Stories from Wednesday, January 15, 2020

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Bernice Scott Gilmore, 81, died Jan. 4, 2020, at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. Born March 25, 1938, in Conrand, Ark., to the late Algen and Essie Bruce Scott, she was a member of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church in New Madrid. She was employed as a Head Start Aide many years ago, and she was a homemaker until she retired. She was a caregiver for many years...

I just want to say thank you the Morehouse Police Chief Jackie Hayes for the way he handled my brother’s death. He went above and beyond his duty. And I want to say thank you to Nunnelee Funeral Chapel and Grant Atchley for all the help they have been as well. They have all been so kind and have went above and beyond.

DEXTER, Mo. — Pauline M. Duke, age 99, formerly of Dogwood, Missouri and Sikeston, Missouri, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She was born March 3, 1920, in Marston, Missouri, daughter of the late Lee and Emma Heath Matthews, and was a member of Dogwood United Methodist Church in Dogwood...

SIKESTON —Bobby Taylor, 85, died Jan. 14, 2020, at Delta South Nursing Care in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.