Stories from Monday, September 24, 2018

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The son of Lambert’s Cafe founder was indicted earlier this month on several sex crimes. The Springfield News-Leader reports 50-year-old Benjamin Lambert, who was previously involved in running the Lambert's Cafe location in Ozark, Mo., was indicted on five charges by a grand jury earlier this month, including two counts of sex trafficking of a child...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Gary Bruce Childers, 73, died Sept. 23, 2018, at the Delta South Nursing Center in Sikeston. Born Oct. 22, 1944, in Mississippi County, son of the late Lonnie Pershing Childers and Geneva Ivie Childers, he had lived in Mississippi County most of his life. In 1976, he went to work for Bunge Corp. and remained there until 1994 when he started Childers Construction Co., which he operated until his retirement. He was a U.S. Army Veteran...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Martha Lee Criss White, 92, died Sept. 23, 2018, at the Charleston Manor. Born April 28, 1926, in the Henson Community of Mississippi County, daughter of the late Roy and Prussia King Criss, she was a 1943 graduate of Charleston High School and a member of St. ...

AQUILLA, Mo. — Roy Ray Cochran, 90, died Sept. 21, 2018, at his home in Aquilla. Born March 20, 1928, in Russelville, Ark., son of the late Rufus and Florence Bell Freeman Cochran, he had lived in the Aquilla area most of his life. He operated a saw mill his entire life and had been a non-denominational minister...

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. — Scott Carmack, 50, died at 5:19 p.m. Sept. 20, 2018, in Hopkinsville of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. Born June 13, 1968, in Sikeston, Mo., son of Lee Carmack of Puxico and Barbara Husher Taylor of Sikeston, he was an engineer for TG Missouri and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps.