Stories from Tuesday, June 21, 2022

ST. PETERS, Mo. — Private graveside services for Bernadine Hann Evans of St. Peters, formerly of Elsberry, Missouri, will be held later this month at St. Alphonsus Cemetery in Millwood, Missouri. Father Charles Tichacek, pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Elsberry, will officiate...

SIKESTON — Margaret L. Bell was born Nov. 14, 1932, to Lawrence and Virginia Tillotson in Indiana Harbor, Indiana. She grew up in Gary, Indiana, where she had four children with Charles Hollies. She married Joe Bell in July 1976 and expanded her family with four additional children...

Crude oil prices dropped at the end of last week following Wednesday’s move by the Federal Reserve Board to raise interest rates by 0.75%. According to an American Automobile Association analysis, the anticipated slowing in economic growth because of the recent rate hike could cause crude demand to decline — and with it, perhaps a drop in prices at the pump...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. — Eric Pendergrass, 30, has had a busy life to-date. He’s been a hog farmer in Bell City, Missouri, where he graduated high school; a banjo player in a bluegrass band playing in benefits and at churches; and, come Jan. 1, Pendergrass will become the new owner of Hutchings Funeral Chapel, 203 Bass St. in Marble Hill, Missouri...

BROSELEY, Mo. — After much discussion, the Twin Rivers School Board voted unanimously at its Thursday night meeting to accept a four-day school week. The board was presented with three calendar options that had been organized by faculty for the upcoming school year, each calendar varying in the start and stop times, as well as calendar days...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook on Monday removed a campaign video by Republican Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens that shows him brandishing a shotgun and declaring that he’s hunting RINOs, or Republicans In Name Only. In the ad, Greitens, a former Missouri governor who resigned in disgrace in 2018, is flanked by a tactical unit outside a home on a tree-lined street as he whispers, “The RINO feeds on corruption and is marked by the stripes of cowardice,” using a term popularized by former President Donald Trump and his allies to deride moderate or establishment Republicans.. ...

MOREHOUSE, Mo. — Joe William Hughes, age 87, a resident of Morehouse, died Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at Delta South Nursing Center in Sikeston, Missouri. Born Jan. 26, 1935, at Dudley, Missouri, to the late Will Hughes and Rhoda Stroud Hughes, he had lived in the Morehouse area most of his life and had been employed as a brick layer and in construction until his retirement. He was a member of The Sanctuary in Sikeston...

SIKESTON — Jane Marion Grant Stevener, age 97, a resident of Sikeston, died Friday, June 17, 2022, at the Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. She was born Aug. 7, 1924, at Alliance, Ohio, to the late Fred Grant and May Jewell Grant.