OBITUARIES
Connie Shanks
Sep 14, 2020
Alice Cornelia Shanks April 7, 1926 - September 14, 2020 Connie Shanks, age 94, of Bloomfield, Missouri, went home to be with his Lord, September 14, 2020. Mrs. Shanks was a faithful member of The First Baptist Church of Bloomfield, where she loved life and taking care of other through her cooking and caring ways. Her life was spent loving...
Lorene McKeller
Sep 1, 2020
Lorene McKeller of Essex, daughter of Theodore Lee and Bernice Walker Clark, was born in Essex, Missouri on Janurary 26, 1935, and passed away in Malden, Missouri on September 1, 2020, at the age of 85 years. Lorene worked for Purolator Manufacture her interests were sewing and cooking for her family. She lived in Essex, Missouri most of her life....
Jack Doublin
Aug 30, 2020
Jack Doublin passed away Sunday August 30, 2020 at the Puxico Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Puxico, Missouri. Jack was 83, and a lifetime resident of the Puxico area. Jack was born July 21, 1937, to Bedford and Mabel (Travers) Doublin. Jack married Ruth Fortner of Bloomfield on April 18, 1958, and they were together over 59 years until Ruth's...
Clara Flores
Aug 30, 2020
Clara Flores of Bloomfield, the daughter of the late Raymond and Mary Margaret Pippins Huffman, was born in Fairfax, Missouri on February 8, 1934, and passed away on August 30, 2020, at her residence in Bloomfield, Missouri, at the age of 86 years. Clara married Peter Flores, in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1963 and he precedes her in death. She...
Mindy Darby
Aug 28, 2020
Mindy Darby of Morley, daughter of Tryce Ann Mashburn Miller and late Danny Wayne Mosley was born on June 26, 1977, in Paragould Arkansas, and passed away at the Southeast Health Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on August 28, 2020, at the age of 43 years, 2 month and 2 days. She lived in Dexter area most of her life...
Tremayne Street
Aug 26, 2020
Tremayne Street, of Bloomfield, son of the late Earl Tremain and Wanda Marie Cook Street, was born in Bloomfield, Missouri, on September 21, 1933, and passed away at the New Madrid Living Center in New Madrid, Missouri on August 26, 2020, at the age of 86 years. Tremayne owned and operated Streets Auto Parts for many years in Bloomfield, Missouri...
Elmer Joe Shaw
Aug 20, 2020
Elmer Joe Shaw of Malden, son of the late James and Mozell McKeller Shaw, was born in Stoddard County, Missouri on October 4, 1950, and passed away at St. Clare Hospital in Fenton, Missouri on August 20, 2020, at the age of 69 years. He had lived in the Parma and Malden areas most of his life, he did live...
Mabel C McGowen
Aug 9, 2020
Mabel C. McGowen, 99, of Puxico, Missouri passed away August 9, 2020 at The Puxico Nusing Rehab Center, in Puxico. Mabel was born in Dudley, Missouri, daughter of the late Francis and Cloe Hazel Hargrove Hobbs. She was a homemaker and lived in Puxico all her life she enjoyed quilts and her family and was a member of the Hobbs...
Sandy Bayless
Jul 29, 2020
Sandra Kay Bayless of Dexter, the daughter of the late John Wilson and Sybil Beatrice Scott Hagy, was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 24, 1950, and passed away on July 29, 2020, at the Poplar Bluff, Regional Hospital of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at the age of 69 years. Sandy married Leonard Bayless, on 1970, in St. Louis, and...
Dorothy Lee Compton
Jul 29, 2020
Dorothy Lee Compton of Dexter, daughter of late Hubert William Hudgens and Ruby Emma Sadler Compton, was born in Dexter on October 11, 1932, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Hospital in Poplar Bluff, on July 29, 2020, at the age of 87 years. She was a life long resident of Dexter and had worked at International Hat...
Shantika Lanay Jones
Jul 19, 2020
Shantika Lanay Jones of Bernie, daughter of Elijah Edward Jones Jr. and Cora Lee Harris, was born in Kennett, Missouri on June 27, 1989, and passed away in Jackson, Michigan on July 19, 2020, at the age of 31 years. Shantika interests were in make-up, hair, artist, and singing. She lived in southeast Missouri all her life and worked in...
Jerry Lee Pennington Jr.
Jul 19, 2020
Jerry Pennington Jr, son of Wilma Baker Pennington and the late Jerry Lee Pennington Sr., was born on November 15, 1964 in Advance, Missouri and passed away, on July 19, 2020, at the age of 55 years. Jerry had lived in Puxico area all his life, he was self-employed most of his life and shared an auction business with his...
Dana Underwood
Jul 13, 2020
Dana Underwood of Dexter, the daughter of the late Kenneth Wayne and Lois Ann Moore, Prothero, was born in McCloud, California on August 4, 1961, and passed away on July 13, 2020, at the Southeast Hospital of Stoddard County, Missouri, at the age of 58 years. Dana was a homemaker, and enjoyed reading, houseplants and most of all her grandchildren,...
Vivian Joan Merideth
Jul 11, 2020
Vivian Joan Merideth, 88, of Bloomfield, Missouri passed away July 11, 2020 at her home in Bloomfield. Vivian was the daughter of the late Albert Edward and Essie Mae Pulliam Choat, she was born in Dudley, Missouri, on February 10, 1932, and was of the Pentecost faith. She was retired from housekeeper for Cypress Point Nursing Home. She enjoyed cooking,...
Evelyn Groves
Jun 30, 2020
Evelyn Groves, 67, of Bloomfield, Missouri passed away June 30, 2020 at the Bloomfield Living Center, in Bloomfield. Evelyn was the daughter of the late Virgil and Versie Blocker Lewis, she was born in Hiram, Missouri on April 12, 1953. She was a cook for restaurants in the area for before being forced to retire. She enjoyed cooking, gardening, and...
Johnnie Gray Garner
Jun 29, 2020
Johnnie Gray (Robinson) Garner was born in Indian Mound, Tennessee December 12,1930. She lived between there and Detroit, Michigan during her younger years. Later she did attend Dexter Senior High during her Freshman and Sophomore years. She married Charles William Garner May 6, 1953. As a dedicated wife and mother, she forgo other careers to care for her family. Yet,...
Bill Matthews
Jun 25, 2020
William Matthews of Bloomfield, son of the late Newt Matthews and Freda Bryant Matthews Aslin, was born in Bloomfield, Missouri, on January 12, 1928, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau on June 26, 2020, at the age of 92 years.. On December 3, 1989 he was married to Willene Gibbs, in Missouri; she precedes...
Vernon Johnson
Jun 12, 2020
Vernon "Smoky" Johnson of Parma, son of Rubel and Lottie May (Burch) Johnson, was born in Catron, Missouri, on October 11, 1922 and passed away at the Missouri State Veteran's home in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, June 12, 2020, at the age 97 years 8 months 1 day. He had been a resident of Parma for many years. He had worked...
Dorothy Sayre
Jun 8, 2020
Dorothy Louise Sayre Dorothy Louise Sayre of Dexter MO, daughter of the late Luther and May Cates, was born in Bloomfield, MO on October 15, 1925, and passed away at her home in Dexter, MO on June 8, 2020, at the age of 94 years. She lived in the Dexter area most of her life. Dorothy enjoyed being a housewife,...
Loretta Medlin Morgan
Jun 8, 2020
Loretta Medlin Morgan, 66, of Dexter, passed away June 8, 2020 at her home in Dexter.She was the daughter of the late Clifford Medlin and Wilma Shipman. Loretta was born in Dexter, Missouri and spent most of her time in Dexter, and Poplar Bluff, Missouri. She was in marketing with cable companies and SBC. She enjoyed sewing, art, gardening and...
