Stories from Saturday, November 16, 2019

On Thursday, Mission Missouri officially launched The Esther House, a 16-bed recovery housing wing for women, filling a much-needed void in the area. For 16 years, Mission Missouri provided recovery housing for men while there were no recovery housing services for women in Sikeston or the immediate area, with the closest being Recycling Grace in Poplar Bluff. And of course since there is a need in the area, places like Recycling Grace have a waiting list and is tough to get into...

I live over here on Cambridge. It’s always been a nice street, nothing going on. But someone stole a big wall mirror off of my property, from my front porch. And I hope that you look in it and see how proud you need to be of yourself because someday you will pay for it.

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Johnnie L. Via, 61, died Nov. 15, 2019, at her home in Portageville. Born Sept. 9, 1958, in Hayti, daughter of the late Hazel Ethridge and John Via, she was of the Baptist belief and retired from teaching after 28 years at North Pemiscot School...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — Mary Evelyn Hardin, 82, died Nov. 15, 2019, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Sept. 5, 1937, near Bell City, daughter of the late Charles Frank and Idalee Walker Rampley, she had lived in Bloomfield most of her life. She had been a bus driver, baby sat and had managed Coleman's Restaurant...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Angela Dawn Krauss McGah, 55, died Nov. 16, 2019, at the Cotton Point Nursing Center at Matthews. Born Aug. 2, 1964, at Sikeston, to Patty Rose Blumenberg Krauss of East Prairie and the late Johnny Eugene Krauss, she had lived in East Prairie most of her life and was a homemaker...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Linda Kathleen Spence Wallace, 69, died Nov. 16, 2019, at Southeast Health in Dexter. Born June 10, 1950, daughter of the late John David Spence and Bernice Kathleen Garrett Flanagan, she had lived in East Prairie a number of years, most recently living at the Ridgeview Living Center in Dexter...