Visitation services for Lois Marie Gerber, 85, West Plains, Missouri, will be held from 5:00 until 7:00 P.M., Friday, April 5, 2013, at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.

Mrs. Gerber died at 3:28 p.m., Saturday, March 23, 2013, at Brooke Haven Health Care.

She was born May 7, 1927, in Kansas City, Missouri, to John Herbert Shepp and Edna Mae Smith Shepp.  She graduated from Central High School, Kansas City, Missouri and on June 23, 1945, was married at Harper, Kansas, to Marion E. Gerber, who preceded her in death December 17, 2004.  She worked as a receptionist and bookkeeper for Dr. Jack Wiles for twenty-three years.  Mrs. Gerber was of the Methodist faith.

She is survived by two children, David Gerber, wife, Carolyn, West Plains, Missouri and Richard Gerber, wife, Debbie, Cooperstown, New York; four grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and one sister, Dottie Webb, New Bern, North Carolina.

Her parents, husband, one infant son, Dan Gerber, one sister, Mina Ruth Robb and one brother, Jack Shepp, precede her in death.