Stories from Tuesday, June 29, 2021

SIKESTON — Sikeston City Council continues to discuss moving municipal court functions to the circuit courts in Scott and New Madrid counties but a decision still has yet to be made. The item was on the agenda to be voted on at Monday’s council meeting but the measure was tabled after a lengthy discussion with Scott County Circuit Court Judge David Dolan while three council members, Ryan Merideth, Brian Self and Onetha Williams were not in attendance...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Barbara Ellen Norville Rice, 85, formerly of Bertrand, Missouri, died June 26, 2021. Services are at 11 a.m. Wednesday at McMikle in Charleston.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Linda Christine Webber, 61, died June 27, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. A memorial service is planned for a later date with Driver Funeral Service of Sikeston, Missouri, in charge of arrangements.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — William Ranson passed away June 17, 2021, at home, surrounded by family and friends. He was born June 24, 1945, to the late Florence (Maiden) Ranson and Tyree Thomas in Holy Ridge, Mississippi. Visitation is from 1 p.m. until service at 2 p.m. Friday, July 2, 2021, at Williams Funeral Home, Petty Street, Sikeston, Missouri...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — A Charleston man was sentenced on Friday to life in prison after he was convicted in April of the 2018 child abuse and murder of a baby in Mississippi County. Mitchell Brumfield, 39, of Charleston, who was convicted of the 2018 murder of an 8-month-old female, was sentenced to 15 years in the Department of Corrections on the charge of child abuse resulting in death and life in prison for the second-degree murder charge, according to the Mississippi County Circuit Clerk’s Office. ...

The Bill Emerson Reunion brought former employees and family members of Emerson’s back to Cape Girardeau this past weekend to honor the 25th anniversary of the former congressman’s death of lung cancer. The theme of the reunion was “In the Arena,” based on Emerson’s love of the famous Theodore Roosevelt quote from his 1910 speech in Paris, and included a variety of events Friday and Saturday, said Lloyd Smith, a former employee of Emerson’s and organizer of the event...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The American Red Cross continues to experience a severe blood shortage that is negatively affecting blood product availability across the country. Donors of all blood types – especially type O and those giving platelets – are urged to make an appointment to give now and help ensure hospital shelves are stocked with blood products over the Fourth of July holiday and beyond...

Unless more bidders come forward by Wednesday morning, it’s possible Cape Girardeau’s West Park Mall could be sold at a bigger discount than any store inside the mall ever offered. An online auction to sell the shopping center and the 68 acres it occupies — with the exception of the mall’s separately owned J.C. Penney property — began Monday morning...

ORAN, Mo. — Versie Mae Canady, daughter of the late John and Mirl (Greenhaw) Henson, was born July 27,1925, in Cave Creek, Arkansas, and departed her life on Monday, June 28, 2021, at her residence in Oran at the age of 95 years. Versie was of the Pentecostal faith, and loved her family, going to yard sales, and looking out her window at the humming birds and flowers...

SIKESTON — Thomas Eugene Ellison, 93, a lifelong resident of Sikeston, passed away Tuesday, June 29, 2021, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born May 12, 1928, in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, to the late Reuben McClellan and Martha Caroline (Lindsey) Ellison. He had served in the United States Army as a Sergeant during WWII...