Stories from Monday, June 4, 2018

MATTHEWS, Mo. — Local fire fighters spent several hours Sunday trying to put out a fire at Flying J’s in Matthews. The Matthews Fire Department was aided by Sikeston, New Madrid, Portageville, Dexter, Miner and Scott County Rural while attempting to extinguish the blaze that began around 11:30 a.m...

HAYTI HEIGHTS, Mo. — Law enforcement is investigating a murder after a family dispute left a Tennessee man dead and another man in jail after an incident in Hayti Heights Sunday afternoon. According to a release from Pemiscot County Sheriff Tommy Greenwell, Pemiscot County 911 received a call of a shooting at the Hayti Heights Park at 5:28 p.m. Sunday. The caller advised Hershel Grant had shot Robert Grant, 43, of Dyersburg, Tenn., and left the scene...

Music in the Park will be held each Friday in Legion Park during the month of June from 6-9 p.m. Music will be provided by local country, blue grass, gospel and rock bands. Admission is free and is sponsored by Historic Downtown Sikeston.

The American Legion Post 114’s sixth annual barbecue cookoff competition and poker run fundraiser was held Friday and Saturday in Sikeston. A corn hole tournament and wing war was Friday and the poker run, bike games and cookoff were Saturday. Proceeds from the event benefit the Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...

SIKESTON — Bobby Patterson, age 83, passed away Saturday, June 2, 2018, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born May 2, 1935, in Essex, son of the late Floyd and Cassie Hodges Patterson, Bobby was a member of Shady Acres Church of Christ and a veteran of the United States Air Force. ...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Lewis Edward Jones, a resident of East Prairie, died June 2, 2018, at the East Prairie Nursing Center. Lewis was born Feb. 11, 1929, to the late Leonard Clyde and Frankie Emma Wolford Jones. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in East Prairie and was a farmer. On Dec. 7, 1953, he married Frankie Genieva Dunn Jones who preceded him in death on April 13, 2018...

SIKESTON — Wilma Ruedell "Rudi" Gilbertson, 88, died April 25, 2018, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.  Born Aug. 20, 1929, in East Prairie, Mo., to the late Noven and Geneva Baker Karr, she was a resident of Sikeston for over 50 years, attended East Side Church of the Nazarene and had been an expeditor of parts and materials for over 16 years at Noranda and a riverboat cook for nine years. ...

BERTRAND, Mo. – William Cox “Willie” Farquhar, 64, died June 1, 2018, at his home in Bertrand. Born Aug. 19, 1953, in East Prairie, son of the late Merell and Lynn Edith Cox Farquhar, he was employed as the owner/operator of Farquhar’s Detail Shop. He was a veteran of the United States Army and attended Wyatt Baptist Church.
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PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Patricia Ann Hollingshead, 69, died June 1, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Jan. 5, 1949, in Portageville, Mo., she was the daughter of the late Geneva Davis and Gerald  Robinson. On Dec. 5, 1970 in Livermore, Calif., she married Lawrence Eugene Hollingshead Sr.; he preceded her in death on Sept. 10, 2014...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Anna Sevic Badgley, 81, formerly of Charleston, Mo., died June 2, 2018. Born Oct. 4, 1936, daughter of the late Frank and Mildred R. Hicks Sevic, she was a retired bookkeeper and of the Pentecostal belief. On Sept. 4, 1959, she married Robert Gene Badgley, who preceded her in death on Aug. 20, 2009...