2016, Highway 249 near Missouri Southern State University between the I-44 and 49 interchange and East Zora became known as the Governor Warren E. Hearnes Memorial Highway. Death Hearnes died August 16, 2009. He is buried in IOOF Cemetery in Charleston, Missouri, along with his daughter, Lynn Cooper Hearnes, who was killed in an auto accident on December 31, 2009, only a few months after the death of her father. References |- |- |- |- |- |- 1923 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American judges 20th-century American politicians Democratic Party governors of Missouri Democratic Party members of the Missouri House of Representatives Military personnel from Illinois Military personnel from Missouri Missouri state court judges People from Charleston, Missouri People from Moline, Illinois Secretaries of State of Missouri United States Army officers United States Military Academy alumni University of Missouri alumni