Stories from Tuesday, June 25, 2024

SIKESTON — Catherine Coughenour Sikes, age 78, of Sikeston died Saturday, June 22, 2024, at her home. Born March 7, 1946, in Columbus, Ohio, to the late Ralph Merriam and Virginia Martindale Coughenour, she attended Parkview High School in Springfield, Missouri. She graduated in 1968 from Drury College with a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education, where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi national sorority. She served as president from 1967-1968...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Susan Jean Dark Bruenderman, 78, died June 23, 2024, at Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston, Missouri. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

SIKESTON — John Stephen Holbert, age 70, passed away on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born on Aug. 30, 1953, in Knoxville, Tennessee, to the late Rufus “John” and Bobbie Jean Smith Holbert. On Feb. 7, 2009, in Franklin, Tennessee, he married Laura Chaney Knoeppel Holbert, who survives of the home in Sikeston...

MOREHOUSE, Mo. — Gary Lynn Collier, 68, died June 23, 2024, at Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis, Missouri. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Sikeston, Missouri.

ROLLA, Mo. — Janet Hall Vaughn-Gilder, daughter of the late Larry Hall and Frances Goodrich Hall, was born on July 27, 1945, in rural Essex, Missouri, and departed this life on June 21, 2024, at her son’s residence in Rolla at the age of 78 years. Mrs. ...

SIKESTON — Ernest “Butch” Molloy, age 83, passed away on June 24, 2024, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He was born on May 16, 1941, in Appleton, Arkansas, to the late William Haney and Telly Martin Molloy. On Sept. 29, 1966, in Sikeston, he married Donna Sue George Molloy who survives of the home in Sikeston...

JACKSON, Tenn. — Anna Elizabeth McKibben Womack, age 100, passed away of natural causes on June 22, 2024, at her residence in Jackson, Tennessee. She was supremely loved by her family and by countless friends and acquaintances for her continual kindness and smiling graciousness to everyone around her...

SIKESTON — James Smith (Eddie Bo), age 83, passed away June 21, 2024, at Saint Francis Medical Center, surrounded by family, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He was born July 19, 1940, in New Madrid County, Missouri, son of the late Chester O’dell Smith and Lucille Farrenburg Smith...

SIKESTON — Toleitha Darlene Forrest-Campbell, 65, died June 25, 2024, at her home in Sikeston. Visitation is from 9:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 28 at McMikle Funeral Home in Sikeston. Burial will follow in the Garden of Memories Cemetery.

SIKESTON —Terry Ransom, age 75, passed away June 24, 2024, at his home in Sikeston. Visitation will be held Saturday, June 29 from 11 a.m. until time of funeral services at 1 p.m. at Ponder Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the Sikeston Garden of Memories Cemetery...