Obituary update - Fern Durst

Funeral services for Fern Durst will be 3:30 p.m. Saturday, November 20, 2010 at Amsterdam Baptist Church in Amsterdam, Missouri with Rev. Bill Read and Pastor Larry Heenan officiating. Visitation will be prior to services from 2:30-3:30 p.m. at church. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Butler, Missouri. Contributions to Amsterdam Baptist Church for Kamp Keirsey or Ethiopia Mission Memorial.

Fern T. Durst, age 92 of Butler, Missouri, died November 12, 2010, at OSF St. Anthony’s Medical Center in Rockford, Illinois. She was born November 27, 1917, to Cecil and Bess Taylor in Belton, Missouri.


Fern was preceded in death by her husband, Aubrey D. Durst, Sr.; her father, Cecil Taylor; her mother, Bessie Taylor Pierce; her step-father, Harry Pierce; one sister, Fay Porter and husband, Kenneth; one brother-in-law, Marvin Durst and wife, Opal; and one nephew, Dick Porter. She is survived by one son, Aubrey “Dean” Durst, Jr. and wife, Julia of Caledonia, Illinois; one daughter, Pamela Sue Woods and husband, Steve of Amsterdam, Missouri; four grandchildren—Sandra Durst and Julianna Durst of Rockford, Illinois; Vance Woods and wife, Tammy of Waco, Texas; Sara Bramsen and husband Andy of South Bend, Indiana; one great-granddaughter, Aravis Joy Bramsen of South Bend, Indiana; two nieces, Eileen Vannatta and husband, John of Leawood, Kansas and children John Murry, Jeff (wife, Christina), Jason, and Jennifer Fisher (husband, J.C.) and Sandy Wolfe of Harrisonville, Missouri and sons Michael and Scott.