Stories from Monday, June 8, 2020

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. — The Missouri State Highway Patrol has issued a missing person’s report for a Pemiscot County man who was last seen on June 3. Marc Randall Fullerton, 35, was last seen in Pemiscot County, Missouri, on June 3. He was wearing only black shorts. He has skull ring tattoos and full-length skull on both arms and recently had all teeth pulled out. He has blue eyes, brown hair and weighs 150 pounds and is 5-feet, 11 inches tall...

SIKESTON — Glenda Nathalee Newman, 98, died June 5, 2020, at the Delta South Nursing Center in Sikeston. Born Aug. 21, 1922, at Peach Orchard, Missouri, daughter of the late Adolphus Holtzhouser and Delores Nelson Holtzhouser Stafford, she had lived in Sikeston the past few years. As a pastor’s wife, she moved with her husband as he served congregations in Kennett, Poplar Bluff and Matthews. She was a member of the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Sikeston...

SIKESTON — Glen Godwin, age 87, passed away on June 5, 2020, at La Bonne Maison Senior Living Center in Sikeston. He was born Aug. 26, 1932, in Bement, Mo., to the late Cecil and Myrtle Belver Godwin. On July 17, 1953 in Flint, Mich., he married Christene Mays Godwin who passed away on January 29, 2006...

MATTHEWS, Mo. — Peggy Busby, 78, died June 7, 2020, Cottonpoint Living Center in Matthews. Born Nov. 13, 1941, daughter of the late Cecil “Pete” and Margaret Busby, she was originally from East Prairie, Missouri, and had lived in Sikeston for 30 years. She was a member of the Henry Meldrum American Legion Auxiliary and had worked as a hair dresser in Sikeston for many years before retiring...

SIKESTON — Ruth Eliza “Polly” Calhoun, 93, died June 5, 2020, at the Missouri Delta Community Hospital in Sikeston. Born July 29, 1926, in Malden, Mo., daughter of the late Louis and Eliza Rowland Williams, she was a domestic engineer and a member of the Greer’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Sikeston, where she was Sunday school teacher, a member of the Missions Society, choir director, member of the Daughters of Sunset and the president of the Mother Board...

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is reporting 181 new positive cases of COVID-19 across the state Monday with 10 new deaths. That brings the number of positive cases in Missouri to 14,734 with 819 deaths. The Scott County Health Department is reporting five new cases since Friday with three more having recovered. The additional positive cases gives Scott County 122 positive cases with 31 active and 80 recovered. There have been 11 deaths...