Stories from Tuesday, July 24, 2018

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Concern over the safety of children operating vehicles on city streets has prompted a change in how the matter will be handled by local police. New Madrid Police Chief Joey Higgerson said his department was contacted by several citizens regarding children driving golf carts, all-terrain vehicles and utility vehicles on the city’s streets...

AUSTELL, Ga. — Sylvester Fredrick Banks, 54, formerly of Charleston, Mo., died July 20, 2018, at his sister’s home in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Born Jan. 4, 1964, in Wyatt, Mo., son of the late Sylvester and Sally Reed Banks, he was of the Baptist belief and a 1982 graduate of Charleston High School. ...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — Harold M. Gaines, son of the late Curtis Edgar and Winnie Mable Skelton Gaines, was born in Bloomfield, on April 17, 1922, and passed away at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston on July 23, 2018, at the age of 96 years, 3 months and 6 days...

SIKESTON - The stampede is on. This year the Sikeston Jaycees are working hard to involve local businesses and area residents in the 66th annual Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo. While the actual rodeo begins Aug. 8, the first-ever Stampede Week kicks off local activities Aug. 3...

SIKESTON — Clinton Daniels, 78, July 23, 2018, at his daughter’s home in Talala, Okla. Born Jan. 26, 1940, in Murray, Ark., son of the late Leonard and Isabelle Henderson Daniels, he had worked as a mechanic at Jarvis Motor Co. for 31 years. On Jan. 6, 1969, in Double Springs, Ala., he married Annie Ergle Daniels, who survives of the home in Sikeston...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Haley Paige Davis, 30, died July 20, 2018, in St. Louis. Born Oct. 10, 1987, in Poplar Bluff, daughter of Eric and Lana Davis of Sikeston and the late Charlene McConnell Gee, she had been a housekeeper and was of the Baptist belief...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Jeffery Dean "Jeff" Smith, 45, died July 21, 2018, in Dogwood.  Born Dec. 15, 1972, in Sikeston, son of Dorothy Smith of East Prairie and the late Raymond E. Smith, he was the owner of Smith Lawn Service and a member of Dogwood Methodist Church...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Ada Marie Lay, 79, died July 22, 2018, at East Prairie Nursing Center.  Born April 1, 1939, in Blytheville, Ark., daughter of the late William Levi and Pearl May Littrel Counts, she was a homemaker and member of New Madrid Baptist Church. ...

PERKINS, Mo. — David Lee Massey, 75, died July 24, 2018, at his daughter’s home. Born Aug. 13, 1942, in Knoxville, Tenn., he was the son of the late William Kermet and Bertha Mae Johnson Massey.  His wife, Judith Massey, preceded him in death. He is survived by three sons, David Lee Massey Jr. ...