Benita Ann Acock, 67 of Kingsville, Missouri passed away Saturday, October 28, 2017 at Research Medical Center in Kansas City.

Benita was born April 8, 1950 in Oscado, Michigan, daughter of Fred and Luella (Droomers) Simon. She married Kenneth F. Wright in 1968 in Michigan and the couple lived in Utica, Kentucky in the early years. Benita married Melvin Roy Acock on August 12, 1978 in Knob Noster and the couple made their home in Kansas City for the next twenty years. For the past eighteen years, they have lived at their acreage near Kingsville. Benita loved animals, sewing and watching the golden oldies on television.

Survivors include her husband, Melvin; daughter: Belinda Watson and significant other, Daniel O'Reilly of Chilhowee, MO; two sons: Christopher Wright, Sr. and wife, Kimberly of Creighton, MO and Kevin Wright and wife, Heather of Peculiar, MO; nine grandchildren: Samantha Jo Watson, Amanda Lynn Flathers, Austin Lee Vivian, Anita Chafin, Randee Wright, Christopher Wright, Jr., Noah Wright, Meagan Wright, Caleb Wright and Adam Wright; two great grandchildren: Rebecca Watson-Straisinger and Alana Chafin; and another on the way. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Tonya Hall and granddaughter, Samantha Jo Watson.

Funeral Services will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 31st at Williams Funeral Chapel in Holden with Pastor Todd Maclean of Big Creek Baptist Church in Pleasant Hill officiating. Interment will follow at the Kingsville Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 1:00 p.m. until service time, Tuesday at the funeral home.

Online condolences may be left at www.williamsfuneralchapel.net