New Hampton, MO: Juanita Ethelind (Thorne) Anthony, better known as “Kitty”, 92, New Hampton, MO passed away on Thursday, October 31, 2019 at Pineview Manor, Stanberry, MO.
She was born on February 12, 1927 in Little Silver, NJ, the daughter of Raymond Everett Thorne and Phebie Lydia (Cooper)(Hockenberry) Thorne.
On December 2, 1944, she married Robert Bryce Anthony who was in the Navy at that time.
Kitty worked many jobs starting at jacking up houses at the age of 16. She also worked as a waitress, worked at the Defense Plant during WWI in NJ and later she sold Avon, Fuller Brush, worked at the library at South Harrison Elementary School and cleaned houses when her husband got out of the Navy and they moved to Missouri.
Kitty was saved and baptized when she was nine years old in the Keansburg Methodist Church in New Jersey. Later she joined the Christian Church in Martinsville, MO with her two daughters receiving baptism again and changed her membership to New Hampton Methodist Church when she and her husband moved to New Hampton.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 69 years; her parents; brother, Raymond Thorne; half-brother, Fred Hockenberry and two half-sisters, Grace and Madeline Hockenberry.
Kitty is survived by her three children, Dawn Stevens and husband, Rex of New Hampton, MO, Loretta Winemiller and husband, Larry of Cameron, MO and Bob Anthony and wife, Cindy of New Hampton, MO; cousin, Patty Hajzer of Matawan, NJ; six grandchildren; six great grandchildren and two step great-grandchildren. Funeral Services with Order of Eastern Star Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, November 4 at Roberson Funeral Home, Bethany, MO. Burial will follow in Kidwell Cemetery, Martinsville, MO. The family will receive friends from 12:00-2:00 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Kidwell Cemetery, New Hampton Methodist Church, and/or Pineview Manor Activity Fund in care of Roberson Funeral Home, P.O. Box 46, Bethany, MO 64424. Online condolences may be left at www.robersonfuneralhome.com