Stories from Friday, December 11, 2009

SIKESTON -- Imogene Garret, 87, died Dec. 10, 2009, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete with Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston.

SIKESTON -- Glenda Whittley, 87, died at Dec. 10, 2009, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel.

DEXTER -- Arthur V. Estes, 78, died Dec. 9, 2009, at his home. Funeral arrangements are with the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

BLOOMFIELD -- Eddie Williams, 60, died Dec. 10, 2009, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

NEW MADIRD -- C.C. "Tip" Clark, 85, with his family at his side, left his earthly home to enter his heavenly home on Dec. 10, 2009, at 2 a.m. at his home in New Madrid. Funeral arrangements are with the Richards Funeral Home in New Madrid. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

SIKESTON -- Gorman Kenneth Hartlein Sr., 87, died Dec. 9, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Funeral arrangements are with the Ponder Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Denny Cole, 51, died at 7:16 a.m. Dec. 10, 2009, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Funeral arrangements are with the Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

ANKENY, Iowa -- Judy Williams, 62, died Dec. 7, 2009, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral arrangements are with the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

KELSO -- Herman August Enderle, 62, died Dec. 9, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

FERGUSON -- Anna Lee Wallace, 77, died Dec. 9, 2009, at her home. Funeral arrangements are with the Ponder Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

NEW MADRID -- Lynda Fay Allen, 64, died Dec. 9, 2009, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Funeral arrangements are with the Richards Funeral Home in New Madrid. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

DEXTER -- Darla Cochran, 64, died Dec. 9, 2009, at her home. Funeral arrangements are with the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

CHARLESTON -- The Charleston Lady Bluejays rolled to a win over Meridian, Ill., 87-17 on Thursday night. Charleston (4-0) was led in scoring by Kasuela Cooper who finished with 30 points. Jerqwuanda Sherrell and Eeneikqua Ewing both ended with 14 apiece...

CHAFFEE -- Saturday afternoon's action is now set in stone in the Chaffee Lady Devils Invitational as semifinal action wrapped up on Thursday evening. Advancing to the championship game were the Delta Lady Bobcats who defeated the Kelly Lady Hawks 54-22...

SIKESTON -- If given the chance, the Charleston Bluejays will make any team pay from behind the arc. With a combined seven 3-pointers from the Bluejays on Thursday night, Charleston was able to hold on and defeat the Cape Central Tigers in the consolation semifinals at the SEMO Conference tournament...

SIKESTON -- Most of the time when a team wins the turnover battle it results with a win on the scoreboard as well. In a turnover-filled contest between the Sikeston Bulldogs and the New Madrid County Central Eagles on Thursday night at the SEMO Conference tournament, the Bulldogs won both...

CHARLESTON -- The bill for Mississippi County's new nuisance ordinance is coming in for less than originally bid -- and does not make owning pit bulls illegal. Commissioners reviewed during their regular weekly meeting Thursday the $3,442 bill for drafting the ordinance from the Cunningham, Vogel and Rost, P.C., legal firm in St. Louis...

BENTON -- Scott County has awarded its health insurance coverage for 2010. In their regular meeting on Thursday, commissioners selected AmeriShare, provided by Anderson Green insurance in Sikeston, as its health insurance provider. "It really mirrors the policy we had last year, but it's a totally different rate," said Commissioner Dennis Ziegenhorn. "It will cost about $120 less per month."...

SIKESTON -- When her culinary arts students are in action, Kerrie Swain describes the situation as organized chaos. "It's almost like an assembly line. When we're in the kitchen, everybody knows what they're supposed to do," Swain said of her students...