Carol Sue Cunningham, 79, of Kirksville, Missouri, formerly of Memphis, Missouri, died February 19, 2025 at St. Luke’s Hospice Home in Kansas City. She was born the daughter of Kyril Kenneth and Mildred Iris (Lane) Cunningham on August 13, 1945.
Carol was a 1963 graduate of Memphis High School. She attended one year of college at Truman University and then married and moved to Kansas City. She had one son who died in infancy. Carol then moved to St. Louis where she could be near her parents and sister.
Carol moved frequently and lived in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, and Maine, where she most felt at home. She returned to Missouri in 2006 and lived in Knox City, MO until the last two or three years of her life when she moved to Kirksville, MO.
Carol was preceded in death by her parents, an infant son, and cousins Hazel Bradley of Colorado Springs, Colorado and Barbara Smith of Memphis, MO.
She is survived by her sister, Jane Cunningham Woods of Bowling Green, MO; her niece, Stefanie Davis of Bowling Green, a grandniece, a grandnephew, several cousins, and her very dear friend, Robin Wadsworth of Friendship, Maine.
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