Stories from Monday, September 21, 2020

SIKESTON — Evert Allen, 76, died Sept. 18, 2020, at Westfield Nursing Center in Sikeston. Born Nov. 15, 1943 in Shelby County, Illinois, son of the late James and Scelina Rochelle Saver Allen, he was of the Pentecostal belief and had been employed by Fedders Corporation...

SIKESTON — Jean Lee, 92, died Sept. 18, 2020, at her home in Sikeston. Born Dec. 14, 1927, in Diehlstadt, Missouri, she was the daughter of the late Luchen and Leona Brooks Hicks. On June 15, 1946, in Sikeston, she married Bob Lee, who preceded her in death on Feb. 13, 1989...

CANALOU, Mo. — Tressie Bernice Barnes, 91, died Sept. 19, 2020, at Miner Nursing Center. Born Oct. 19, 1928, in Searcy County, Arkansas, daughter of the late Charles Edward and Leonna Watts Bohannon, she was a member of Big Ridge Baptist Church and had been a housekeeper at Sells Rest Home...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A retired Chief in the U.S. Navy, Tommie Lee Bridges was born in 1939 in Clarksville, Arkansas, and passed away Sept. 16, 2020. He graduated from Sikeston High School, attended Southeast Missouri State University and received an associate degree from Tidewater Community College. He was a caring father, a generous man and the best friend you could ever hope to have. He had the best personality, always making new friends everywhere he went...

The Missouri Department of Conservation conducted a fishing survey at the Sikeston Recreation Complex Lake Monday morning. The survey was done to determine the fish population and the types of fish currently in the lake. The survey will the MDC start managing the lake in the near future as part of the Community Assistant Program (CAP)...

SIKESTON — L.C. McConnell, 93, died Sept. 20, 2020, at NHC nursing home in Desloge, Missouri. Born March 11, 1927, in Fulton, Kentucky, son of the late Athel and Maggie Reynolds McConnell, he was a veteran of World War II and attended Illinois Avenue General Baptist Church in Sikeston...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — David Leon LaFerney, 71, died Sept. 20, 2020, at his home in Portageville, Missouri. Born Nov. 3, 1948, in Campbell, Missouri, son of the late Frances McKenzie LaFerney and Cecil LaFerney, he worked as police dispatcher until his retirement. He was a member of St. Eustachius Catholic Church...

SIKESTON — Mary Frances (Bollinger) LeGrand, age 85, left this earthly world at 3:08 a.m. on Sept. 20, 2020. She was born Jan. 29, 1935, in Benton, Missouri, to the late Charles R. and Adelia Bollinger. On June 22, 1957, she married Emil “Tony” LeGrand, in Benton and celebrated 60 years of marriage the day before he died on June 23, 2017...