Stories from Sunday, February 10, 2013

DEXTER - Bobby Lee Cowart, 68, died Feb. 8, 2013, at the Puxico Nursing and Rehab Center in Puxico. Arrangements are incomplete at the Watkins and Sons Funeral Service of Dexter.

BENTON -- Elizabeth Cannon, 87, died Feb. 8, 2013, at her son's home in Benton. Arrangements are incomplete at the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston.

BERNIE -- Shirley "Red" Lamunion, died Feb. 9, 2013, at the Malden Nursing Center in Malden. Arrangements are incomplete at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie.

SIKESTON -- Pallbearers at services conducted Friday at Ponder Funeral Home for Bobby R. Conley, 81, who died Feb. 4, 2013, were: Mike O'Guinn, James Adams, Pete Glaus, Jim Reece, Mike Maze and Ryan Whitman.

COMMERCE -- John Wayne Melton, 64, died Feb. 7, 2013, at the Hunter Acres Caring Center in Sikeston. Born Aug. 28, 1948, in Cape Girardeau, to the late John "Jay" and Justine T. Kuss Melton, he worked at Melton's 66 Service Station in Cape Girardeau...

PUXICO -- Gladys Page, 91, died Feb. 7, 2013, at the Southeast Missouri Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Aug. 19, 1921, in Ashervillle, daughter of the late James Louis and Lillian Agusta Beights Hodge, she was a lifelong resident of Puxico and attended the Hobbs Chapel Church in Dudley...

I must share a conversation I had this week with a Sikeston woman concerning the lack of jobs in our community. Now first let me tell you this is a woman whom I respect. She is an intelligent woman who has called Sikeston home for a number of years...