Stories from Monday, December 2, 2019

KENNETT, Mo. — Donna Joann Tilley, 66, died Nov. 22, 2019, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Born Nov. 26, 1952, to the late William “Bill” Ashby and Berneice Goines Ashby, she attended The Bridge Ministries Church in Kennett and had worked at Brown Shoe Company...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — Penny L. Johnson, 53, died Nov. 29, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Nov. 11, 1966, in Poplar Bluff, daughter of the late Billy Gene and JoAnn Olive Flecther Jarrell, she had lived in Bloomfield all of her life. She was Southern Baptist belief and worked as a truck driver for BT Express in Sikeston...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Julia Ruth Wigfall, 87, died Nov. 27, 2019, at Ratliff Life Care Center. Born Nov. 29, 1931, in Tiptonville, Tenn., daughter of the late Joseph and Beatrice Thompson Higgs, she was a lifelong housewife. Her husband, Nathaniel Wigfall Jr., preceded her in death...

SIKESTON — Janice Carol Sloan, 72, died Nov. 30, 2019, at Delta South Nursing Center in Sikeston.  Born July 7, 1947, in Sikeston, daughter of the late Carl and Marcella Gross Holifield, she had been a resident of the area most of her life and was a homemaker. She had attended the Compassion Church...