Winifred C. “Winnie” Allen Soper, age 95, of Slater, died Sunday, April 25, 2021, at the Legendary Nursing and Rehab Center in Marshall.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, April 30, at Slater Christian Church, with Dr. Michael Kateman officiating. Burial will follow at Slater City Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday at the church.
Memorials are suggested to the Slater Christian Church, in care of Weiker Funeral Home in Slater.
Born August 10, 1925 near Slater, she was the daughter of the late Edgar Elmore Allen and Onnie Jane Aregood Allen. On June 22, 1947 in Slater, she married Allen B. Soper, Jr., and he preceded her in death on March 22, 2006.
She is survived by four children, Meredith Allen Soper and his wife Barbara of Melrose Park, Illinois, Cherie Foresee of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, John Marshall Soper of Farmington Hills, Michigan, and Rodney Craig Soper of Lee’s Summit, Missouri; five grandchildren, Carla Wilson, Timothy Soper, Chad Foresee, Sarah Soper, and Rachel Morris; three great-grandchildren, Ainslie Wilson, Luca Morris, and Riannon Soper; two nieces, Elaine Edwards and her husband Jim, and Nancy Gaba; two nephews, Dean Page and his wife Margit, and Greg Gaba; and a number of great-nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by a sister, Dorothy Page and her husband Donald; two granddaughters, Carrie Ann Soper and Carrie Jane Foresee; and a son-in-law, Carl Foresee.
Mrs. Soper was a lifelong member of the Slater Christian Church, where she taught Sunday school for fifty years, and was a member of Christian Women’s Fellowship. She attended rural schools, and graduated from Slater High School in 1943. She attended the University of Central Missouri and Missouri Valley College, and taught in rural Saline County schools for four years prior to her marriage. As long as her children were in school, she was active with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. She was a member of the Vivian Lessley Study Club, Slater Garden Club, and was a sixty year member of the Daughters of the American Colonists.