Stories from Monday, December 5, 2022

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Jean Lloyd, 69, died Dec. 2, 2022, at New Madrid Living Center in New Madrid. She was born April 19, 1953, to Edward and Dolly Becknell Beavers. She was a New Madrid County Central High School graduate. On June 20,1986, she married Erwin Lloyd. ...

At 3:34 p.m. Friday the Portageville Fire Department was dispatched for a residential fire on County Highway 315 north of Portageville. Engine 1 responded and while in en route observed heavy black smoke from miles away. A second alarm was called into to dispatch bringing an additional engine and tanker support from Marston. ...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Albert Vernon Goodin IV, age 84, a resident of Charleston, died Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Born May 7, 1938, at Cape Girardeau, to the late Albert Vernon Goodin III and Virginia Elizabeth Whitehead Goodin, he had lived in Charleston his entire life.