Stories from Monday, June 26, 2006

SIKESTON - With 52 churches and 22 civic organizations in Sikeston/Miner, history can be made and lost in the blink of an eye. However, the administrators and volunteers at the Sikeston Depot Museum want to make sure this never happens as they begin their Sikeston Community History Project...

Jimmy Pullen, a member of Duckett Truck Center's Corporate Game team, pulls during the tug-of-war contest Saturday afternoon at the Sikeston Sports Complex. Duckett won the event and finished in second place behind the Missouri Department of Transportation in the overall championship...

MCKENZIE -- The Sikeston Bulls lost an opportunity to escape the Kit League basement as a result of two losses to the Tennessee T's over the weekend. The losses on Friday and Saturday, the Bulls' fourth and fifth in six games with the T's, dropped the Bulls into a tie for last place with the T's, seven games off the pace of league-leading Owensboro...

CARUTHERSVILLE - A Hayti man is in custody after leading law enforcement officials in a chase through Pemiscot County. A 1:45 a.m. Sunday, Caruthersville Police were advised of a vehicle pursuit through the city by a Missouri State Highway Patrol and Pemiscot County Sheriff deputies. The Caruthersville police joined the pursuit around Route U and Ward Avenue where the driver of the suspect vehicle almost collided with a Caruthersville police car...

BENTON - Four men are in the Scott County jail after being linked to an armed robbery in Caruthersville. The men, whose names were not released by authorities, are from Columbia with ties to Caruthersville, said Caruthersville Police Chief Chris Riggs...

SIKESTON - Mrs. Minnie Frances Masterson, 74 years old, widow of the late Henry Masterson and a resident of Sikeston for the past 56 years, died at her home today after an illness of three months. SIKESTON - Twelve boys from Troop 114 in Sikeston will attend Camp Lewallen near Silva this week under the leadership of G.W. Robinson and Alfred Schloser...

The Morehouse Park Board would like to thank the following people and businesses for making our May fund-raiser a success. All money collected will go toward the matching portion of a LWCF Grant to purchase new playground equipment. A.G. Edwards, Accent Shop, Ag Mart, Air Evac, Antique Shop, Attitudes, Auto Tire and Parts/NAPA, Auto Trim and Design, B and B Bikes and Boats, Betty's Hat Boutique, C and K Building Material Inc., Canedy Sign Co., Cargill Ag Horizons Inc., Carnell's Collision Repair Specialist, Carpet Direct, Lillie Coatney, Collins Music, Community Sheltered Workshop Thrift Store, Cream Castle, Scott and Becky Crumpecker, Dave's Security Locksmith, Delta Ford New Holland, DeWitt Company, Dexter Service Center, DGA Tractor Supply, Mike and Wanda Dillard, Dr. ...

According to a Post Dispatch article on Paul McCartney turning 64 on Sunday, at 65 in England he will be entitled to a basic pension from the British government at least $156 a week and a free transit pass, that in addition to national health care in England probably explains why the recent comparative studies show that British citizens and Canadian citizens are far healthier at all economic levels than Americans who are harassed, worried, being worked to death and have no security at all, especially we have no transportation system. ...

PORTAGEVILLE -- Thomas Earl Wigfall Jr., 12, died June 25, 2006, in Memphis, Tenn. Arrangements are incomplete at DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville.

SCOTT CITY - David Wayne Garrett, 40, died June 24, 2006, at his home. Born May 8, 1966, in Naples, Fla, to Sammie Eugene Garrett of Chaffee and the late Vonda Jean Nickles Garrett, he was of the Protestant faith. In addition to his father, survivors include: one daughter, Jessica Marie Garrett of Scott City; and two brothers, Richard Eugene Garrett of Marston and Marvin Ray Garrett of Scott City...

ST. LOUIS - Leo J. Klekamp, 89, formerly of Sikeston, died at 12:21 a.m. June 25, 2006, at John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis. Born March 31, 1917, in Washington, to the late Henry J. and Elizabeth Sellmeyer Klekamp, he was a mechanical engineer for 46 years with Fluor Daniel Corporation of Sugarland, Texas. He was a member of The Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Henry Meldrum American Legion Post 114 and of the Catholic belief...

SCOTT CITY - Jimmy "Jim" Razer, 61, died at 5:16 p.m. June 24, 2006, at his home. Born Nov. 8, 1944, in Flint, Mich., son of the late Sidney Earl and Juanita Lee Massey Razer, he was a retired baker from Wal-Mart in Cape Girardeau and a member of First Assembly of God Church in Scott City...

ANNISTON - Dorothy P. Coke, 75, died at 10:43 a.m. June 25, 2006, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Shelby Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements which are incomplete.

EAST PRAIRIE - William Daniel Lafferty, 25, died at 9:16 p.m. June 25, 2006, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born June 18, 1981, in Sikeston, son of Danny Gale Lafferty and Rhonda K. Potts, he was a member of Victory Chapel in Charleston...

NEW MADRID - Fern Thompson Riley, 87, passed away on Saturday, June 24, 2006, at her home in New Madrid. Mrs. Riley was born in Holcomb on April 2, 1919, one of 11 children of Bertha Fox and Mack Thompson. She attended schools in Holcomb and Kewanee and graduated from Kewanee High School in 1937. ...