Stories from Monday, July 23, 2018

DOGWOOD, Mo. — An East Prairie man died following a head-on vehicle collision Saturday in Mississippi County. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 8:22 a.m. on Route B, one mile south of Dogwood, as the southbound vehicle driven by Jeffery D. Smith, 45, of East Prairie crossed the center of the road and struck the northbound vehicle driven by Daniel F. Stucker, 21, of Essex head-on...

WAPPAPELLO, Mo. — A Wappapello man drowned while swimming over the weekend in Wappapello Lake. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, at 5:40 p.m. Saturday officials responded to the report of a drowning at Wappapello Lake, two miles north of the dam. ...

SIKESTON— A routine traffic stop led to the arrest of two people and the location of drugs and guns Saturday in Sikeston. At 8:56 p.m. Saturday, officers with Sikeston Department of Public Safety conducted a vehicle stop near the intersection of West Malone and Fair Street for defective equipment, according to Lt. Austin Henley with Sikeston DPS...

SIKESTON — Virginia N. Pruitt, 92, died peacefully, with her family around her, on July 17, 2018, at Highland Hospital in Rochester, N.Y.  Born July 13, 1926, in St. Louis, the daughter of Frank Silvertooth and Perilee Flake Silvertooth, Virginia worked as part of the war effort for the Army Service Forces in the St. Louis Ordnance District, from 1943-1945...

BENTON, Mo. — Marcella Christine Mack, 66, died July 22, 2018, at her home.  Born July 24, 1951, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Rita Klipfel Jansen of Kelso and the late Herman Jansen, she was a federal judicial assistant to the Honorable Judge Lewis Blanton for 22 years, retiring in 2014. She was a member of St. Denis Catholic Church in Benton and the Ladies Sodality...

MOREHOUSE, Mo. — Junior Ray Parker, 86, died July 23, 2018, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born June 16, 1932, in Kiser, Ark., son of the late James Andrew and Mollie Rose Ann Warren Parker, he had lived in the Morehouse area most of his life. He had worked at the Himmelberger-Harrison Plant and as a farmer and was a member of the First Pentecostal Church in Morehouse...