William Thayer “Skip” Stalnaker of
Springfield, Missouri, Class of 1958, former executive director of the
Springfield, Missouri Boys & Girls Club, passed away Wednesday, June 12.
His wife, Barbara Annabelle Anderson Stalnaker, Class of 1960, passed
away in 2012. Her parents were Charles and Gladys Anderson. Skip and Barbara
were married August 6, 1960.
Their children are William Thayer Stalnaker II, Felicia Dawn Mackey, Tracy Lynn Adams and Joseph Carmine Stalnaker. They have eight grandchildren.
Their children are William Thayer Stalnaker II, Felicia Dawn Mackey, Tracy Lynn Adams and Joseph Carmine Stalnaker. They have eight grandchildren.
Gorman-Scharpf Funeral Home in Springfield handled Barbara’s
arrangements.
Skip was involved with the Boys Club
for 40 years and became executive director in 1983 and kept the position until
2002.
The Springfield Boys Club began in 1938 when it was founded by Jennie Lincoln, wife of Juvenile Court Judge A.W. Lincoln. Springfield got its national charter in 1946.
Chip was a
Fairmont State graduate who began his Springfield Boys Clubs association in
1962. Previously, Chip was Athletic Director in the Locust Valley, New York and
Omaha Boys Clubs, Executive Director in Jacksonville Beach Boys Club in Florida
and Unit Director in the Boys Club in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Other children of John
Alfred and Roxie Fay Jordon Stalnaker are
Rachel Vivian Stalnaker Sloan, Class of 1962; the late Dick Stalnaker, Class of 1965, who played both offense
and defense on Monongah High football teams, had a Four States construction
company and married Rose E. Martin Stalnaker; the late John A. Stalnaker and the late Wendell
Stalnaker.
Those who married into the Stalnaker
family included Marguerite Matthews
Stalnaker, Class of 1964; and Sandra Campbell Stalnaker, Class of 1965.
“Today is a very hard day for me. I lost my last brother
this morning. Everyone around here called him Skip.
“He was a good man who made a good impression on a lot of
people. He worked for Boys Clubs of America for more than 40 years. Young men
and women called him and visited him up until his passing.
“He will be greatly missed by a lot of people. I had four
brothers and now I have none.
“In the past 3 1/2 months he had suffered a lot but now
he's at peace and I for one will miss him so much. My heart is broken this
morning and so is his family is in Missouri.
“You all who knew him knew what kind of a man he was. Say a prayer for
him today and for the family.”
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