Stories from Wednesday, November 20, 2019

SIKESTON, Mo. – A Sikeston medical group has announced it fell victim to a recent cyber attack. In a release from Saint Francis Medical Center, on Sept. 21 officials became aware that the computer network utilized by Ferguson Medical Group before being acquired by Saint Francis Medical Center experienced a cyber attack the previous day...

Caruthersville, Mo. - A free conference for caregivers and grandparents who are raising grandchildren took place at the Glenn E. Daulton Community Center in Caruthersville on Thursday, November 7, 2019. The goal of the conference was to reach out to family caregivers and grandparents and other kinship caregivers including foster parents, who are raising children other than their own. ...

BRANSON, Mo. -- The Bootheel BassBusters Club held their eighth tournament and final tournament of the year on October 25 and 26 with a weigh-in at Lazylee’s Resort on Table Rock Lake. Mike Estes won the tournament with seven bass weighing 14 Lbs. 6 Oz. Terry Williams was second with four bass weighing 11 Lbs. 3 Oz. and Griff Estes was third with four bass weighing 9 Lbs. 11 Oz...

The 2020 census will be here before we know it. Last week, I participated in an on-line meeting that told about the importance of the census. There was a presentation by Pam Duitsman. She is a County Engagement Specialist in Community Economic Development in Christian County...

Portageville, Mo. – First State Bank & Trust Co., Inc. recently appointed Marie Gill to serve as community bank president in Portageville. Her responsibilities include providing direction and supervision to all personnel, developing area partnerships and creating growth strategies...

Cape Girardeau, Mo. – At 10 a.m. on Jan. 15, 2020, BOLD Marketing will hold the first session of Small Business Best Practices – a year-long program featuring monthly training sessions developed to help small business owners and employees take control of their marketing efforts. Each session will include lunch and four hours of focused, hands-on learning. The program is aimed at all marketing skill levels. Each session will be held at the BOLD Marketing office in the Canvas Event Center...

Eryn-Faith Posey-Atkins, center, is the 2019 Missouri Little Miss Missouri Universal BeautyQueen and the 2019 Little Miss Worlds candidate. She is the daughter of Brice and Katherine Atkins. At left is Madysin Balderas, she is the 2019 Teen Miss Missouri Universal Princess and 2019 Teen Miss World candidate. ...

CHAFFEE, Mo. — Fred William “Bill” Jobe, son of late Fred William Jobe and Margery Ann White Jobe, was born on June 18, 1968, in Chaffee, and departed this life on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 51 years...

MATTHEWS, Mo. — Kenneth Wayne Walters Sr., 80, died Nov. 7, 2019, at his home in Matthews. Born Dec. 1, 1938, in Anniston, son of the late Tyrus Henry and Julia Weakley Walters, he had been a self-employed farmer before retiring. On Jan. 1, 1961, he married Wanda Jean Standridge; she survives of the home...

ORAN, Mo. — Oran High School has released its first quarter honor roll for the 2019-2020 school year. 12th Grade – Paige Bradley, Jacey Brant, Allison Colbert, Daija Dirnberger, Savannah Elfrink, Ryan Friga, Tyson Goodale, Heather Gosche, Kenna Graviett, Bryant Hahn, Joseph Hazen, Morgan Kern, Dallas Kluesner, Taylor Lowes, Kaiden Massey, Jimmy May, Kaylyn Michael, Carsen Moyers, Kaylee Payne, Jake Phillips, Todd Priggel, Abigail Reynolds, Elizabeth Ross, Bailey Shipley, Kole Simms, Colby Sims, Madison Stanley, Samantha Welter, Caden White, Sonya Whitmore, Robert Yates. ...

ORAN, Mo. — Oran Elementary has announced its first quarter honor roll for the 2019-2020 school year. Third Grade Ava Asmus, Colten Brashear, Hudson Burlison, Conner Cook, Lyla Davis, Ben Evans, Delia Evans, Michael Evans, Addison Jones, Thomas Kinney, Chase Kolwyck, Jordan LeFave, Lila Petterson, Easton Phillips, Lane Rister, Wheetley Romas, Corbin Sandusky, Alexis Thomas...

SIKESTON — Sikeston High School seniors Clark Steward and Isabelle McGill were named Students of the Month for November. Sikeston Public Schools Foundation, which sponsors the monthly program, names two seniors each month for the honor during the 2019-2020 school year...

Sikeston Fifth and Sixth Grade Center has named its October fifth grade students of the month.

Sikeston Fifth and Sixth Grade Center has named its October sixth grade students of the month.

MOREHOUSE, Mo. — Timothy Gale Parr, 54, died Nov. 15, 2019, at the Cotton Point Living Center in Matthews.  Born March 25, 1965, in Sikeston, son of the late Russell and Naomi Ruth Casey Parr, he worked for Curry Pest Control. On Dec. 24, 1990, he married Belinda Greer, who survives of the home...

DEXTER, Mo. — Mike Hess, 59, died Nov. 19, 2019, at his home in Dexter. Born Nov. 1, 1960, in Lilbourn, son of Kathryn Imogene Colbert Hess and the late Roy Franklin Hess, he had lived in Parma before moving to Dexter 30 years ago. On April 5, 2005, in Dexter, he married Dorthia Lynn Sanders, who survives of the home...

SIKESTON — Shelby Jean Johnson, 80, died Nov. 7, 2019, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Jan. 2, 1939, in Kewanee, she was the daughter of the late Melvin Davis and Jewel Beardsley Davis Maschmeyer. On July 4, 1958, in Sikeston, she married Jackie Wayne Johnson Sr., who preceded her in death on July 28, 2000...

PARMA, Mo. — Ethel Reatha Cravens, 100, died Nov. 12, 2019, at the New Madrid Living Center in New Madrid. Born Feb. 2, 1919, in Hartville, daughter of the late Daniel J. and Dora E. Howard Painter, she had lived in Parma since 1937. She was a member of the First Pentecostal Church in Parma...

RISCO, Mo. — Marcella Eloise Hon, 91, died on Nov. 12, 2019, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Born Aug. 8, 1928, in Alton, Ill., to the late Rube Johnson and Lottie Mae Burch, Marcella was a member of the First Baptist Church in Risco, Blytheville, Ark., and Poplar Bluff. She was the secretary at Risco High School until 1970, before retiring from New Madrid County R-1 Schools in 1990...

CAMPBELL, Mo. — Bessie Frances Lawson, 73, died Nov. 14, 2019, at General Baptist Nursing Center in Campbell, Mo. Born July 19, 1946, at Mercer, Tenn., daughter of the late Bessie Ruth Simer and Otha William Yarbrough, she was of the Baptist belief...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Fred Parnell Jr., 74, died Nov. 13, 2019, at Portageville Nursing Center. Born April 13, 1945. in Tennessee, he was the son of the late Georgie Melton Parnell and Fred Parnell. Survivors include one sister, Bertha Noveasel of Granite City, Ill.; and two cousins, Lorene Parnell and Larry Parnell of Portageville...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Walter “Van” Patten, 61, died Nov. 10, 2019, at his home in Portageville. Born Jan. 16, 1958, in Hayti, son of Mary Alice Phillips Davis of Sikeston and Kenneth Patton of Portageville, he was a graduate of Portageville High School. He worked for several car dealerships, doing bodywork...

SIKESTON — Willie Ann Randolph, 65, died Oct. 28, 2019, at her home. Born Aug. 30, 1954, in Portageville, daughter of the late Lawrence and Evelena King Strickland, she attended the Portageville Public Schools. She was a member of the Powerhouse Church of God in Sikeston...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Roger Dale Williams, 68, died Nov. 11, 2019, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born Oct. 15, 1951, in East Prairie, son of the late Lloyd Buford and Jessie Willine Jackson Williams, he was self-employed with his lawn care business until 2016...

This speakout goes against everybody who drives a car and texts on the phone. Every day it seems when I watch the news or open up the newspaper it seems like there is a driver who is running off the left or right side of the road and getting killed and getting hurt and the police report always reads “person runs off the road.” Now c’mon. We all know why people are running off the road and getting killed are because of these phones. Why can’t our congressman get together and pass a law that as soon as you get in a car your phone is disabled? You can’t get on them. There is not one day that goes by in Southeast Missouri where a person is killed running off the road and dying because of these phones. It looks very stupid when we have to tell somebody my kid, or my mother or my father or a relative was killed by somebody playing on a phone. When are we going to wake up? — Great idea but do they have that technology that your phone doesn’t work when getting in a vehicle and how would it be installed in all vehicles?