Stories from Thursday, June 23, 2022

CATRON, Mo. — Henry George Retz, age 72, passed away at his residence, in Catron on June 21, 2022. He was born April 22, 1950, at Suffern, N.Y., to Henry and Susan Birish Retz. He married his beloved Mary Ellen Willey April 25, 1970, at St. Polycarp Roman Catholic Church in Smyrna, Delaware...

NEW MADRID, Mo. - Following a plea agreement, a New Madrid man was sentenced to prison for a fatal shooting. George William Dawson III, 32, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of second degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Donta Grissom. Grissom was shot in the head by Dawson shortly before 3 a.m. Oct. 1, 2020...

Publisher of the Southeast Missourian and president of Rust Communications Jon K. Rust will be a 2022 inductee into the Missouri Press Association Newspaper Hall of Fame. Hailed as an industry innovator and community stalwart, Rust and two others will join the hall during the association’s annual convention and trade show Sept. 16 in Lake Ozark...

JACKSON, Mo. — One person has been charged in connection with the May murder of a woman. Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Welker has charged Teresa L. Baumgartner with tampering with evidence in a felony investigation for her alleged role in the disappearance and homicide of Jessi Wilfong, 20, no fixed address...

SIKESTON — Robert Murray “Bob” Mackie, age 76, passed away Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at his home in Sikeston. Bob was born Oct. 25, 1945, at Lenoir, North Carolina, to the late Henry P. Mackie Jr. and Elizabeth Fowler Mackie and grew up in Granite Falls, North Carolina.