@Ann Shonert , Do/did you perhaps know the Lehman family? I don't recall the name of the town they lived in, but Springfield was the closest airport. They owned a hardware store in the area--Candice and Jim (who died of brain cancer a number of years ago). Welcome to the Forum!
@Ann Shonert Don't know how I missed this thread, but it hit home to see "Missouri Ozarks". Do you know of a little town named Bunker? Or, Doniphan, even further south, where my wife's grandparents lived and had a store. They also lived in Van Buren, where they ran a motel, long, long ago. I'll say more later, I'm squeamish about asking questions of others. My wife loved those Ozarks trips from Indiana as a kid, that we bought a farm there in 1999, and lived there 13 years, right in the middle of Mark Twain National Forest. Frank