Stories from Tuesday, September 12, 2017

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- These Missouri lotteries were drawn Tuesday: Mega Millions 26-37-41-54-65, Mega Ball: 3, Megaplier: 4 (twenty-six, thirty-seven, forty-one, fifty-four, sixty-five; Mega Ball: three; Megaplier: four) Pick 3 Evening 6-2-7 (six, two, seven)...

By Mike McCoy SEMO News Service BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- After 20 years of working in the Stoddard County Assessor's office, Dan Creg has a new title - Stoddard County Assessor. Creg was elected by Stoddard County voters in the August 2016 election by a large margin. Because of Missouri Statutes, which call for the change in the assessor's office to take place after the property tax assessments are completed the following year, Creg did not take office until Sept. 1...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Department of Transportation on Monday launched a statewide survey to solicit public input about the vision for the state's transportation priorities. The Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) is a federally required process that sets the state's 25-year vision for transportation...

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. -- A Pemiscot County judge granted part of a defense motion Monday morning by acquitting a former Poplar Bluff, Missouri, businessman of a leaving the scene charge in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed a local teenager. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- These Missouri lotteries were drawn Monday, Sept. 11: Lucky For Life 11-23-27-30-48, Lucky Ball: 18 (eleven, twenty-three, twenty-seven, thirty, forty-eight; Lucky Ball: eighteen) Pick 3 Evening 3-9-2 (three, nine, two) Pick 3 Midday...

WAPPAPELLO, Mo. -- Barbara A. Lawrence, 75, died Sept. 11, 2017, at her home. Born Nov. 14, 1941, in Morehouse, daughter of the late Marshall and Mavis (Brawley) Bryant, she was of the Protestant belief and a retired registered nurse. O n May 22, 1959, in Circle City, she married Raymond Lawrence, who survives of the home...

RINGWOOD, Oklahoma -- Mr. Ollie McWaters of Ringwood, Oklahoma, passed peacefully from this life at home surrounded by loved ones on Sunday, August 27, 2017. He was born on August 30, 1943, in Charter Oak, Missouri, and was a 1961 graduate of Gray Ridge High School in Gray Ridge, Missouri. ...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- John "Phillip" Payne, 74, formerly of Sikeston, died Sept. 12, 2017, at Woodland Hills Nursing Center in Marble Hill. He was born Jan. 23, 1943, in Sikeston, to the late Luther and Elphia (Kell) Payne. He had lived in Michigan and Hawaii for a while but most of his life he resided in Sikeston and Chaffee...

SIKESTON -- Bernice M. LaQuerre, 86, died Sept. 8, 2017, at her home in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Lois Rowena Farrenburg Russell, 99, died Sept. 11, 2017, at 6:50 p.m. at her home in East Prairie. Born Sept. 5, 1918, in the Farrenburg Community, to the late Eugene and Hattie Mary Ross Farrenburg, she had lived in the Mississippi County most of her life. She was a longtime member of the First Christian Church in East Prairie...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. -- Edna Mae Deere was born Jan. 2, 1927, in Portageville, to Vivan and Daisy Downing. She passed on Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau at the age of 90 years. She and Edward Deere were married in 1949 in Hayward...

SIKESTON -- David Eugene "Gene" Day Jr., 65, died Sep. 12, 2017, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Nov. 24, 1951, in St. Louis, son of the late David E. Day Sr. and Betty Lou Thieman Day, he was a member of Murray Lane Baptist Church and worked as a dispatcher for Reliable Freight and SEMO both in Sikeston and Faith Global in Bertrand...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- William Robert "BillyBob" Marcum, 55, died Aug. 15, 2017, at Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City. Born Dec. 8, 1961, in Florida, to Ruth Marcum, he had worked in the farming industry. He is survived by two daughters, Star Burton of Scott City and Crystal Marcum of Sikeston; one brother, James "Jamie" Marcum of Malden; and four grandchildren...

SIKESTON -- Jerry Lee Summers, 60, died Sept. 6, 2017, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born June 27, 1957, in Indianola, Mis., to Jessie Lee Freeman of Sikeston and Henry Lee Summers of Indianola, he was a member of Smith Chapel United Methodist Church of Sikeston. He attended Sikeston Public Schools and most recently worked at Schaeffer Manufacturing Company in St. Louis...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Robert Earl Mathews, 61, died Sept. 7, 2017, at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Born Jan. 11, 1956, in Walls, Miss., son of the late Syldora Mathews and George Brown Sr., he was was employed with hospital housekeeping services...