Stories from Monday, May 24, 2021

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Mary Ada Belle Kellams, 88, died May 23, 2021, at Gideon Care Center. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville with the Rev. John Compere officiating. Burial will be in the Portageville Cemetery...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Charlene Davis of East Prairie, age 89, passed away Saturday, May 22, 2021. Charlene was born Aug. 3, 1931, in East Prairie, daughter of the late Otto Conn and Gladys Lippmann. Charlene was co-owner of the L.D. Davis Lumber Company before retiring...

SIKESTON — Bobbie Denise Shelton Wheatley, 57, died Thursday, May 20, 2021, at the University of Missouri Medical Center in Columbia. She was born June 4, 1963, at Sikeston, to the late Bob Shelton and Ruth Mae Warren Shelton and had lived in Sikeston most of her life.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — James Edward Starnes, 69, died at his home on April 5, 2021, in Newport Beach. He was born in Sikeston, Missouri, on Feb. 29, 1952, the son of G.H. and Bernadine (Gleason) Starnes. He was a member of the Sons of the American Legion. ...