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Joe Allen Vinson, son of the late W.R. Vinson and Mary Taylor Vinson, was born on the family farm in Essex, Missouri, on July 5, 1932. He departed from this life on May 30, 2022, at Winchester Nursing Center in Bernie, Missouri, at the age of 89 years old.
Following four years of service in the United Stated Army, Joe received a Bachelors of Science degree in forestry at the University of thierr Missouri. It was there that he met Carol DeVinna, who would become his wife of 63 years.
After they wed on December 28, 1958, Joe and Carol returned home to Dexter, Missouri, where he joined his aunt and uncle in their family business and eventually became the owner of Chrisman Oil and Chrisman Art Gallery. It was this latter role that took him around the country in search of wildlife art and allowed him to work with many artists and other lovers of art.
Joe was an avid outdoorsman and lover of nature and could usually be found spending his free time hunting ducks with the family or fishing in his pond. Perhaps his greatest passion, however, was spending time with his family, whether it be at the family dinners he hosted for over 40 years, teaching his granddaughter the joys of fishing, or, as he often did later in life, sitting around his art gallery to visit with the many family members who stopped by each day.
He is survived by his wife, Carol Vinson; by his son, David Vinson and wife Victoria of Dexter, Missouri; by his daughter, Sherri Burleson and husband Terry of Dexter, Missouri; by his granddaughter, Claire Hazlett and husband Eric of Memphis, Tennessee; and by his great-grandson, Harrison James Hazlett; by two sisters, Marian Emerson and husband Don of Centerville, Missouri, and Ann Dubrouillet and husband Dave of Essex, Missouri; and by his brother-in-law, Alberto Wancel of St Louis, Missouri.
Joe was preceded in death by both of his parents and his beloved sister, Sue Wancel.
Memorials may be made to 18 Fore Life, c/o Scott Kruse, 705 Laurie Circle, Dexter, Missouri 63841, or St. Jude Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38101, in memory of Joe.
Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Thursday, June 2, 2022, from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel at 2:00 p.m. with Reverend Don Kennedy officiating. Interment will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.
Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter is assisting with arrangements.
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