Wilma Pauline Mincks, daughter of the late Willis Eugene and Rosetta Etta (Gourley) Dudley was born April 2, 1949, in Niangua, Missouri, and passed away September 24, 2024, at Cox South Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri. She was 75 years, 5 months, and 22 days of age.
Pauline was the youngest of sixteen children. She grew up in Niangua and graduated from Niangua High School. She was united in marriage to James Alva Minks on February 24, 1968, and three children, Angie, Jeffery, and Lisa, were born to this union. She also gained two stepsons, Randal and Jimmy, with this union. Pauline and James had been married 56 years at the time of her passing.
Pauline was a housewife and enjoyed taking care of her family. She also loved going fishing and going to the mountains.
Besides her parents, Pauline was preceded in death by her stepson, Randal Mincks; six brothers, Ervin, Lester, Elmer, Melvin, Paul, and Pete; seven sisters, Lola, Eula, Elsie Mae, Dessie, Mary Lou, Anna, and Betty Jean.
She is survived by her husband, James Mincks of the home in Fordland, Missouri; her children, Angie Kelley and her husband, Jerry, of Pittsburg, Missouri, Jeffery Mincks and his wife, Melissa, and Lisa Holiday and her husband, Brian, all of Fordland; stepson, Jimmy Mincks of Seymour, Missouri; one brother, John Dudley and his wife, Connie, of Niangua, Missouri; one sister, Joyce Gibson and her husband, Larry, of Bella Vista, Arkansas; sixteen grandchildren, fourteen great-grandchildren and a host of family and friends who will miss her very much.
Memorial Contributions: In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions be made to the funeral home to help with funeral expenses.
