HOWARDVILLE - DeAnna Moore is the mother of her second daughter, Johndeja Tysha, born at 5:50 a.m. April 3, 2005, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. The baby weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces at birth and was 19.25 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Charlie Mae Moore and Alex Saddler.
LILBOURN - Chantal Stokes is the mother of her third child, third daughter, born at 7:46 p.m. April 1, 2005, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. LeeKyra Shannice Ty'Shae Stokes arrived weighing 6 pounds and 5 ounces and was 19.75 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Rosie Givens and Edgar Givens of New Madrid.
PORTAGEVILLE - Louis and Hope Ashby are the parents of twin daughters born April 1, 2005, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. Mary Margaret was born at 8:45 a.m. weighing 5 pounds and 6 ounces and was 17. 75 inches in length. Rosemary was born at 8:47 a.m.; she weighed 4 pounds and 11 ounces and was 17.5 inches long. They have an older brother.
Mrs. Ashby is the daughter of Betty Ellington and the late John Girvin Ellington.
A maintenance supervisor, Ashby is the son of Geraldine Joy Ashby and Samual James Ashby III.
SIKESTON - Rebecca Marie McCoy and Adam Shane Powers are the parents of their first child, a son, born at 1:32 p.m. April 1, 2005, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. Elijah Shane Powers arrived weighing 7 pounds and 5 ounces and was 20-inches long.
The daughter of Carolyn McCoy and Abner McCoy, McCoy is employed as an associate in the jewelry department at Wal-Mart.
Employed with Pepsi, Powers is the son of Aimee Marshall and Tyrone Marshall.