EZRA (E.T.) BERRY Ezra (E.T.) Berry, 96, Liberty, MO, died Tuesday, January 1, 2002, at Ashton Court Care Center. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Friday, January 4, in Tutt Chapel at Second Baptist Church, Liberty; burial in White Chapel Memorial Gardens, Gladstone, MO. Friends may call 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, January 3, at Church-Archer-Pasley Funeral Home, Liberty. Ezra was born in Laclade, MO, in 1905. He married Vera M. Sargent in 1937. After graduating from Joplin Business College in accounting, Ezra began his successful career at Jung Baking Co. as cash accountant. He and Vera then moved to Linneus, MO, where he was elected County Treasurer of Linn County. He served there for eight years. He then started working for the state of Missouri as County Examiner. In 1945, he was sent to Liberty, MO, to make an audit of Clay County. He retired from B&C Printing Company after several years in sales. He was a member of Second Baptist Church. He courageously endured many years of diabetes and several years of blindness and disability. Survivors include his wife, Vera; two daughters, Nancy Trout, Liberty, MO, and Mary Ellen Leathers, Memphis, TN; a sister, Charlie Massey; two granddaughters; four grandsons; and eight great-grandchildren.