Stories from Sunday, September 25, 2016

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Police are searching for an inmate who escaped Saturday from the Mississippi County jail. At about 6 p.m. Saturday the Mississippi County Sheriff's Department received information that prisoner Edward Lusk, 49, of Bloomfield had gained access to a utility area within the detention center, according to a news release early Sunday from Marc Tragesser with Mississippi County Sheriff's Department...

SIKESTON -- Vida Bell, 91, died Sept. 24, 2016, at Clearview Nursing Home in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel.

SIKESTON -- Martha Faye Northington, 71, died Sept. 23, 2016, at her home in Sikeston. She was born Nov. 2, 1944, in Perkins, to the late John and Vernan Beatrice Miller Mouser. On Aug. 27, 1959, in Jackson, she married Paul Northington, who preceded her in death...

SIKESTON -- Mable Edwards, 81, died Sept. 24, 2016, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born April 20, 1935, in East Prairie, to the late Guy and Birdie Sterling, she was a member of Trinity Gospel Church in Sikeston for the past five years...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Rosemary Borders Pirtle, 64, died Sept. 25, 2016, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Nov. 12, 1951, at Charleston, to the late George Dewey and Nancy Oscille "Oscie" Fowler Borders, she had lived in Charleston her entire life...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Terry D. Nall, 69, died Sept. 24, 2016, at the Bertrand Nursing Center. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

SIKESTON -- Margene Reeder, 86, died Sept. 25, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements incomplete with Nunnelee Funeral Chapel.

SIKESTON - Billy Joshua "Josh" Gerhardt, 21, died Sept. 24, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Feb. 16, 1995, in Sikeston, to the late Gerald and Donna (Baker) Gerhardt, he graduated from Kelly High School in 2013 and was employed by Baker Rentals...