of the Maryville area, passed away on Monday, February 9, 2015, at the Mosiac Life Care, in St. Joseph, Missouri, after a brief battle with cancer. Dean was born on September 12, 1934, in Hopkins, Missouri, to Herbert Lee and Pearl (West) Gard. He graduated from Horace Mann High School in 1952. Dean married Alice L. Collins on October 4, 1953, at the Skidmore Missouri Christian Church, they …

