a creek bank and fish with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She is survived by two sons, Tommy Bakert and his wife Michelle of Wood River, Illlinois and John R. Bakert and his wife, Angelica of Lebanon; a daughter, Diana Brummet (Gregory Clark) of Sedalia; ten grandchildren: three great-grandchildren and a sister, Donna Spellmeyer of Sedalia. She was preceded in death by four brothers, Robert Gearheart, Mike Gearheart, Virgil Lee Gearheart and Danny Ray Gearheart.