Stories from Wednesday, August 21, 2019

I don’t understand these people that are half dead until somebody comes around going somewhere. They’re just hurtin’ so bad they can’t move or something but if somebody comes around going somewhere, boy, they’re in the car. I don’t care if they’re going five miles or a 1,000, they can go. I just don’t understand that. If you’re sick, you’re sick. You don’t feel like getting out or anything. You get tired of hearing some people whine about how tired they feel but they’re on the road all time. If anybody is on the road. Alrighty. Thank you.

COMMERCE, Mo. — Barbara Ann Jackson, 76, passed away Aug. 16, 2019, at her home in Commerce. Born Aug. 8, 1943, in Parma, she was the daughter of the late Charlie and Blythe Whitaker Lawrence. Her husband, Bennie Jackson, survives of the home. Other survivors include: one daughter, Cristy Ramsey of Scott City; one son and daughter-in-law, Cliff and Tessa Jackson; five sisters, Lorene Tonsend of Parma, Thelma and Bobby Tatum of Batesville, Ark., Geraldine and Glen Atchley of Weir, Kan., Carol Lawrence of Parma and Vivian Hunt of Dexter; three brothers, Charles Lawrence and Jimmy Lawrence of Sikeston and Harold Lawrence of Dexter.. ...