Stories from Monday, September 24, 2007

I just wanted to speak out about a story I heard on the news. Apparently there's an 11-year-old boy playing football at his school. His coach decided he wasn't good enough, he couldn't keep up with the team. So the coach took the boy's uniform off of him and made him walk home in his underwear and T-shirt. ...

SIKESTON - Mr. and Mrs. Duncan announce the engagement of their daughter, Rose Marie, to Ramsey B. Garner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alva B. Garner. --- NEW MADRID - Mr. and Mrs. David Chamberlain of New Madrid are parents of a baby boy. SIKESTON - Firemen were called to extinguish a grass fire at the residence of A.L. Harris Jr., 624 Moore. No damage was caused. The fire spread from another fire started from a wiener roast...

SIKESTON - Joshua Propst and Heather Redden are the parents of their second child, second son, born at 5:29 a.m. Aug. 19, 2007, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Zander Dominick Propst weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces, and was 20 inches long. Maternal grandparents are Pam Lewis, John Lewis, Larry Redden and Julie Redden...

Gage Harrell of Chaffee tries taking blood pressure during a learning session offered Saturday for area high school students. The session, conducted at Sikeston Three River Community College campus, was an opportunity for students to learn about careers in the medical field as well as get some hands-...

BLOOMFIELD -- A shortage in the public defender's office has lead to another extension in the trial of a Dexter man charged with forcible sodomy and incest. Raferd Eugene Hays, 46, of Dexter will now face a jury trial before Presiding Circuit Judge Stephen R. Sharp at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11...

NEW HAMBURG -- Mary Helen Glastetter, 91, died at 3:50 p.m. Sept. 21, 2007, at the Monticello House in Jackson. Born Dec. 28, 1915, at St. Louis, to the late Stanley and Angela Kotraka Kosciulek, she was a homemaker and member of St. Lawrence Catholic Church and St. Ann's Sodality in New Hamburg...

CHAFFEE - Marylin Joyce Schwach, 84, died at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 21, 2007, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Born Oct. 21, 1922, in Casselton, N.D., to the late Charles and Laura Kreugert Schoenherr, she was a retired housekeeper from the Red Carpet Hotel in St. Louis. She served as a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps and was a member of St. Ambrose Catholic Church, the Daughters of St. Ambrose and American Legion Auxiliary Post No. 389, all of Chaffee...

SIKESTON -- Pauline Roslen, 67, died Sept. 21, 2007, at her home near Sikeston. Born Aug. 28, 1940, in Grants, N.M., daughter of the late Paul Edward and Rose Lee McMillin Sorter, she had lived in Essex for 25 years and in rural Sikeston for the past 25 years...

SIKESTON - Louis D. Spivey, 77, left his earthly home on Sept. 23, 2007, to be with his Heavenly Father after a lengthy battle with cancer and Parkinson's disease. He died at home, with family at his side. Louis was born on March 8, 1930, at Carbondale, Ill., son of the late Armel Spivey Sr. and Jewel Ralph Spivey...

ORAN -- The Oran Lady Eagles were back in action Saturday playing host to the Chaffee Lady Red Devils, defeating the visitors by a score of 6-0 in seven innings. Taking the win, on Senior Day, was senior Callie Kielhofner, who allowed no runs, on seven hits, two walks and had three strikeouts. She allowed no extra base hits in the contest...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Kelle Cates usually doesn't let her children run around and be wild at her house or when she takes them shopping. But she and her children, Spencer, 11, and Libby, 6, of East Prairie, had no problems running around, portraying an out-of-control family in country singer Shooter Jennings' latest music video, "Walk of Life."...

ESSEX -- An Essex man died as the result of a single-vehicle accident Sunday evening. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred around 9:12 p.m. on Route E, two miles north of Idalia. Gilbert D. Marler, 38, was traveling west when he lost control of his vehicle and ran off the north side of the roadway. The vehicle overturned and ejected Gilbert, who was pronounced dead at the scene by Stoddard County Coroner Morgan Sifford...