Stories from Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Our great ancestors in England had some customs and things they carry on and get excited about and some of them’s very nice. One of them is to declare some person to be a knight or lord. It’s really a durn shame that with our government we can’t do something like that for Dr. Fauci.

MOREHOUSE, Mo.— Ray Elbert Merrick Sr., age 79, passed away Jan. 30, 2022, at his home in Morehouse. On Aug. 25, 1943, in Charter Oak, Missouri, he was born to the late Edward Dewey and Erma Isabel Malone Merrick. In 1958, in Sikeston, Missouri, he married Barbara Jeanette Merrick who survives of the home in Sikeston...

SIKESTON — John Charles Cappel Jr., of Sikeston passed away Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Colorado in a trucking accident. He was 50 years and 19 days old. He was born to Mary and John Cappel, Sr. on Jan. 9, 1972, in Tampa, Florida. He lived in Tampa until he was 7 years old and then moved with his family to Dallas, Georgia, before relocating to Sikeston, where he graduated with the class of 1989...

SIKESTON — Carol Chambers, 73, died Feb. 1, 2022, at Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston.

AURORA, Ill. — Shyree Adrianna Pullen died Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, at the Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora. She was born Dec. 24, 1992, to the late Sharla Rosanna Pullen and Pierre Jackson in Little Rock, Arkansas, and she was the granddaughter of Earnestine and Charles Pullen of Aurora, who adopted and raised her...

SIKESTON — Mary Lou Blackburn, age 82, passed away Feb. 1, 2022, at Delta South Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Sikeston. She was born on Oct. 10, 1939, in Arkabutla, Mississippi, to the late Harold and Cessell Miller Jenkins.