Stories from Tuesday, August 28, 2018

SIKESTON — A Sikeston man faces multiple charges after allegedly stealing a vehicle over the weekend. Willie B. Boone, 39, is charged with felony stealing of a motor vehicle, two counts of felony first degree property damage, felony resisting arrest/detention/stop by fleeing, misdemeanor first degree trespassing and misdemeanor stealing, according to online court records...

MALDEN, Mo. — Marvin Lee Williams, 60, died Aug. 22, 2018, at his home in Malden. Born April 8, 1958, in St. Louis, son of the late Early Williams and Louvenia Jackson Williams, he attended the Zion Grove Missionary Baptist Church of Malden. On Oct. 26, 1986, in Malden, he married Annie Sherrod, who survives of the home...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo.— Elmer Gene Blankenship, 72, died Aug. 27, 2018, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born Feb. 17, 1946, in Advance, son of the late Elmer Edward and Helen Geraldine Probst, he had lived in the Marble Hill area before moving to Bloomfield in 1996. He worked as a well driller...

CHAFFEE, Mo. — LaVerne Ruth Keller, 72, died Aug. 26, 2018, at her home in Chaffee. Born Jan. 7, 1946, in Chaffee, daughter of the late Byrl Theodore and Mary Louise Schmitt Greer, she graduated from Chaffee High School in 1963. In 1983, she moved to Hutto, Texas, where she started her own cosmetology business. She returned to Chaffee after living in the Austin, Texas, area for 32 years...

SIKESTON — Marcus De'Andres Price, 27, died Aug. 23, 2018, in Sikeston. Born April 15, 1991, in St. Louis, son of Walter and Alice Price Moss of Sikeston, he was of the Christian belief and a former member of St. John Missionary Baptist Church. A 2009 graduate of Sikeston High School, he joined the United States Army where he served from 2009 until 2012. ...

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. — Gerald (Gerry) Wayne Rister, 73, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018, as he was surrounded by his loving family. Gerald was born Jan. 24, 1945, to Ebert Gerald and Leatha Elizabeth Rister in Sikeston, Mo., the younger of two children. He graduated from Kelly High School, Benton, Mo., in 1963 and received a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1969...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The Springfield-Cape Girardeau Catholic diocese has launched an inquiry into the personnel records of all its clerical and lay staff dating back more than five decades in the wake of reported sexual abuse by priests in Pennsylvania...

The new Head Start classrooms at New Madrid welcomed students Monday with the start of school. Construction was completed earlier this year on three classrooms, which provide pre-school education services for 51 children. The large classrooms are divided into learning areas. ...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — It wasn’t unusual to see Barbara Stoffer driving her small green Volvo around New Madrid. But on Aug. 20, 2013, Stoffer drove through New Madrid, then headed out onto the rural roads of the county, never to be seen again. Five years later, law enforcement officers have not given up their search for clues in the disappearance of the 83-year-old New Madrid woman...

BERTRAND, Mo. — Joseph “Joe” Garrett, 65, formerly of Sikeston, died Aug. 28, 2018, at his home in Bertrand. Born Jan. 3, 1953, at Bertrand, son of the late Oscar and Rosa Alline Turnbow Garrett, he had lived most of his life in Sikeston where he was employed a number of years as the sexton of Garden of Memories Cemetery and Memorial Park Cemetery at Sikeston and the Forest Hills Cemetery near Morley. He was of Pentecostal belief.