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June Calendar Girl
(Local News ~ 06/03/22)
SIKESTON — Leilani Smith, daughter of Nicole Logan and Roman Smith, is the Standard Democrat’s Calendar Girl for the month of June. Smith plans to attend Southeast Missouri State University where she will pursue a degree in nursing. Smith was student body president, varsity volleyball member and the recipient of the President’s Scholarship from Southeast Missouri State University. ...
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Speakout
(Opinion ~ 06/03/22)
No dictatorship is benevolent. No authoritarian and no totalitarian government is benevolent.
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Barbara Love
(Obituary ~ 06/03/22)
SIKESTON — Barbara Ellen Bridges Love, age 87, died Thursday, June 2, 2022, at her home in Sikeston. She was born May 30, 1935, at Clarksville, Arkansas, to the late Baxter Lee “B.L.” Bridges and Velma Mae White Bridges. Barbara had lived most of her life in Sikeston where she had been employed at Britt’s Department Store and then later as a librarian with Sikeston Public Library for a number of years until her retirement. ...
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Donna Groves
(Obituary ~ 06/03/22)
MOREHOUSE, Mo. — Donna Kay Groves, daughter of the late Herschel DeWitt and Linda Mitchell DeWitt, was born on Feb. 27, 1961, in Sikeston, Missouri, and departed this life on June 2, 2022, at her residence in Morehouse at the age of 61 years. Mrs. Groves was a homemaker, and she was a member of the Essex Church of Christ in Essex, Missouri...
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Sally Basarich
(Obituary ~ 06/03/22)
CHARLESTON, Mo. — Sally Sue Basarich, 78, died June 1, 2022, at her home in Charleston. Visitation is from 10 a.m. until service time at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 7 at the United Methodist Church in Charleston. The Rev. J Robert Webster, pastor, will officiate...
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George Pulliam Sr.
(Obituary ~ 06/03/22)
ESSEX, Mo. — George C. Pulliam Sr., son of the late Thomas Pulliam and Evelyn Wyatt Pulliam, was born on Dec. 16, 1946, in Doniphan, Missouri, and departed this life on June 2, 2022, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri, at the age of 75 years...
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Sikeston R-6 begins strategic planning process
(Local News ~ 06/03/22)
SIKESTON —The Sikeston R-6 School District announced this week it’s working throughout the summer on a process to create a new strategic plan for the district. “WeAreSikeston isn’t just a hashtag,” Sikeston R-6 Superintendent Shannon Holifield said. “We understand that to be the heartbeat of a town, a school district must include the entire community in its decision-making processes.”...
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Lieutenant’s military path included ‘band of brothers’
(Local News ~ 06/03/22)
An oak tree grows in the front yard of Jill and Riley Bock, planted at their New Madrid (Missouri) property when Jill was pregnant with her son, Amos Camden Riley Bock. Twenty-four years later, somewhere near Baghdad, Camden would fall in service to his country...
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Jessica Organ
(Obituary ~ 06/03/22)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Jessica Organ, age 75, passed away Friday, June 3, 2022, at her home in East Prairie. She was born April 8, 1947, in East Prairie, daughter of the late Jessie Robert Lee Hopper and Pearl Louise Edwards Hopper. On May 13, 1972, she was married to Jerry Ellis Organ; he preceded her in death...
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Charles Downs
(Obituary ~ 06/03/22)
SIKESTON — Charles Glen Downs, 86, formerly of Risco, Missouri, died June 2, 2022, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.
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