Stories from Sunday, September 27, 2009

sd_sports@yahoo.com CHARLESTON -- The Charleston Bluejays football team has experienced little success on the field in their 2009 campaign. The Bluejays (0-5) had small numbers at the beginning of the season, but an array of injuries through the first four weeks left them at a mere 20 players dressed out for Friday's game against the Hayti Indians...

sd_sports@yahoo.com CHAFFEE -- He may not be the biggest guy on the field but on Friday night, Scott City's Garrett Schaefer made the biggest impact. Standing at a meager 5-5 and weighing in at 130 pounds soaking wet, Schaefer carved up the Chaffee Red Devil defense for 175 yards and two touchdowns all with incredible speed...

sd_sports@yahoo.com CARUTHERSVILLE -- The New Madrid County Central Eagles improved to 4-1 on the season with a 36-7 victory over the Caruthersville Tigers on Friday evening. For the Eagles, it was an impressive performance by G'Darius Stevenson that aided the 29-point victory...

sd_sports@yahoo.com CHAFFEE -- The Scott City Rams knew that Friday's game was a big one. Not only was it against their biggest rival, the Chaffee Red Devils, but it was a chance for them to get their first win of the season. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition.
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scottw@standard-democrat.com MINER -- Judgement House is back -- this time with a local twist. In what has become an annual October event offered as an alternative to haunted houses, the Miner Baptist Church will present the dramatic walk-through presentation about choices and their possible consequences for the ninth time this year...

leonnah@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- Buster Hampton's job as a crop duster has come a long way from the primarily summertime business when he started Hampton Flying Services 20 years ago. "There's quite a bit more flying than when I started. We're flying year-round now," Hampton said...

michellef@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- The number of local foreclosures appears to be steady, if not down -- partially due to greater cooperation between home owners and lending institutions. So far this year, the Standard Democrat has run as much ad space devoted to legal ads concerning foreclosures as it did in all of 2008. Guidelines state all such listings be printed in five publications, and several counties use the newspaper to publish their listings...

BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. -- Erma Jean Bannon Mayo, 71, died Sept. 20, 2009, at the Salem Place Nursing Home in Conway. Funeral arrangements are with the Wilson Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

SIKESTON -- Emma Osbourn, 68, died Sept. 26, 2009, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at the Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.

SIKESTON -- T.J. Beck died Sept. 24, 2009, in Branson. Arrangements are incomplete with Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.

CHARLESTON -- Thomas "Tommie" Williams, 85, died Sept. 25, 2009, at the Charleston Manor Skilled Nursing Facility. Funeral arrangements are with the Williams Funeral Home in Charleston. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

SIKESTON -- Betty B. Rogers, 70, died at 2:48 a.m. Sept. 25, 2009, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Blanchard Fuenral Chapel. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

SIKESTON -- Pallbearers at services held Friday at the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel for Roy "Ruth" Rainwater, 91 of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Sikeston, who died Sept. 22, 2009, were: Jim Cagle, Jerry Holland, Bill Bacchus, Lynn McKinnie, Odell Farmer and Jay Stacy...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Malcomb Marks, 75, died at 2:20 p.m. Sept. 25, 2009, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at the Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie.

CAMPBELL -- Patricia Ann Boone Mallady, 77, died Sept. 24, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

ORAN -- Dorothy Marie Jansen, 87, died at 11:08 a.m. Sept. 24, 2009, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...