Stories from Wednesday, May 8, 2019

For as long as I can remember, the prevailing political axiom was that voters vote their pocketbooks. Were that still the case, our incumbent President would walk to an easy reelection in numbers unseen for many years. But this is not your Daddy’s political climate. Or had you noticed?...

Mr. Editor, are you or your staff watching Dr. Strangelove that is being shown right now? Who would have ever thought the United States would be living that? Some people have been living it for years in the world, due to this country’s military. Thanks to people like you and Mitch McConnell and your obsession with whether girls are made to have babies or not. I guess you think they’ll all be your babies. I know it’s a turn on to you the thoughts of subordination of women and girls especially. I think that’s why all the little girls have been taken at the border. For you religious perverts.

WYATT, Mo. — James Farmer “Jim” Whitehead, 73, died May 4, 2019, at his home in Wyatt.   Born May 24, 1945, at Charleston, son of the late William Carl Whitehead and Lucy Pauline Farmer Whitehead, he worked in the cotton gin. He worked several other jobs in Brawley, Calif. ...

RISCO, Mo. — L.G. Maxwell, 84, died May 6, 2019, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Born June 30, 1934, in Greenbrier, Ark., son of the late Lando George Maxwell and Dora Greer Maxwell, he was a Unites States Army veteran, serving in Vietnam. He retired from the military after many years of service. He was also a member of the Church of God of Parma...

SIKESTON — Violet Fay Estes Laster, 70, died May 7, 2019, at Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau. Born May 5, 1949, in Cairo, Ill., daughter of the late John F. Estes and Jaunetia Hope Rogers Estes, she was a 1967 graduate of Charleston High School. She worked for the Division of Family Services at the East Prairie office a number of years before going to work at the Miner Baptist Church Daycare. Having lived in Sikeston a number of years, she was a member of the Miner Baptist Church...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Sandra “Sandy” Giddens passed away May 6, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau surrounded by her husband and daughters. She was born Dec. 21, 1946, in Sikeston, to the late J.P. and Virginia Johnson Holland. On Sept. 6, 1974, in Lilbourn, she was married to Jon Giddens who survives of the home...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Richard Lee "Rick" Smoot, 60, of rural Charleston died May 7, 2019, at Barne-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.