Bennie Plunk

CAMPBELL -- Bennie Leon Plunk, 63, died Jan. 15, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

Born June 30, 1945, at Toccopola, Miss., to the late George Edward Plunk and Vallie Louise Snider Plunk Inmon, he had been employed at Noranda Aluminum. He was a U.S. Navy veteran serving during the Vietnam War and a member of the American Legion in Malden.

On July 12, 2003, at Clarkton, he married Debra Diane Warren, who survives of the home.

Other survivors include: two sons, Benjamin Plunk of Aurora and Christopher Plunk of Gary, Ind.; one daughter, Amy Plunk of Springfield; one stepdaughter, Donielle Merciel of Campbell; four brothers, Joe Plunk of Central City, Ky., Ed White of Rockford, Ill., Jake Wade of St. Louis and Gary Wade of Blytheville, Ark.; four sisters, Susan Gjersten of Woodberry, Minn., Becky Pytlik of Mokena, Ill., and Tina Plunk and Kim Keirsey of Dexter; his stepmother, Flo Plunk of Dexter; and two grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Charles Plunk and Ronnie Wade; and his stepfather, Toy Inmon.

Visitation is from 10 a.m. until time of services at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The Rev. Mark Powell will officiate.

Burial with full military rites will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Missouri Veteran's Cemetery in Bloomfield.