Stories from Tuesday, December 20, 2016

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Senior Tyeshia Mitchell scored a game-high 16 points but the fourth-seeded Sikeston Bulldogs fell to No. 1 Jackson 53-31 during the semifinals of the Kelso Supply Holiday Classic Monday at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo...

POPLAR BLUFF, MO. - Missouri freshman lawmakers got a sampling of community college life and its impact in industry in Southeast Missouri on Thursday, visiting technology departments at Three Rivers College as part of their orientation tour of the state...

DEXTER, Mo. - Charles Gromer, 78, died Dec. 17, 2016, at Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau. Rainey Mathis Funeral Home in charge of arrangements which are incomplete.

SIKESTON - Velma Linam, 82, died Dec. 18, 2016, at her home in Sikeston. Born Sept. 21, 1934, in Lamar, Ark., to the late James and Edna Carolyne (Pierce) Hale, she was a member of Murray Lane Baptist Church. On Oct. 10, 1953, at Grant City, she married William Howard Linam Jr., who survives of the home in Sikeston...

SIKESTON - Velma Linam, 82, died Dec. 18, 2016, at her home in Sikeston. Born Sept. 21, 1934, in Lamar, Ark., to the late James and Edna Carolyne (Pierce) Hale, she was a member of Murray Lane Baptist Church. On Oct. 10, 1953, at Grant City, she married William Howard Linam Jr., who survives of the home in Sikeston...

DEXTER, Mo. -- Charles Gromer, 78, died Dec. 17, 2016, at Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau. Rainey Mathis Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements which are incomplete.

SIKESTON -- Terry Lee Grace, 64, died Dec. 19, 2016, at his home in Sikeston. Born June 9, 1952, in Rochelle, Ill., to the late Edgar (Shirley) Grace and Thelma Massey, he served in the United States Army for six years. On Nov. 10, 1970, in Sikeston, he married Leisa Dockins Grace who survives of the home...

SIKESTON -- Linda Graham, 65, died Dec. 19, 2016, at Sikeston. Born Nov. 18, 1951, in Bernie, to the late Carl and Maxine Webb Condict, she was a member of First Pentecost at Oran. She was co-owner and operator of Graham Farming Equipment and had been a seamstress for King's Laundry...

DELTA, Mo. -- Melva Joyce Moore, 79, died Dec. 19, 2016, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Jan. 28, 1937, in Cape Girardeau, to the late Melvin and Juanita Pennigton Slinkard, she was a self-employed hairdresser and owner/operator of Joyce's Mobile Beauty Shop in Delta. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Delta...