Stories from Monday, December 7, 2020

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Three Mississippi County Detention Center inmates face additional charges for their involvement in a recent jail escape. Adam Milburn and Rayshand Lyons face new charges of assault first degree and escape from confinement, both Class A Felonies and disarming an officer, a Class D Felony. ...

BENTON, Mo. — Hiram Dewitt “Dee” Lambert Jr. was born Feb. 25, 1954, in Sikeston, Missouri, to Hiram Dewitt Sr. and Peggy Marshall Lambert, and died Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020, at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. On Aug. 28, 2002, Dee married Cindy Robeson in Benton...

JACKSON – Judith Ann Williams, age 79, passed away Dec. 6, 2020, at Advance Assisted Living Advance, Missouri. She was born Dec. 8, 1941 in Bertrand, Missouri, daughter of the late Calvin “Son” and Annalee Wilkerson Singleton. She was a receptionist at H&R Block for over 20 years and was the director of Miner Baptist Daycare for 10 years. She was a member of Cape County Cowboy Church in Oak Ridge, Missouri...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Dennis Dale Pfuehler, 76, of New Madrid passed away Dec. 2, 2020, at the Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. On Sept. 7, 1944, Baraboo, Wisconsin, he was born to the late Arthur Pfuehler and Lois Capner Pfuehler. In the year 1970, in Newport, Kentucky, he was united in marriage to, Barbara Joan Carr Pfuehler, who survives of the home...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Bettye Taylor Commer passed away on Dec. 3, 2020, in Memphis at the age of 94 due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Bettye was born in Lakeland, Florida, on April 25, 1926, where she was raised. On April 28, 1946, she married Bennett Collins Commer. ...

SIKESTON — Lester Leo Heuring, age 84, of Sikeston died Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Jan. 13, 1936, at Chaffee, Missouri, to the late Gregor and Althea Heuring, he had lived in Sikeston most of his life and had been employed with Wood Truss Manufacturing...

A tree lighting ceremony was held Friday night in Downtown Sikeston and a parade was held Saturday night to ring in the Christmas season.

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. — Barbara Ann Hall, 67, died Dec. 5, 2020, at Caruthersville. Visitation is from noon until service time at 1 p.m. Wednesday at New Bethel Church. Burial will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery at Hayti, Missouri.