Stories from Wednesday, August 8, 2018

SCOTT CITY, Mo. — A Chaffee man was killed and a Scott City woman seriously injured in a head-on vehicle collision Tuesday in Scott County. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 12:50 p.m. on Route AB, one mile east of Interstate 55 in Scott City limits as the westbound vehicle driven by Natalie M. Woods, 21, of Scott City crossed the center line and struck the eastbound vehicle driven by Larry G. Wolfe, 64, of Chaffee head-on...

Tired of being chased by dogs What has happened to common decency? You can no longer walk or ride a bike down the street without being chased by people’s dogs, that they have let out to do their “business “ on other people’s lawns. And when confronted the tell you to ride somewhere else so as not to bother them or their dog, in the neighborhood in which I live. ...

SENATH, Mo. — Bill Holifield, 87, died Aug. 6, 2018, in Jonesboro, Ark. Born Aug. 20, 1930, in the Nesbett Community near Senath, son of the late W.H. “Doc” Holifield and Vivian Cook Holifield, he was a veteran of the U.S. Navy in the Korean War. He was also a member of the Senath United Methodist Church and American Legion in Senath...

SIKESTON — Rebecca Andrews, 63, died Aug. 7, 2018, at Missouri Delta Medical Center Sikeston. Born Jan. 15, 1955, in Sikeston, she was the daughter of the late Chester P. and Laura Conner Dockins. On July 1, 1979, in Sikeston, she married Sam Andrews, who survives of the home...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Evelyn Lois Roberts Gonzales, 52, died July 31, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born April 19, 1966, in Poplar Bluff, daughter of the late Clarence Chester Roberts and Bertha Elzetta Maddux Roberts Manriquez, she was a 1985 graduate of Charleston High School and had been employed as a home health caregiver. She had lived in Mississippi County most of her life...

ALLENVILLE, Mo. — Larry Gene Wolfe, 64, died Aug. 7, 2018. Born Aug. 5, 1954, in Houston, Texas, son of the late Henry Franklin and Wanda Jewell Bishop Wolfe, he was a maintenance worker for Cape Special Road District in Cape Girardeau. He was a member of Allenville Baptist Church...

SIKESTON — Donald Gene Williams, 64, of Sikeston died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.   Born Aug. 19, 1953, in Mississippi County, to Ralph Williams and Ruby Blasingain. He married Vickie Joyce Jones on July 17, 1975. He is survived by Vickie Williams of Sikeston; a son, Shane (Shalon Baker) Williams of Sikeston; a daughter, Leigh (Tim) Mayberry of Sikeston; a son and a daughter he informally adopted, Clayton Crowden of Sikeston and Rachell Williams of Scott City; six brothers, Darriel Williams of Commerce, Bonnie Williams of Anniston, Robert Staggs of Royalton, Ill., Clyde Staggs, Leroy Blasingain and Michael Blasingain of East Prairie; two sisters, Connie Carlyle-Bennett of Mounds City, Ill., and Dyanne Haddock of Clifton, Tenn.; three grandchildren, Ian Williams, Christian Williams and Savannah Barnhouse; and two informally adopted grandchildren, Christopher Ramzy Gideon and Charles Williams.. ...