Stories from Monday, August 13, 2018

DEXTER, Mo. — Patricia Faye Freed, 54, died Aug. 11, 2018, at her home in Dexter. Born Sept. 29, 1963, in Poplar Bluff, daughter of the late Clarence Rufus and Nora Lee Gribble Powell, she had lived in Dudley and Wappapello before moving to Dexter seven years ago. She was of the Baptist belief...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Donna Denise Hall Riggens, 60, died Aug. 5, 2018, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Nov. 23, 1957, in Charleston, to the late Lonnie Cannidy and Arlene Starks Hall., she was of the Christian belief and member of St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church in Charleston. She attended Charleston High School in Charleston, where she was a graduate of the Class of 1977. She worked in health care and also at Lambert’s Cafe in Sikeston...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Garrett Joseph Shankle, 15, died Aug. 12, 2018, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Nov. 25, 2002, at Cape Girardeau, son of Thomas Joseph and Shelby Jeanine Burton Shankle of Charleston, he was preparing to enter ninth grade at Charleston High School. ...