Stories from Tuesday, January 8, 2019

SIKESTON — A citizen’s tip to police resulted in the arrest of three people for drug charges early Saturday in Sikeston. Cynthia Renee Renfro, 45; Matthew Gene McWhirter, 49; and Curtis Winchester, 36, of Sikeston are each charged with possession of a controlled substance. Renfro and Winchester are also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — Mary Lou Houart, 86, died Jan. 6, 2019, at the Puxico Nursing Center in Puxico. Born June 28, 1932, near Puxico, daughter of the late Mona Olive and Lula Fry Crabb, she had lived in Puxico and Bloomfield most of her life. She had worked at the Purolator factory in Dexter...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Charles Lee Maxwell, 56, died Nov. 5, 2018, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Nov. 11, 1961, at Wichita, Kan., son of the late Charles T. Maxwell and Gloria Ashley Maxwell, he had lived in Wichita many years before moving to Southeast Missouri. He had been employed as a truck driver and then later as a school bus driver for the Head Start Program at East Prairie and then with T&S Farms at Charleston...

WHITEWATER, Mo. — Ronald Lynn Terry, 64, died Jan. 4, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Born Jan. 5, 1954, in Cape Girardeau, son of the late Donald Dean and Joe A. Ates Terry, he was a cabinet and counter top maker for S&W Cabinets in Chaffee for 20 years. ...

MOREHOUSE, Mo. — Russell E. Laminack, 67, died Jan. 7, 2019, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Feb. 23, 1951, in Morehouse, son of the late Gordon Edward Laminack and Mary Sue Kitchen Laminack, he was a member of Morehouse Oneness Pentecostal Church and a self-employed carpenter, painter, and mechanic...

SIKESTON — Sikeston High School has released its first quarter honor roll for the 2018-2019 school year. 12th Grade Jalin Anderson, Gracie Barber, Sarah Barber, Pettis Beard, Mason Bearden, Aliyah Bennett, Skyler Bentsen, Jefonia Biddle, Sean Blanchfield, Seth Blanchfield, Thodore Blissett, Zaria Blissett, Elizza Boes, Claire Boner, Lauren Brase, Rebecca Brizendine, Layne Brown, Tyler Buttry, Berneise Castro, Ashley Clark, Shapale Clark, Taylor Cokenour, Chyna Coleman, Malena Compas, Robert Comstock, Abigail Cooper, Christopher Cooper, Ella Crader, Hollie Cribbs, Imani Cross, Nathaniel Crowly, Katherine Crumpecker, Keviona Davis, Jonathan Degan, Hannah Dockins, Kelli Dukes, Dalton Duncan, Damya Dunn, Gabriel Eckert, Trevor Eftink, Trent Elliot, Kevon Evans, Precious Farr, Gunner Felton, Javion Fletcher, Regine Foote, Grace Foust, Kristiana Frazier, Veyonce Fullwood, Giselle Galang, Ashley Gilman, Joel Gilmer, Addison Ginder, Leon Gordon, Taylor Graham, Brayden Green, James Hall, Vontreal Hamilton, Claire Hamlin, Hampton Hampton, Alli Hay, Cameron Hayden, Julia Herron, Noah Hicks, Trinity Hill, Alyssa Hillis, Hunter Hitt, Malyn Hodges, Jeanesha Horton, Hayli Howard, Treke Jamison, Emma Jones, Howard Jones, Kevin Jones, Keyshawn Jones, Ashton Jordan, Terrionia King, Ryan Lambert, Grant Lawson, Jade Le Jade, Zachary Leal, Issac Leadbetter, Katelynn Lewis, Owen Long, Parker Long, Hana Mason, Leelan Massey, Aaron Mayes, Paige Mays, Russell McGee, Marshall Meeks, William Melrose, Dalton Merritt, Sofia Mijares, Bryce Miller, Karyssa Mitchem, Rakila Mosby, Rozlyn Mosby, Quincy Nelson, Alyssa Nolan, Steven Parker, Sidney Pittman, Drayton Pobst, Megan Porter, Rhaven Porter, Lilly Powell, Malachi Preston, Kaitlyn Pritchett, Grace Qualls, Savannah Rangel, Travarius Ranson, Christian Reynolds, Haile Rhodes, Lucas Rhodes, Madeleine Rice, Jawailah Richardson, Madison Riley, Joshua Rishton, David Rowland, Ethan Russell, Nathan Self, Jordan Shadix, Kiarra Sloan, Demetriana Smith, Desaray Smith, Mason Smith, Sydney Stark, Gareth Stash, Caroline Steward, Karsyn Stone, Oceanna Stroup, Kayla Teal, Lestyn Thompson, Jeffery Thornbrough, Tyler Tropf, Emily Tumbleson, Jemel Turner, Alexa Valdez Manning, Jason Vandiver, Madison Vanpool, Nicholar Vaught, Audrey Vogel, Trace Wheetley, Sanarra Whitnet, Audrey Whitten, Anthony Wiggins, Alexis Wilkinson, Spencer Williams, Chyanne Worley, Deunte Yarber, Cooper Young, William Zilafro.. ...

The top 10 PTO fundraiser students at the Kindergarten and Early Childhood Center have been named. The students sold Stonie’s sausages and made about $7,000 for the PTO to help purchase playground equipment. Pictured are front row, from left: Talon Smith, Reid Kelley, Maverik Pullen, Cameron Davis and Bryson Boardman; and back row: Harper Russom, Landon Floyd, Liam Godfrey, Grady Eberhard and Aiden Sindle...

MALDEN — During an usually warm and sunny afternoon in January, Malden alum Nick Thompson decided to spend a weekend home from college to give back to his community. Thompson rallied volunteers on Facebook to join him and clean Frisco Park as well as the Martin Luther King Park in Malden on Sunday afternoon...

DEXTER — The Dexter Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Monday night to award the contracts for the city’s two walking trail/sidewalk projects. Both are phase one projects being funded through Missouri Department of Transportation grants, with a 20 percent match from the city...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Cape Girardeau airport officials celebrated the start Monday of seven additional United Express round-trip flights weekly to Chicago. Airport manager Bruce Loy called it “an amazing day” as he and others marked the occasion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Ira Jo “Mrs. Gee” Gordon, 85, died Jan. 7, 2019, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Born April 9, 1933, in Anniston, daughter of the late Stennis Clemons Sr. and Mary Kirkland, she was of the Christian belief and a member of the Shiloh M.B. ...