Stories from Monday, January 25, 2021

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved mother, Barbara Kay McIntyre, daughter of the late Lawrence Edward Pfifer and Sybil Harmon Pfifer on January 23, 2021 at her home in Morehouse Missouri with her daughters by her side. ...

SIKESTON – Wanda Jean Ward, 54, died Jan. 21, 2021 at her home in Sikeston, Missouri. She was born May 31, 1966 in Cairo, Illinois, the daughter of Tiny Thompson of Karnack, Illinois and the late Dwight Bledsoe. She was manager of Mobile Station in Miner, Missouri...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Jewel Wayne Gross, 74, passed away Jan. 20, 2021 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri. He was born April 14, 1946 in New Madrid County, Missouri, son of the late Melvin Wolfgang Gross and Virginia Katherine Frohock, and had been a farmer before retiring...

SIKESTON – Maglyn Nelson, 90, passed away Jan. 23, 2021 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri. She was born Oct. 8, 1930 in Lilbourn, Missouri, daughter of the late Buford Lane and Fannie Mae Davis Lane. Maglyn was a member of Sikeston First Assembly of God. She taught Sunday school for many years. She had worked as a cook for Sikeston Public Schools before retiring and she was a wonderful mother and granny...

RIDGECREST, La. — Patsy Turner Baker, 87 of Ridgecrest, Louisiana, formerly of Sikeston, Missouri, entered eternal rest on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021 at LaSalle General Hospital in Jena, Louisiana. Born in Sikeston on Jan. 21, 1933 to Floyd and Ella B Turner, she is preceded in death by her first husband of 33 years, William Sikes Baker Jr.; her second husband of 20 years, George Allen Byrnes; her son, William Sikes Baker III; her parents, Floyd and Ella B Turner; her brother, Jerry Turner...

MINER, Mo. — Lona Loedith ‘Edie’ Blackwell, 94, passed away Jan. 24, 2021 at Miner Nursing Center in Miner, Missouri. She was born Aug. 28, 1926 in Center Ridge, Arkansas, daughter of the late Frank and Lodema McCoy Fuller. She was a member of Miner Baptist Church and had been a receptionist for Rural Electric Cooperative before retiring...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Mary Ellen Halter Stricker, 101, of rural Charleston, died Jan. 24, 2021, at the Bertrand Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born Oct. 21, 1919, in Mississippi County, Missouri, to the late Michael Henry Halter and Mary Ethel Carlisle Halter. ...

SIKESTON — Earl Lloyd Henderson of Sikeston passed away on Jan. 25, 2021, at the age of 86, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center in Sikeston. He was born in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, on March 12, 1934, to the late Henry and Ola Bennington Henderson. He was an Officer in the United States Navy during the Korean and Vietnam War. He was also a member of the Masons for 50 plus years...