Stories from Monday, December 9, 2019

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Donna Marie Linville, 82, died Dec. 6, 2019, at Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau. Born Nov. 18, 1937, in Savannah, Tenn., she was the daughter of the late Beadth Thomas Linville and Chester Lee Linville. She was also preceded in death by three sisters, Margie May, Alley Harper and Loise Rainey; and three brothers; Pate Linville, Hugh Linville and J.C. Wright...

SIKESTON — Gwinlin JoAnn Melton, 84, died Dec. 7, 2019, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center in Sikeston. Born Dec. 16, 1934, in Bloomfield, she was the daughter of the late Albert and Viola Walker Pixley. Survivors include: three sons and two daughter-in-laws, Harold and Debbie Lancaster of Delta, Ronnie and Linda Davis of Elk Creek, Va., and Gary Melton of Pekin, Ill.; six daughters and two son-in-laws, Teresa Sheppard of San Antonio, Texas, Sherry and Jess McGee of Palm Beach, Fla., Georgia and James Cook and Margie Todd of Sikeston, Peggie Peters of Caruthersville and Kathy Wilson of Dexter; five sisters, Mildred Parks, Patsy Sanders and Glida Eisenhower of Sikeston, Lillian DeWitt of Miner and Mary Clark of Dexter; and 13 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.. ...

SCOTT CITY, Mo. — A New Madrid, Mo., man was killed in a one-vehicle accident early Monday morning. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, Robert E. Law, 49, was northbound on Interstate 55 at the 88.6 mile marker at 5:08 a.m. Monday in his 2016 Freightliner, when his vehicle ran off the right side of the roadway, struck a guardrail and bridge railing and ran off an embankment...

MILLSAP, Texas — Imogene Maxine Hatley, 93, died Nov. 30, 2019. Born June 23, 1926, in Hornersville, Mo., daughter of the late Lester and Faye Peel, following high school graduation, she enlisted in the Army Corps of Cadets Nursing School during World War II. She worked as a nurse and nursing home administrator, and she was a missionary...

PARMA, Mo. — Mary Blankinship, 88, died Dec. 8, 2019, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Born Oct. 11, 1931, in Parma, daughter of the late Arthur and Myrtle Gillbreath Neal, she had lived in Parma all of her life and had worked as a CNA, Med Tech and in in-home care until she was 82. She was a member of the Eastern Star and the Church of Christ belief...