Stories from Sunday, February 16, 2020

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — George Wayne Gentles Jr., 47, died Feb. 14, 2020, at his home in East Prairie. Born Nov. 20, 1972, in Sikeston, son of George Wayne Gentles Sr. and Karen Leigh Oliver Gentles of East Prairie, he was a 1991 graduate of East Prairie High School. He had been employed as an over-the-road truck driver a number of years and most recently went to work for Missouri Department of Transportation. He was a member of Full Gospel Church in East Prairie...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — J.W. Lindsay and Monica Goodin have announced the engagement of their daughter, Gretta Darby, to Heath Patrick Rolwing, son of James and Ann Rolwing of Charleston, Missouri. The future bride is enrolled in her first year at Saint Louis University School of Law. She received her bachelor’s degree in marketing at Loyola University Chicago and worked in a private practice law firm in Chicago before returning to Missouri to pursue her legal career...