Virginia ‘Grammer’ Landreth-Kritz, 92, Ozark, formerly of Neosho, died on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at Cox South in Springfield, following a one-week illness. 

Virginia was born Aug. 21, 1915 in Newtonia. She graduated from Midway High School, where she played girls basketball and  was instrumental in the organization of the original ‘Gidgets’ softball team and in organizing the Neosho Girls Softball League.
Following graduation from Midway, she attended and graduated from cosmetology school in Springfield. She worked at the former Sale Memorial Hospital clerical department, the deli at Foodtown Grocery in Joplin and then at Sunbeam in Neosho, retiring in 1986 and moving to the Springfield area in 1992 from Neosho. She was a member of Northside Baptist Church.

She is survived by a daughter, Anita Goodwin Peck-Smith and husband, Sam, Springfield; granddaughter, Jymi Peck-Neidig and husband, Gerry, Ozark; and three great-grandsons, Jakob, Josh and Jonah Neidig. 

In addition to her parents, Albert and Rhoda (Boston) Landreth, she was preceded in death by four brothers, Virgil, Joe, Price and Pete Landreth; and five sisters, Irene Farley, Ruth McFall, Mary Patterson, Donna McConnell and Eugenia Lowry. 

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Clark Funeral Home Chapel in Granby, with burial in the Newtonia IOOF Cemetery. Family will serve as pallbearers.

Friends may call after 9 a.m. Friday at the Clark Funeral Home, Granby and the family will receive friends Friday from 1 p.m until service time at the funeral home. 

Contributions in memory of Virginia may be made to the Ronald McDonald House of Springfield, MO, c/o Clark Funeral Home, PO Box 26, Granby, 64844,

Online condolences may be posted at www.clarkfuneralhomes.com.

Arrangements are under the direction of Clark Funeral Home, Granby.