Stories from Monday, April 23, 2012

sports@standard-democrat.com CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Oran Eagles baseball team went lost both of their games over the weekend during the Notre Dame Showcase at Notre Dame High School. Oran (11-4) lost the showcase's finale 5-0 to the host, Notre Dame Bulldogs...

CARUTHERSVILLE - It wasn't the shoe he left behind at the scene but an anonymous tip which led officers to an arrest of a suspected truck thief. According to Caruthersville Police, at approximately 10:10 p.m. Saturday officers received a call about a pickup being stolen from a residence on Eighth Street...

SIKESTON -- John Sawin, 53, died April 23, 2012, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete with Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.

PIEDMONT -- Kenneth Mills, 69, died April 22, 2012, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete with Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.

SIKESTON -- Edsel Lindsey, 81, died April 22, 2012, at Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete with Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.

DEXTER -- Cynthia Ranee Powell, 52, died April 21, 2012, at her home. Born March 23, 1960, at Dexter, daughter of Mary Gromer Kinder of Dexter and the late Bobby J. Powell, she was a former beautician in the Poplar Bluff area and a member of Faith Fellowship Church of Dexter...

DEXTER -- Laura Dianne Stroder, 44, died April 19, 2012, at her home. Born May 16, 1967, in Bloomfield, daughter of Doyle W. Eubanks of Bloomfield and Kathy M. Cantrell Eubanks of Dexter, she was employed by the Southeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging in Cape Girardeau...

ESSEX -- Mary Lou Kinder, 83, died April 21, 2012, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born May 29, 1928, in Advance, to the late Eugene and Mary Cato Walker, she was a former employee of Dexter Memorial Hospital in Dexter for 27 years and affiliated with the St. Joe General Baptist Church. She was a member of the Dexter Eastern Star, Ladies Auxiliary and Dexter Elks Lodge...

SIKESTON -- Julia Beeler, 83, died April 20, 2012, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center. She was born March 26, 1929, in Bentonville, Ark. On Aug. 20, 1976, she married Thomas Carl Beeler who survives of the home. In addition to her parents she was also preceded in death by one son, Billy Joe Warren, one brother, Jack Langston, and one sister, Edith Langston...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Sandra Kay McCulley, 52, died April 20, 2012, at her home. Born April 3, 1960, in Hayti, she was the daughter of Virgie Pauline House Carnell of Portageville and the late D.C. Carnell. On July 5, 1975, in Chaffee, she married Steven L. McCulley who survives of the home...

SIKESTON -- Mary Alma Corlew Nicholas, age 102, of Sikeston, died Saturday, April 21, 2012, at her home. She was born Jan. 23, 1910, in Essex, to the late Franklin and Susan Wamble Corlew, and was a member of the Sikeston First Church of the Nazarene. She worked for the International Shoe Company and Sikeston Public Schools Matthews cafeteria until her retirement...

sports@standard-democrat.com CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Sikeston Bulldogs track team had a strong showing Saturday during the Cape Relays at Cape Central High School. The boys team finished fifth with an 89 while the girls topped out at third with 114. Cape Central took first with 124 points. Union and Jackson beat out Sikeston on the girls side...

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jillb@standard-democrat.com NEW MADRID - One hundred and fifty years later, New Madrid is still fighting. While the nation commemorates the Civil War battles of Appomattox and Gettysburg and of Bull Run and Shiloh, one of the key battles in the western theatre of the War Between the States was fought at New Madrid. Local historians want the public to know there is a lot to learn about the war and those who fought in it right here...

Capt. Matthew Knoderer, of Cape Girardeau, is the new commander for the National Guard's 1221st Transportation Company in Dexter, Sikeston and Portageville. Read more about the new commander in an upcoming edition of the Standard Democrat.