Margaret Juan Mauss

JUAN MAUSS Margaret Juan Mauss, daughter of Arthur Paul and Mayme Ethel Shockley Baughman, was born, June 25, 1931 in Sagrada, Missouri. She departed this life, Wednesday, February 25, 2015, in Lake Regional Hospital, Osage Beach, Missouri at the age of eighty-three years and eight months. On May 20, 1953 in Versailles, Missouri, she was united in marriage to Louis Dean Mauss and to this union two sons were born. Together they shared sixty-one years of marriage. She was preceded in death by her parents; and three brothers, Jackie Cole, Hal and Albert Baughman. Survivors include her husband, Dean Mauss of Climax Springs, Missouri; two sons, Mark Mauss and wife Mary Ann of Bois D'Arc, Missouri and Daniel Mauss and wife Irene of Climax Springs, Missouri; four grandchildren, Martha Mauss of Dallas, Texas, Matthew Mauss and wife Kate of Severn, Maryland, Justin Mauss and Jamie Mauss both of Bois D’Arc, Missouri and a host of other relatives and many friends. Juan was born in the middle of the Great Depression. Life during this time was very difficult in rural Missouri on the Lake of the Ozarks. Her family had to live mostly off the land and the lake. Medical care was nearly nonexistent. Malaria was a common occurrence two or three times each summer for each member of the family. Transportation was nearly nonexistent. Communication was a three mile walk away to the mail box. Proper nutrition was nearly nonexistent. Her parents lost two of their four children before they were in grade school. After all of this, when Margaret turned ten years old she then was living during a World War. She is a part of the Greatest Generation that stayed at home and supported people like her older brother who went to the War. After graduation from Climax Springs High School, as Valedictorian in 1949, she attended Central Missouri State in Warrensburg, Missouri. Shortly thereafter, she began her teaching career in a one-room school house where she had also went to grade school located in the Cable Ridge/Lick Creek area. She retired in 1994 after twenty-seven years of teaching in the Climax Springs School District. She and Dean lived in Kansas City for a few years and the family moved back to rural Climax Springs in August 1967 and have lived there ever since. She loved to cook for her family. She always enjoyed Christmas as a child and for the rest of her life. She was very proud of her four grandchildren and their success in their careers and their academics. She was very proud of her oldest granddaughter’s success as an executive for Gold’s Gym in the Dallas, Texas corporate office. Granny very much loved the union of marriage of her oldest grandson with the former Kate Hubbell. She very much enjoyed attending the Ash Grove High School Lady Pirates Volleyball and Basketball games the past four years and supporting the Championship runs those teams had during the time her youngest granddaughter played. Her youngest grandson is pursuing a career in teaching. Granny very much enjoyed the times he showed his Angus cattle at the Ozark Empire Fair and the State Fair. Margaret made a profession of faith and was a member of Lake Presbyterian Church, Osage Beach. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., March 4, 2015 in Allee-Holman-Howe Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Grainger Cemetery, Climax Springs. Visitation will be from 12-2 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. Memorial donations may be made to Climax Springs Alumni Scholarship Fund and left at the funeral home. Allee-Holman-Howe Funeral Home of Camdenton is assisting the family with arrangements.