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Ellen Medlin (9/17/21)ELWOOD, Ill. — Ellen Medlin, age 90, of Elwood, formerly of Sikeston, Missouri, passed away Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, at Salem Village Nursing and Rehabilitation in Joliet. Born Aug. 14, 1931, in Charleston, Missouri, Ellen was a daughter of George and Lucille (nee Hanley) Monan. ... -
Pamela McConkey (9/17/21)BERTRAND, Mo. — Pamela June McConkey, 63, died Sept. 17, 2021, at her home. McMikle Funeral Home of Charleston is in charge of arrangements.
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Kenneth Sneathern (9/17/21)SIKESTON — Kenneth Louis Sneathern was a caring husband, dad, grandpa, poppa Ken, brother, and friend. He went to Heaven to be with his Savior on Sept.14, 2021, at the age of 78. He battled serious medical issues courageously and with a smile. He was a tough old bird! Ken was surrounded by loved ones who will continue to honor his legacy by making the most of their own lives. He was born to Louis and Iona Sneathern on April 22, 1943, in Brentwood, Maryland. ... -
Darren Cann (9/17/21)CHARLESTON, Mo. — Darren Keith Cann, 56, prosecuting attorney of Mississippi County, Missouri, and a resident of rural Charleston, died Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021 at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri. Darren was a private person. In keeping with his wishes, a private service will be held. Interment will be next to his mother and father at the Oak Grove Cemetery near Charleston... -
John Aaron DuSablon (9/17/21)SIKESTON — On 10 September 2021, John Aaron DuSablon, 52, of Sikeston, passed away at his home. John was the second son born to Arthur B. and Beatrice DuSablon on 27 June 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri. -
Ann DeField (9/17/21)CHARLESTON, Mo. — Mildred Ann DeField, 81, died Sept. 15, 2021, at the Estates Care Center at Perryville, Missouri. Arrangements are at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.
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Alma Bechtold (9/16/21)CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Alma Mothershead Bechtold’s life ended Sept. 1, 2021, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She leaves two brothers, Hoyt Mothershead and Merlin Mothershead. Only family members gathered at the burial site due to the COVID pandemic...
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Larry Eftink (9/16/21)ORAN, Mo. — Larry G. Eftink, son of the late Leo Eftink and Josephine Eftink, was born on June 19, 1945, in Chaffee, Missouri, and departed this life on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, at the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia, Missouri, at the age of 76... -
Amber Dawson (9/16/21)NEW MADRID, Mo. — Amber Nicole Dawson, 40, of New Madrid passed away Sept. 8, 2021, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri. Amber was born Dec. 20, 1980, in Hayti, Missouri, to Pam Jones Hampton and Harold Pruitt. She is survived by her husband, Hayden Kevin Dawson; her parents, Pam Hampton and Harold (Lois)... -
Anita Parker (9/14/21)CHARLESTON, Mo. — Anita Joyce Parker, age 81, died Sept. 11, 2021, at her home. She was born Nov. 17, 1939, in East Prairie, Missouri, daughter of the late Cecil Lynch and Helen Dale Peters. Mrs. Parker was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in West Memphis, Arkansas... -
Christine Murray-Robinson (9/14/21)CHARLESTON, Mo. — Christine Marie Murray-Robinson, 65, resident of Charleston, died Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She was born May 2, 1956, in Thompson Bend, Missouri, to the late Fred and Estella Murray Coleman... -
Irene Applewhite (9/14/21)SIKESTON — Irene Applewhite, 64, passed away at her home in Sikeston on Sept. 7, 2021. She was born Feb. 24, 1957, in Sikeston, to the late Albert and Hazel (McCauley) Applewhite. She was a graduate of Sikeston High School. A visitation/service of remembrance will be held on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, at the Driver Funeral Service Chapel, 523 W. Murray Lane in Sikeston from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m... -
Shalonda Sinks-Chappell (9/14/21)CHARLESTON, Mo. — Shalonda Ann Sinks-Chappell, resident of Charleston, died Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, at Mercy Hospital Jefferson in Festus, Missouri. She was born Oct. 18, 1980, in Sikeston, Missouri, to the late Vernell Long and Kathryn Sinks. Friends may call Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, from noon until the funeral hour of 1 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, 1700 East Marshall St., in Charleston with Rev. Floyd Wade officiating... -
Bobby Gene Gray Jr. (9/14/21)SIKESTON — Bobby Gene Gray Jr., age 60, passed away Aug. 30, 2021, at his home in Stoddard County, Missouri. He was born Nov. 20, 1960, in New Madrid, Missouri, son of the late Bobby Gene Gray and Martha Bell Sumner. Survivors include his son, Bobby Gene Gray III of Sikeston; two daughters, Amber Gray Kidd of Florida and Lacy Gray Burgess of St. ... -
Ollie Brewer (9/14/21)BENTON, Mo. — Ollie Massingille Brewer, age 87, passed away on Sept. 13, 2021, at her home in Benton. She was born on March 9, 1934, in Celina, Tennessee, to the late Porter and Velma Neely Massingille. She was a member of Morley Church of Christ in Morley, Missouri... -
Lester Vance Bowles (9/14/21)BERTRAND, Mo. — Born in Sikeston, Missouri, to R.V. and Delores (Sellers) Bowles on Oct. 9, 1941, as a small boy he helped with his grandfather’s portable saw mill which operated between Bertrand and the Commerce, Missouri, area, he then moved with his parents to Liberty, Missouri, in 1952... -
Augusta Phillips (9/14/21)MARSTON, Mo. — Augusta Roy Phillips Jr., 82, died Sept. 4, 2021, at his home in Marston. A joint visitation with his wife, Shirley Phillips, 84, who died Sept., 1, 2021, will be from noon until service time at 1 p.m. Wednesday at DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville, Missouri, with the Rev. Webb Manley officiating...
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Shirley Phillips (9/14/21)MARSTON, Mo. — Shirley Ann Phillips, 84, died Sept. 1, 2021, at her home in Marston. A joint visitation with her husband, August Philips Jr., 82, who died Sept., 4, 2021,will be from noon until service time at 1 p.m. Wednesday at DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville, Missouri, with the Rev. Webb Manley officiating...
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Ronda Gladden (9/14/21)PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Ronda Lynn Gladden, 57, died Sept 10, 2021, at her home in Portagevlle. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. until service time at 5 p.m. Tuesday at DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville with the Rev. A.R. Gentry officiating.
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Mary Keenan (9/13/21)COLUMBIA, Mo. — Mary Emmaline Marston Keenan, age 93, died at the home of her daughter, Jane, in Columbia on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. She was born Aug. 3, 1928, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, to Robert and Herma Frey Marston. She lived in Venezuela only a year before her father, chief Geologist with Sun Oil, was reassigned to McAllen, Texas. -
Judy Nickell (9/13/21)SIKESTON — Judy Nickell, 78, died on Sept. 8, 2021, at her home in Sikeston. Judy was born on Sept. 18, 1942, and grew up in Lutesville, Bollinger County, Missouri. Judy was the youngest daughter of Bryan and Trilla Zimmerman and grew up on a farm where she learned the value of hard work and the benefits of hardship. ... -
Gary Birdwell (9/10/21)PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Gary Dale Birdwell, 54, died Sept. 7, 2021, at his home in Portageville. Visitation is from 1 p.m. until service time at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11 at the New Beginnings Church of East Prairie, Missouri. DeLisle Funeral Home of Portageville is in charge of arrangements...
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Jeanette Parker (9/10/21)ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Jeanette Parker, age 76, passed away Sept. 8, 2021, at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis due to complications from COVID-19. Even though Jeanette was vaccinated, she contracted the virus and could not win the fight since she was immunocompromised from cancer treatments... -
Gay N. Wilkerson (9/10/21)ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Gay N. Wilkerson, 90, was born on Aug. 15, 1931, in Ingram Ridge, Missouri, to Henry and Lorene Fields, and passed from this life on Aug. 17, 2021, at Mercy South Hospital in St. Louis. On Jan. 10, 1953, she was united in marriage to T.L. “Bo” Wilkerson in Piggot, Arkansas. He preceded her in death on Aug. 12, 1979...
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Dortys Novella McAnulty (9/9/21)SIKESTON — Dortys Novella “Ms. Dot” McAnulty, age 94, died Sept. 6, 2021, at Delta South Skilled Nursing & Rehab, in Sikeston. Born March 6, 1927, in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, the daughter of the late Homer C. Henderson and Dora Henderson (nee Holt). ... -
Marjorie Rose Phillips (9/8/21)NEW MADRID, Mo. — Marjorie Rose (McSpadden) Phillips, 93, of New Madrid, peacefully passed away Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021 at SoutheastHEALTH in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, surrounded by her loving family. She was born March 18, 1928, to the late Roy Vernon and Mariam Rose McSpadden of Van Buren, Missouri. ... -
Danny Davis (9/8/21)BENTON, Mo. — Danny Wayne Davis, 66, died Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, at his home. He was born Aug. 19, 1955, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to William Robert and Neva Dundee Dale Davis. He married Elizabeth Jane Farmer on April 19, 1997, in Benton. He worked for Foamex until his retirement in 2010... -
Lynn N. Bock (9/7/21)NEW MADRID, Mo. – Lynn Newsum Bock, 64, died Sept. 6, 2021, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo., surrounded by his children. Born Sept. 25, 1956, in St. Louis to Harry H. and Kathleen Newsum Bock, he attended Immaculate Conception School in New Madrid and Subiaco Academy in Subiaco, Ark. -
Sonya Miles (9/7/21)CHARLESTON, Mo. — Sonya Marie Wallace Miles, 61, affectionately known as “Sandra,” resident of Charleston, died Aug. 27, 2021, in Sikeston, Missouri. She was born June 9, 1960, in Wyatt, Missouri, to Evelyn Wallace and the late John Oscar Miller Jr. ... -
Rita Kidd (9/7/21)STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. — Rita Mae Kidd, age 73, passed away Sept. 3, 2021, at her home in Ste. Genevieve. She was born Sept. 2, 1948, in Qulin, Missouri, daughter of the late Buddy Monevel Morgan and Ethelene Hunt Morgan. She was married to James Kidd; he preceded her in death... -
Lillian Tolbert (9/7/21)SIKESTON — Lillian Ann “Pickle” Tolbert, age 84, of Sikeston, died Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, at Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.Born Jan. 17, 1937, at Sikeston, to the late Rev. Kelly Tolbert and Bertha King Tolbert, she had lived in the Sikeston area most of her life. -
Marsha Darnall (9/7/21)PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Marsha Darnall, 69, died Sept. 5, 2021, at Springfield, Missouri. Born Aug. 2, 1952, in Gideon, Missouri, daughter of the late Mary Evelyn Clark and Paul Darnall, she was a member of the J Y Church of Christ and enjoyed spending time outside and with her family... -
Eula Mae Hubbard (9/7/21)SIKESTON — Eula Mae Hubbard, age 91, passed away on Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, at her home in Sikeston. She was born on Sept. 22, 1929, in England, Arkansas, to the late Lloyd Phillips Sr. and Belvia Jones. On June 25, 1953, in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, she married Thomas Butler Hubbard Jr. who preceded her in death on May 15, 1978... -
H.V. Morrow (9/7/21)SIKESTON — Horace Vinson (H.V.) Morrow died Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston at the age of 93. Born Nov. 6, 1927, to the late David and Lucille Vinson Morrow, in Red Bay, Alabama. He was a graduate of Red Bay High School and later graduated from Auburn University in 1951. ... -
Sherry Bohr (9/7/21)SIKESTON — Sherry York Bohr of Sikeston passed away at her home on Aug. 29, 2021, at the age of 73. She was born on March 25, 1948, to the late Warren Allen and Alma Schaefer York. Sherry grew up in Sikeston and graduated from Sikeston High School in 1967. ... -
Bill Lawson Jr. (9/7/21)SIKESTON — Billie “Bill” Lawson Jr., age 73, passed away on Sept. 5, 2021, at his home in Sikeston. He was born on July 3, 1948, in Fort Benning, Georgia, to the late Billie and Maria Egidi Lawson Sr. He was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Sikeston... -
Jeffrey Gonos (9/7/21)ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Jeffrey Mark Gonos, a TSA Officer and resident of St. Louis, passed away Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021, at the age of 48 years old, after a 23-day battle with COVID-19. Jeff is survived by his mother and stepfather, Barbara and David McClellan; sisters, Tina McSoley and Tracy Gonos; brothers-in-law, Thomas McSoley and Paul Hayes. ... -
Justin Ward (9/7/21)NEW MADRID, Mo. — Justin Allen Ward, 36, passed away Sept. 3, 2021, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born July 31, 1985, in Hayti, Missouri, to Kenneth E. and Rose Carter Ward, who survive of New Madrid. Other survivors include: one sister, Paula and Howard Higgerson of New Madrid; two brothers, William and Ginny Ward and Ronnie and Cathy Ward of Cedar Grove, Tennessee; two special nephews, Howard Higgerson, III and Owen Higgerson, both of New Madrid; and a host of nieces and nephews.. ... -
Herman Maxwell (9/7/21)FARRENBURG, Mo. — Johnny Herman Maxwell, 85, passed away Sept. 3, 2021, at his home, He was born Jan. 11, 1936, in Lost Corner, Arkansas, to the late William Galloway and Bertha Jane Westernman Maxwell. He was married to Norma Joyce Maxwell, who preceded him in death. ... -
Barbara Jane Clay Kraus (9/7/21)Kraus, Barbara Jane (nee Clay)-It is with great sadness that her family announce the passing of Barbara Jane Clay Kraus on Sept. 1, 2021. She was born on Nov. 13, 1941, to the late Clarence “Pete” and Minnie Alice “Susie” Clay (nee Patten). She is preceded in death by both her parents; the love of her life of 60 years, Richard H, Kraus; brother, Jimmy Wayne Clay; half brother, Jerry Thomas Clay; sister-in-law, Janette Clay; sister-in-law, Carol (nee Kraus) Crump and brother-in-law, Ronald Kraus Sr. ... -
Betty Young Daniels (9/6/21)SMITHVILLE, Tenn. — Betty Jean Young Daniels, age 76, died Wednesday, July 28, 2021. She had battled cancer for several years. Born Aug. 11, 1944, in Point Pleasant, Missouri, she was the sixth of nine children born to Marvin Hal and Bertie Mae (Waynick) Young. Most of her childhood, she was raised by her beloved Aunt Emma and Uncle Chet Young and later by her dear brother-in-law, Robert E. (Bob) Bird and family of Kewanee. She attended New Madrid High School and was a 1962 graduate...
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Hazel Brumley (9/6/21)EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Hazel Christine Dodgen Brumley, 86, died Sept. 4, 2021, at her home in East Prairie. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.
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Gene Ditto (9/6/21)EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Donald “Gene” Ditto, 79, former mayor of East Prairie, died Sept. 4, 2021, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.
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Virginia Lynch (9/3/21)CHARLESTON, Mo. — Virginia Ellen Carr Lynch, 88, died Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, at her home in Charleston. Born July 2, 1933, at Charleston, to the late Leo S. Carr and Maude Perkins Carr, she was a graduate of St. Henry Catholic High School. For over 42 years, she was employed with the Brown Shoe Company in Charleston until her retirement. She was a member of the St. Henry Catholic Church in Charleston. -
Mary Jones (9/3/21)CHARLESTON, Mo. — Mary Ann Chandler Jones, 68, died Sept. 2, 2021, at her home in Charleston. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.
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Larry Gilmer (9/2/21)SIKESTON — Larry Gilmer, age 80, passed away on Aug. 23, 2021, at his home in Sikeston. He was born on May 29, 1941, in Cairo, Illinois, to the late Harland and Iler Howell Gilmer. He was a member of First United Methodist Church in Sikeston. Larry was a self-employed farmer until his retirement in 1999; he was a member of the “Matthews Coffee Shop.” He loved to crappie fish and go to his grandkids ball games... -
Harold Lenderman (9/2/21)MOREHOUSE, Mo. — Harold Lenderman, age 76, passed away on Sept. 1, 2021, at his home in Morehouse. He was born on Nov. 12, 1944, in Essex, Missouri, to the late Earl and Trudie McClain Lenderman. He was a member of the Assembly of God Church in Morehouse; Harold loved the Lord and he has now gone home to be with Him. Harold loved the outdoors and he was an avid hunter and fisherman... -
Katherine Grant (8/31/21)SIKESTON — Katherine A. Grant, 74, died on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born April 1, 1947, to the late Willie Grant and LuBirtha (James) Grant. She was a member of St. John MB Church and, for many years, was a licensed beautician in Sikeston... -
Sophia Hughes (8/31/21)SIKESTON — Sophia Anita Hughes, 53, died Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born on Nov. 22, 1967, in Lilbourn, Missouri, to Sharon Willis and the late Lester Hughes. She was a graduate of Howardville High School in Lilbourn. Sophia enjoyed cooking and gardening. She was the doting mother to her son, Lee Sharrod Hughes who survives of the home... -
Sheila Hawkins (8/31/21)SIKESTON — Shelia Hawkins, age 71, passed away on Thursday, August 26, 2021 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. She was born on Oct. 17, 1949, in Risco, Missouri, to the late Adolph and Carrie Williams Miller. She was a member at North Acres General Baptist Church in Sikeston for over 71 years. She graduated from Sikeston High School in 1968.
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