Stories from Monday, February 24, 2020

SIKESTON — Sikeston will continue to have a ban on shooting fireworks within the city limits. Monday morning, Sikeston City Council members were split on the issue to approve an amendment to the firework ordinance that would have allowed shooting of fireworks from June 27 to July 3 between the hours of 10 a.m. and 10 p.m.; from 10 a.m. to midnight on July 4; and from 10 a.m. Dec. 31 until 12:30 a.m. Jan. 1...

GLOUCESTER POINT, Va. — Delmar Lee “Charles” Worley 89, died of natural causes at Riverside Regional Medical Center, Feb. 21, 2020. He was born April 20, 1930 in Savannah, Tennessee. Charles was known to all as a loving kind husband, caring father, avid gardener who loved flowers and vegetable gardening, loyal friend and a guitar player of the finest caliber. ...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Jimmie Chester Brooks, 81, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away Feb. 18, 2020, at his residence. He was born, Dec. 19, 1938, in Doniphan, Missouri, to the late Chester Brooks and Essie Drowns Brooks.

SIKESTON — Beatrice “Bea” Ryan, 94, died Feb. 22, 2020, at Delta South Nursing Center in Sikeston. Born Oct. 1, 1925, in Benton, Mo., daughter of the late Charles and Adelia Westrich Bollinger, she was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Sikeston...

SIKESTON —James Walton Beavers Jr., 82, died Feb. 23, 2020, at his home in Sikeston. Born April 29, 1937, in Tallapoosa, Mo., son of the late James and Clara Belle Baugher Beavers Sr., he was a member of Shady Acres Church of Christ in Sikeston. He had worked at Presley’s Trailer Sales and Redneck Trailer Supply until he retired in 2002...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Betty June Williams, 89, Feb. 23, 2020, at East Prairie Nursing Center. Born March 31, 1930, in New Madrid County, daughter of the late Lloyd Franklin and Audry Jordan Moore, she was a homemaker and member of Crowe United Methodist Church near the LaForge community...

CHARLESTON, Mo. —Mattie Elizabeth Simpkins Prince, 92, died Feb. 22, 2020, at the Bertrand Nursing Home. Born Aug. 5, 1927, in Hornersville, Mo., daughter of the late Benjamin and Mary Jane Simpkins. She and James Frederick Prince were united in marriage on April 3, 1948.  He preceded her in death on April 18, 1988, she was a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, teaching first through seventh grades. ...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Mary Lee Burgess, 88, died Feb. 22, 2020, in East Prairie. Born Nov. 1, 1931, in Morehouse, MO., she was the daughter of the late Issac and Helen Stallings McCormick. She married Carl F. Burgess in Morehouse, and he preceded her in death on March 19, 1992...

MOREHOUSE, Mo. — Glen Holman, 90, died Feb. 23, 2020, at his home in Morehouse. Born July 27, 1929, in Lamar, Ark., he was the son of the late Pink and Clara Grace Holman. On July 2, 1949, in Piggott, Ark., he married Golda Noyes, who preceded him in death on Feb. 27, 2015...