Stories from Monday, January 11, 2021

When publishing giant Simon & Schuster canceled the release of Sen. Josh Hawley’s new book Thursday, the news caught the attention of a book publisher in the southeast corner of his home state who quickly offered to come to the aid of the embattled Missouri senator...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Authorities are continuing to search for a Mississippi County woman who has been missing for over two weeks. On Sunday, the Mississippi County and Scott County Sheriff’s offices, along with SEMO Search and Rescue, conducted a joint operation in an area bordering both counties, searching for Madisson Lambert, 24, who was last seen at 10:30 p.m. Dec. 26, 2020...

PADUCAH, Ky. — Joyce Moore Burrell, 72, died at 4:16 p.m. Jan. 5, 2021 at Baptist Health Paducah. Visitation is from 10 a.m. until service time at 11 a.m. Saturday at Pettus Rowland Funeral Home in Paducah.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Gloria Ann Newman, 65, died Nov. 24, 2020. Born Dec. 1955, in Hughes, Arkansas, daughter of the late Daisy Mae Newman, Gloria accepted Christ at an early age at St. John M.B. Church in Sikeston, Missouri. Gloria graduated from Sikeston Senior High School and later become a certified nurse assistant...

SIKESTON — Kenneth Scott McCollum, age 52, a resident of Sikeston, formerly of Charleston, Missouri, died Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, at SaintFrancis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He was born June 4, 1968, to Patricia Jean Rademaker McCollum who survives of Sikeston and the late Robert Scott McCollum. ...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — Kenneth Eugene Fowler, son of the late Eural Cecil Fowler and Elsie Stafford Fowler, was born on March 26, 1946, in Parma, Missouri, and departed this life on Jan. 9, 2021, at his residence in Bloomfield at the age of 74. Mr. Fowler was a veteran of the United States Army and served in Vietnam. ...

SIKESTON — Larry D. Polk Sr., or “LP,” age 72, passed away on Jan 6, 2021, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. 

 Larry was born July 16, 1948, in Canalou, Missouri, to the late Alvin and Evelyn Scott Polk. He graduated from Lilbourn High School in 1966. ...

SIKESTON — Kathryn Hann, age 76, of Sikeston passed away on Jan. 10, 2021, at Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She was born Oct. 23, 1944, in Malden, Missouri, to the late James and Edith Sanders Means. She was loved and raised by William and Wanita Walker Sanders...

SIKESTON — Dortha Fowler, age 85, of Sikeston passed away on Jan. 11, 2021, at Delta South Nursing in Sikeston. She was born July 1, 1935, in Canalou, Missouri, to the late Lee and Lila Scott Hewitt. On July 3, 1951, in Piggott, Arkansas,she married John Naney Jr. who preceded her in death on Feb. 26, 1984. After his passing, she married Marion Fowler in Florida, who preceded her in death on Feb. 26, 1999...

SIKESTON — Roy James Frazier, 77, died Jan. 10, 2021, at his home in rural Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Sikeston.

SIKESTON — Jesus called her by name and then He came and took her by her hand and took her to the promise land called Heaven. Shirley Coleman, age 71, went home to be with The Lord on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri...