Calvin McRoy

Calvin McRoy, son of the late Harvey Jackson and Martha Jennings McRoy, was born on February 25, 1925, in Bloomfield, Missouri and passed away at the Golden Living Center in Bloomfield, Missouri on August 1, 2012, at the age of 87 years, 5 months and 7 days. Calvin had lived in Bloomfield all of his life. He attended the General Baptist Church and was a veteran of the U. S. Army serving during WWII in Germany. He had been a truck driver with Cassens Transport. On October 4, 1947, he married Mildred Bowling in Piggott, Arkansas. Surviving are his wife, Mildred McRoy of Bloomfield, Missouri; two sons, Gene McRoy of Bloomfield, Missouri, Jim McRoy of Farmington, Missouri; two daughters, Sue Hampton of Bloomfield, Missouri, Mary Jines of Centralia, Missouri; eight grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; two sisters, Geraldine Harris of Bloomfield, Missouri, Vivian Patterson of Dexter, Missouri; two brothers, Ronnie McRoy of Bloomfield, Missouri and Don McRoy of Alton, Illinois. Other relatives and friends also survive. He was preceded in death by four sisters, Eileen Crowe, Velma Kingree, Wilma Handley, Virginia Hendrix, and two brothers, Alvin Sonny McRoy and H. M. McRoy. Friends may visit on Friday August 3, 2012, after 10:00 a.m. at the Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield. Funeral services will be held on Friday August 3, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. at the Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield with Refv. Dwight Hensley of Bloomfield, Missouri. Interment will be in the Missouri Veteran's Cemetery in Bloomfield, Missouri with full military honors, Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in charge of all arrangements.