Louise Lavon Cline

Funeral services for Louise Lavon Cline, 95, West Plains, Missouri, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the Rose Chapel at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.  

Mrs. Cline passed away Friday, May 2, 2025, at West Plains, Missouri.

She was born December 26, 1929, at Greer, Missouri, to Carl Bates and Pearl Bell Bates.  On June 9, 1949, she was married at Salem, Arkansas, to Harry (Gene) Cline, who preceded her in death on November 26, 2013.  Louise enjoyed gardening, stock car racing, reading her Bible and going to church. She loved her family and she loved Christ.

She is survived by two children, Donna Jackson, Springfield, Missouri and Steve Cline, West Plains, Missouri; three grandchildren, Scott Cline and wife, Tasha, Michelle Hammond and husband, J.D. and Staci Quintana and husband, Richard; four great-grandchildren, Jessica Hammond, Morgan Hodges, Sutton Cline and Silas Cline; two brothers, Don Shehorn and wife, Marylea and Ron Shehorn; and many nieces and nephews.

Her parents, husband, one great-grandson, Jacob Hammond, one sister, Bonnie Ross, one daughter-in-law, Linda Cline and one son-in-law, Russ Jackson, preceded her in death.  

Visitation will be held from 1:00 until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.  Burial will be at Elk Creek Cemetery.  Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, and may be left at or mailed to Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, 211 W. Main St., West Plains, Missouri.