John Calvert

JOHN PAUL CALVERT, SR. John P. Calvert, Sr. passed away on Sunday, October 14, 2012 just forty-four days short of his eightieth birthday of November 27, 1932 after a lingering illness. John was born the son of John and Sarah Pearl Easter Calvert. He was raised in Bonne Terre, Missouri where he met and married his wife Barbara Marler Calvert. They were the parents of four biological children, John Calvert, Jr., Pamela Nanni, Sarah Decker and Vicki Lehman and an adopted daughter Charmaine Jarvis. John was a Christian man of the Baptist faith and saved and baptized at the age of twenty years. John worked construction in the field of drilling and blasting. After many years of experience with other companies in the field as a foreman and office management, he and Barbara incorporated a drilling and blasting business of their own by the name of American Stone Company, Inc. They worked together on road and highway jobs and rock quarries in the Southwestern corner of the state of Missouri. They made their home together in Bonne Terre and the surrounding Lead Belt Area until moving to Union, Missouri in 1960 for thirty-six years and where all five children graduated high school. In 1996, after he and Barbara retired, they moved and made their home in Camdenton, Missouri for sixteen years before his death. John was preceded in death by his parents, John and Pearl Calvert; a daughter, Vicki Lynne Lehman and a step-great grandson, Dallas Henrickson. He is survived by his wife of sixty-two years, Barbara and a grandson, Gregory Jarvis of the home; one sister, Betty Jane Rajai and nieces and nephews of Holt Summit, Missouri; his children, John Calvert, Jr. and wife Jenny of Missouri City, Texas, Pamela Nanni and husband Jeffrey of Harrison Township, Michigan, Sarah Decker and husband William of Lake Ozark, Missouri and Charmaine Jarvis of Holts Summit, Missouri; a son-in-law, Robert Lehman, of Evansville, Indiana; ten grandchildren; six step-grandchildren; nineteen great grandchildren and nine step-great-grandchildren all of Texas, Michigan, Indiana and Missouri. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 17, 2012 in Allee-Holman-Howe Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Allee Memorial Gardens, Camdenton. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m., Tuesday in the funeral home. Memorial donations may be made to Franklin County Baptist Association and left at the funeral home. Allee-Holman-Howe Funeral Home of Camdenton is assisting the family with arrangements.