Stories from Friday, November 10, 2017

Three Rivers College has opened nominations for its 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award. The award recognizes the accomplishments and achievements of the College’s graduates and former students. The award will be given at a recognition reception hosted by the College in spring 2018. The nomination deadline for the award is December 11...

But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. -- Romans 8:24-25

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. — The Valle Catholic Warriors continued their reign in Class 1, District 1, defeating visiting Hayti 42-18 to claim their 10th straight district title. Valle opened the game with a 13-play, 72-yard drive, capped off by a Carter Roth 5-yard touchdown run. Hayti fumbled on their opening drive and Valle capitalized with a 10 yard touchdown pass from Mason Skaggs to Roth and Valle led 14-0 midway through the opening quarter...

Top harvest counties were Greene with 100, Texas with 95, and Dent with 94.

MDC staff will stock more than 75,000 of the cold-water-loving fish in 32 urban-area lakes throughout the state.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that young hunters ages 6 through 15 harvested 17,222 deer during Missouri’s early youth portion of the 2017 deer hunting season, which ran Oct. 28-29. Top counties for the early youth portion were Osage with 380, Howell with 377, and Franklin with 354 deer checked. Last year’s harvest total for the early youth portion was 11,171...

I’ve done a lot of town halls around Missouri—nearly 50 of them just this year—many in rural areas that remind me of where I grew up, in Houston, and Lebanon, Missouri.   These are communities of working families, some of whom are living paycheck-to-paycheck, trying to earn enough money to pay their bills, afford their prescription drugs, or try to put their kids through college. These are folks who want to see a fairer system for the middle class—and I agree with them...

In order to serve his clients better, the Law Office of Shawn D. Young has hired Kimberly J. Carter to assist him and take on new customers at his Portageville practice. Carter is no stranger to the Missouri Bootheel. She was raised in Pemiscot County, and is a 1994 graduate of Hayti High School...

JEFFERSON CITY -- This past January, Missourians were reminded of the hazards that cab come with a Show-Me State winter and the importance of being prepared and monitoring the weather forecast. Beginning Jan. 12 much of the state was impacted by freezing rain and accumulating ice that impacted roads and power lines. ...

SIKESTON -- Students, community members and veterans filled the Sikeston Field House Friday morning to hear one of their own -- decorated military veteran Brigadier General Glenn Hagler -- address the crowd during the annual Veterans Day Ceremony. Hagler, a 1984 graduate of Sikeston High School who serves as the vice director of the National Guard Bureau in Arlington, Va., delivered the keynote address during the Friday's program, which honored Southeast Missouri military veterans...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Lois Mary Eastwood, 88, died Nov. 9, 2017, at Southeast Hospital. Born Sept. 26, 1929, in New Hamburg, daughter of the late Otto Charles and Mamie Westrich Scheeter, she was a homemaker. On Jan. 13, 1951, she married J.C. Eastwood, and he preceded her in death on Nov. 2, 2006...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Billy Gene Cogdill, 83, died Friday, Nov. 10, 2017, at his home in East Prairie. Born March 17, 1934, in the Deventer Community of Mississippi County, son of the late Jim and Hazel Lane Cogdill, he was a 1952 graduate of Charleston High School and had lived in East Prairie most of his life. He worked in the agricultural industry most of his life until he retired. He was a beloved Husband, Father, Grandfather and Friend...

DELTA, Mo. -- Ivan "IJ" Lesch Jr., 68, died Nov. 9, 2017, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Born Oct. 22, 1949, in Allenville, son of the late Ivan Edward and Retha Gertrude Lands Lesch, he worked for the lasting department with Florsheim Shoe Factory in Cape Girardeau until his retirement in 1998. He was a member of Church of God in Delta...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Quanda Faye Visor "Gwen" Bailey, 55, died Nov. 3, 2017, at Gwinett Medical Center in Lawrenceville. Born Nov. 10, 1961, in Charleston, Mo., daughter of Doretha Visor of Charleston and the late Percy Visor Sr., she was a member of Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church in Charleston, where she served as Sunday school secretary and teacher for many years. ...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Mabel Genevieve Ray, age 75, died Nov. 10, 2017, at Bertrand Nursing Center in Bertrand. Born Jan. 2, 1942, in Reno, Ark., daughter of the late Dave and Lilly (Hart) Nichols, she was a member of Dorena Baptist Church and worked as a registered nurse before retiring...

SIKESTON -- June Eastwood, 65, died Nov. 10, 2017, at her home in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel.

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. -- Dorothy Sue Carter, 87, died Nov. 9, 2017, at New Madrid Living Center in New Madrid. Born Sept. 20, 1930, in Osceola, Ark., daughter of the late Mary Sue Vanmeter Frazier and Robert Lee Frazier, she worked at Bakers Big Star. On Oct. 2, 1966, she married Aubrey Carter, who preceded her in death on Feb. 22, 2012...