Stories from Saturday, March 28, 2020

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — The death of a person in St. Charles County from the coronavirus is the 10th in Missouri, and as the number of confirmed cases escalates, some of the state's biggest hospitals are being forced to "examine what all our options are" to maintain enough protective equipment...

As the coronavirus continues to creep into our area and impact our everyday lives, we are left looking for a model of how we act and react. Americans have lived through tough times through history but for many alive today, our tough times have been limited. None of us have ever lived through anything like this. We’ve lived through 9/11, we have lived through hurricanes and tornadoes and we have lived through more than one financial crisis. But nothing like this...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Thomas Craig Halstead Sr., 69, died March 24, 2020, at his home in Charleston. Born Aug. 25, 1950, in La Romana, Dominican Republic, son of the late Clint W Halstead Jr. and Dorothy L (Hestand) Halstead, he was a 1968 graduate of Massena Central High School in Massena, N.Y. ...

I would like to speak out on the small cemetery that is north of Campanella Drive on Ingram Road. I believe it is called the Hart Cemetery, it is also known as the Baby Blue Graveyard. It’s a historical place and I’ve noticed there is a bulldozer and some excavating equipment sitting back there up on top of the hill. Back a year or two ago they went in there and tore up land around it. There were rumors that they hit a few of those graves. What most people in Sikeston don’t realize is there is a small, fenced in area, that has headstones in it, there right by Ingram Road. What they don’t realize is in those woods there’s probably between 50-75 graves with headstones. It’s grown up, there are vines everywhere, people don’t even know they’re in there, but they’re in there. I’m not sure if that property is privately owned or owned by the city but it would be nice instead of them tearing it up – those graves deserve respect. It is terrible it has grown up the way that it is. I wish somebody would do a story on that or Channel 12 news would do a story on that and people would get together and clean that up. I would be more than happy to go out there and do my part and stand the headstones back up.

SIKESTON —James Carl Moore, age 78, passed away March 27, 2020, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri. Jim was born April 13, 1941, and raised near Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and served in the United States Marine Corps from 1958-1961...

PERKINS, Mo. — Dennis Agee, son of the late Ellis Agee, Kirby and Charlene Holt, was born on June 2, 1953, in Sikeston, Missouri, and departed this life on Thursday, March 26, 2020, with family at the age of 66 years.