Stories from Monday, August 23, 2021

SIKESTON — A Portageville, Missouri, man was killed and a Chaffee, Missouri, man seriously injured in separate all-terrain vehicle crashes Saturday in Southeast Missouri. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the first crash occurred at 5:14 p.m. ...

PADUCAH, Ky. — Rebekah Ruth Crotchett Sikes, 88, died Aug. 22, 2021, at Delta South Nursing Care and Rehab in Sikeston, Missouri. Visitation is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 10 a.m. to service time at 11 a.m. Friday at Gospel Assembly Church. Burial will follow at Doyle Cemetery in Burna, Kentucky...

SIKESTON — Ruby Mae Parks, age 87, passed away Aug. 20, 2021, at her residence in Sikeston. She was born Sept. 12, 1933, in Kewanee, Missouri, daughter of the late Forrest E. and Nora V. Taylor. She was of the Pentecostal faith, a member of the American Legion Henry Meldrum Post Ladies Auxiliary and a member of the Sikeston Eagles. She had worked as a cook for Sikeston Public Schools before retiring...

Sikeston R-6 schools, along with most other districts, started back to school this week, with Sikeston students returning to the classroom on Monday.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Matthew Marvin Lynn Butrum, age 47, formerly of Sikeston, Missouri, died Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021, at his home in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 1, 1974, at Sikeston, to Marvin Butrum and Carolyn Long Butrum.