Dorothy Elizabeth (Farley) Culp, 95, of Warrensburg, Missouri, died Tuesday, Dec. 15, at Western Missouri Medical Center.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 18, at the First United Methodist Church in Warrensburg with the Rev. Louie Lowe officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday at the church.
She was born March 31, 1920, in Green Ridge, Missouri, the daughter of William Earl and Myrtle L. (Purchase) Farley.
She graduated from Green Ridge High School in 1938 and obtained her teaching certificate from Central Missouri State Teachers College. She taught school at La Monte in Pettis County. She was magistrate and probate division clerk for Johnson County for 19 years.
She married Clarence Ross Culp on Aug. 23, 1941, in Sedalia, Missouri. To the union two sons were born.
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Warrensburg.
Survivors include two sons, John E. Culp and wife, Cathy, of Warrensburg; and Ron Culp and wife, Linda, of Overland Park, Kansas; four grandchildren, Erin Leonard and husband, Craig, of Roeland Park, Kansas; Brett Culp and wife, Keziah, of Overland Park; Evan Culp, of Overland Park; and John David Culp and wife, Stephanie, of Warrensburg; three great-grandchildren, Dayln Culp and Ashlyn Culp, of Warrensburg; and Vivian Leonard, of Roeland Park; two stepgrandsons, Bryan McGraw, of Warrensburg; and Jeremy McGraw, of Cabot, Arkansas; two stepgreat-granddaughters, Selah Kilgore, of Warrensburg; and Mercedes McGraw, of Yorktown, Indiana; a niece, Jill Bruns, and husband, Mike, of Houston, Texas; and a nephew, Dale Ulmer, and wife, Kathy, of Mobile, Alabama; and a sister, Geneva Ulmer, and husband, Russell, of Houston, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her husband, a granddaughter, Laura Leigh (Culp) Botgat, and a daughter-in-law, Sandy Culp.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the First United Methodist Church of Warrensburg or UCM Athletics and can be left in care of Sweeney-Phillips & Holdren Funeral Home in Warrensburg.
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