Stories from Tuesday, June 27, 2017

MCCORMICK, S.C. - John Allard Watts, 79, formerly of Sikeston, Mo., died June 24, 2017, at University Hospital Born May 13, 1938, in Cape Girardeau, Mo., to the late John S. and Pearl Watts, he graduated from Sikeston High School and attended Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy at Rolla, Mo. In 1996, he retired from his position as manager for Fleming-Potter printing company and moved to McCormick, where he was a member of the McCormick Methodist Church...

CHAFFEE, Mo. - Amy Dawn Oakley, 36, died June 27, 2017, at the family home. Born Jan. 16, 1981, in Chaffee to Walter and Margaret Jane Miller Obermann, she was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church in Chaffee. On Dec. 31, 2016, she married Danny Oakley, who survives of the home...

SIKESTON - John "J.W." Nelson, 82, died June 26, 2017, at Regional One Health Care in Memphis, Tenn. Arrangements are incomplete with Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.

SIKESTON - Kathryn Ethridge, 71, died June 26, 2017, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born March 17, 1946, in Vidor, Texas, to the late Lennie and Myrtle Henderson Williams. Survivors include: one son and daughter-in-law, Ron and Maria Munoz of Sacramento, Calif.; three daughters and one son-in-law, Kristina Munoz of Port Arther, Texas, and Kass Day and Mike Ward and Kacy and Chad Evans, all of Sikeston; two brothers, Don Williams of Vidor and Bobby Williams of Nederland, Texas; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.. ...