Larison, Terry L. 1950-2025 Sheridan, Mo.

SHERIDAN, Mo. – Terry Loyd Larison was Opal Faye (Gartside) Larison and Loyd Larison’s late in life child. The happy couple planned on having a little dark-haired daughter following a baby-sitting stint with their niece. So, on May 2, 1950, Opal gave birth to their blonde-headed baby boy of which they were so proud of. He never called them mom and dad but Opal and Loyd and when he was lost at the Iowa State Fair, the officers could not understand why he wasn’t asking for his mom and dad but instead for Opal and Loyd.

Terry was the youngest of three brothers and did his best to follow in his older brothers’ footsteps. He really loved it when his brother, Gary, came home for visits because he would follow them up with the treasure hunt for Gary’s lost change in the sofa. Their friends became Terry’s friends and all would teach Terry about the world.

Terry married Tara Jan Constant in 1975 and they had their own little blond-haired boy, Clint T. Larison. They could not agree on the middle name, so they just used T.

In 1987 at the Sheridan Centennial, Terry reconnected with Janet Wake and they were together ever since. They married in 1990 and in 1993 they gave birth to their own dark-haired baby girl, Teri Leigh Larison. She became their constant companion and when she left for college, Terry informed Janet that they could no longer eat out because Teri Leigh was not there.

Janet and Terry felt that God always meant for them to be together. They really figured no one else could handle them.

Terry considered himself an entrepreneur. He liked the sound of the word and he never settled down to just one way to make a living. He farmed, worked construction, hauled machinery, sold and hauled wood, bought and sold machinery, worked for two auctioneers (Jerry Davis and Jim Merrigan), bought and sold farms and finally raised cattle. One of his real loves was classic cars; he really loved the ones he found in a ditch and sold to someone else to restore.

Terry was preceded in death by his parents; his brothers; and mother-in-law.

He is survived by his son, Clint T. Larison; and his daughter, Teri Leigh Larison. He is also survived by Clint’s wife Angela; Clint’s daughter, Allison; and her daughter, Olivia; and Clint’s son, Troop. He is survived by many friends, including but not limited to his “son” Henry Rowen and his “daughter” Amber Walker.

Janet remains in their home with their cat that Terry came to love named Firefly.

Graveside funeral services will be held on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. at 2 p.m. at the Sheridan Cemetery- Vanskyock Addition, Sheridan, under the direction of the Prugh-Dunfee Funeral Home, Grant City Missouri. As published in the St. Joseph News-Press.