Stories from Thursday, December 20, 2018

BENTON, Mo. — Joel D. Crawford, 36, died Dec. 19, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Dec. 30, 1981, in Dexter, son of Kathy Sheriff of Benton and Tommy Wayne Woods of New Hamburg, he attended Compassion Church and had worked in construction...

HOWARDVILLE, Mo. — Tommie L. Fountain, 83, died Dec. 13, 2018, at his home in Howardville. Born April 14, 1935, in Marked Tree, Ark., he was the son of the late Tommie and Johnnie Mae Gordon Fountain. His wife, Nancy Duncan Fountain, survives of the home...

SIKESTON — Lacinda “Cindy” Brothers, 58, died Dec. 19, 2018, at her home in Sikeston. Born June 10, 1960, in Stoddard County, she was the daughter of the late Ovan and Mildred Lacey Hill. On July 3, 1988, in Sikeston, she married Joseph Brothers who preceded her in death on Oct.20, 2018...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Nelsene Brewer Hillhouse, 97, died Dec. 18, 2018, at her home near Charleston. Born June 24, 1921, in Batesville, Ark., daughter of the late William Nels Brewer and Nellie Ann Barrett Brewer, she moved to Southeast Missouri in 1942.    ...

SIKESTON — Peggy Louise Childers, age 64, passed away on Dec. 19, 2018, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born Dec. 4, 1954, in Poplar Bluff, daughter of the late Clem and Peggy Morath Bader, she was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Sikeston and the Daughters of Isabella. She retired from Unilever Ice Cream Plant in Sikeston in 2018 after 24 years of service...

SIKESTON – On Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, John E. Harper Jr., loving father and grandfather, passed away at the age of 85. John was born on Aug. 5, 1933, in Sikeston, to the late J. Earnest and Mildred Stubblefield Harper. As a teenager, John would work everyday after school, on the weekends, and during the summer on his father’s cattle-hog farm. He worked alongside his father until he graduated from Sikeston High School in 1951...