Reba Sigler

Funeral services for Reba Sigler, 95, Moody, Missouri, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, February 16, 2024, in the Rose Chapel at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.    

On February 11th, 2024, Heaven gained another angel.

Reba Mae Eagleman Sigler was born November 20, 1928 at Leota, Missouri to Edward and Ella Eagleman, #7 of 12 children. The Eagleman family all laughed easily and had beautiful laughter in the home. Reba was always easy to laugh, making her loved by all. Her sisters were her best friends. She enjoyed some special trips to Branson and Hawaii with her sisters and an Alaskan cruise with her brother, sisters, their spouses and nephew. Reba graduated from Bakersfield High School at age 16, skipping a grade in elementary school by listening to the older students’ lessons. On January 16th, 1947, she married for life the love of her life Herbert Sigler at Sturkie, Arkansas; and they were in love together on earth for 61 years, until Herb passed away in 1998. Herb and Reba had four children: Joyce (Chuck) Helt, Ballwin, Missouri; Kathy (Vernon) Long, Caulfield, Missouri; Dennis (Pam) Sigler, Whitesboro, Texas; Vicki (Steve) Myer, Overland Park, Kansas. Also, among those missing Reba are her 13 grandchildren: Kris Hoelscher, Kurtis Hall, Melynni Yarber, Amanda McMillon, Jake Long, Julie Parker, Melissa Sigler, Mindy Collier, Mark Sigler, Mary Beth Ellis, Brett Myer, Katie Laughlin, Adam Myer; 3 step-grandchildren: Heidi Ramspott, Washington, MO; Scott Helt, Ballwin, MO; Brian Helt, St. Louis, MO; sisters: Lu Harper, Ocala, FL; Wilma (Houston) Boyd of Odessa, MO, and brother Joe (Doris) Eagleman of Lawrence, KS, numerous nieces and nephews, and dear friends across the nation.

Reba and Herb moved to Kansas City in 1953 and raised their kids there. Reba worked at Shalinsky Drug Store in Kansas City, Kansas for several years. In 1969, she went to work as a physician’s assistant for about six years for Dr. Jim Holleman. In 1977, they moved back to the farm at Moody, Missouri, where she briefly worked at Burton Creek Medical Clinic. Herb and Reba were active members of Argentine Church of Christ while living in Kansas City, KS and Prairie Grove Church of Christ in Howell County, Missouri. They made many lifelong special friends from church throughout their lives, including making a trip to Holy Lands with a church group. Reba’s favorite hobbies were reading, sewing, quilting, and playing cards. She and her brothers, Roy and John, and sisters, Grace and Fern, treasured their card playing friends at Moody Community Building on Friday nights for years. She was a member of the Moody Helping Hands Club and Leota Friendly Neighbors Club helping quilt many quilts to be donated at the Free Union Cemetery auction. She especially enjoyed gifting special handmade quilts to her children and grandchildren. Lately a favorite pastime was trying to win at card games and dominoes, which she usually did win. She was a great cook and seamstress. She was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

Greeting her in heaven were her loving husband, Herb Sigler, her parents, Ed and Ella Eagleman, her brothers: Edwin, Allen, Virgil, Roy, Ralph, John, her sisters: Grace Mahan and Fern Harber. We will always remember, love, and miss her ability to enjoy telling jokes, stories, and laughing with family and friends.

Visitation services will be held from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m., Thursday, at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.  Burial will be at Free Union Cemetery.  Memorial contributions may be made to Christian Family Services or Crowley’s Ridge Academy and may be left at or mailed to Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, 211 West Main, West Plains, MO  65775.