OBITUARIES
Reba W. Ward
Jan 10, 2020
Reba W. Ward of Jackson, daughter of late Freda Frank "Pete" and Ella Miller Brazel, was born in Dexter on March 28, 1932, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on January 10, 2020, at the age of 87 years, 9 months and 13 days. She lived in Dexter most of her life and...
Travis LeRoy Wayne Dodson
Jan 9, 2020
Travis LeRoy Wayne Dodson of Parma, son of Matthew Alexander and Ashley LeeAnn Powers Dodson, was born in Cape Girardeau on October 13, 2019, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County on January 9, 2020, at the age of 2 months and 27 days. Surviving are his parents, Matthew and Ashley Dodson of Parma; three brothers,...
Doris Lee Leggett
Jan 7, 2020
Doris Lee Leggett of Bloomfield, daughter of the late Eldon Thomas and Clara Wright Stroup, was born in Bell City, Missouri on January 30, 1924, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on January 7, 2020, at the age of 95 years, 11 months and 8 days. She had lived in Bloomfield all of...
Mary Bonee
Jan 5, 2020
Mary Bonee of Parma, daughter of late Henry Estell and Mammie Lucille Gamble Turner, was born in on May 29, 1948, and passed away at her granddaughter, Ashlee's home in Parma, Missouri on January 5, 2020, at the age of 71 years, 8 month and 24 days. She lived in the Clarkton area most of her life and worked at...
Billy Dean Lee
Jan 4, 2020
Billy Dean Lee of Bloomfield, son of the late Steve and Pearl McDowell Gibbs, was born in Toppertown, Missouri on April 14, 1933, and passed away at the Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau on January 4, 2020, at the age of 86 years, 8 months and 21 days. After his parents deaths, he was adopted by the late Charlie and...
Norma Gean Stroup
Jan 1, 2020
Norma Gean Stroup of Bloomfield, daughter of the late Henry and Martha Cates Phillips, was born in the Buckhorn Community, Missouri on November 22, 1926, and passed away at her home near Bloomfield, Missouri on January 1, 2020, at the age of 93 years, 1 month and 10 days. She had lived in Bloomfield & Aquilla all of her life....
Bill Jordan
Dec 18, 2019
William Richard "Bill" Jordan of Batchelor, Louisiana, son of the late Loy and Mable Irbin Jordan, was born in Morehouse, Missouri on December 22, 1939, and passed away at his home in Batchelor, Louisiana, December 18, 2019, at the age of 79 years, 11 months and 26 days. Bill had been raised in the Morehouse and Essex Communities and had...
Thomas Allen Crowe
Dec 14, 2019
Thomas Allen Crowe, son of the late Cecil and Mildred Patterson Crowe was born August 20, 1928 at Powe, Missouri and passed away at the age of 91, December 14, 2019 at his home in Dexter.
Mr Crowe was united in marriage to Nadine Douglas on September 8, 1950. Mrs. Crowe survives of the home in Dexter. Besides his wife, he...
Mary Blankinship
Dec 8, 2019
Mary Blankinship of Parma, daughter of the late Arthur and Myrtle Gillbreath Neal, was born in Parma, Missouri on October 11, 1931, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff on December 8, 2019, at the age of 88 years, 1 month and 27 days.
She had lived in Parma all of her life, had worked...
Penny Johnson
Nov 29, 2019
Penny L. Johnson of Bloomfield, daughter of the late Billy Gene and JoAnn Olive Flecther Jarrell, was born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on November 11, 1966, passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on November 29, 2019, at the age of 53 years, 0 months and 18 days.
Penny had lived in Bloomfield all of her...
Virginia Lee Hampton
Nov 20, 2019
Virginia Lee Hampton of Bloomfield, daughter of the late Lloyd and Ruth Mae Bennett Cox, was born in Bloomfield, Missouri on December 5, 1936, and passed away at the Bloomfield Nursing Center in Bloomfield, Missouri on November 20, 2019, at the age of 82 years, 11 months and 15 days.
She moved to Michigan as a young lady and spent many...
Mike Hess
Nov 19, 2019
Mike Hess of Dexter, son of Kathryn Imogene Colbert Hess and the late Roy Franklin Hess, was born in Lilbourn, Missouri on November 1, 1960, passed away at his home in Dexter on November 19, 2019, at the age of 59 years and 18 days.
Mike had lived in Parma before moving to Dexter thirty years ago.
On April 5, 2005, he...
Evelyn Hardin
Nov 15, 2019
Mary Evelyn Hardin of Bloomfield, daughter of the late Charles Frank and Idalee Walker Rampley, was born near Bell City, Missouri on September 5, 1937, and passed away at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri on November 15, 2019, at the age of 82 years, 2 months and 10 days.
She had lived in Bloomfield most of her life....
Pauline Brown
Nov 13, 2019
Pauline Brown, formerly of Puxico, Missouri, daughter of the late Finis High and Ethel (Dennis) Lawson, was born October 22, 1934, in Imboden, Arkansas and passed away on November 13, 2019, at the Fountain View Manor in Granite City, Illinois at the age of 85 years and 22 days.
Pauline had lived in St John, MO before moving to Puxico, MO...
Ethel Reatha Cravens
Nov 12, 2019
Ethel Reatha Cravens of Parma, daughter of the late Daniel J. and Dora E. Howard Painter, was born in Hartville, Missouri on February 2, 1919, and passed away at the New Madrid Living Center in New Madrid on November 12, 2019, at the age of 100 years, 9 months and 10 days.
She had lived in Parma since 1937. She was...
Paul D. Hayes
Nov 12, 2019
Paul D. Hayes of Essex, son of the late James Leslie "Less" and Flossie Marie Hunt Hayes, was born in Dudley, Missouri on November 2, 1940, passed away at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter, Missouri on November 12, 2019, at the age of 79 years and 10 days.
Paul had lived in the Essex area most of his...
Lester Teets
Nov 9, 2019
Lester "Jimmy" Teets of Dexter, son of the late Lester LeRoy and Pearl Ann Arnett Teets, was born in Swinton, Missouri on January 17, 1930, passed away at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Missouri on November 9, 2019, at the age of 89 years, 9 months and 23 days.
Jimmy had lived in the Dexter area most of his life....
George Allan Frye
Nov 5, 2019
George Allan Frye of Dexter, son of the late George Sharpe and Myrtle Marie Northsworthy Frye, was born in Detroit, Michigan on August 14, 1954, and passed away at his recent home with his wife in Dexter, November 5, 2019, at the age of 65 years, 2 months and 22 days.
George had lived in Cumberland, Maryland before moving to Missouri in 2006....
Paula Doublin
Nov 1, 2019
Paula Doublin, 60, of Allen Texas, formerly of Puxico, MO passed away November 1, 2019, in Allen Texas.
Paula was born on July 25, 1959, in Poplar Bluff Missouri, to Jack and Ruth Doublin of Puxico. Upon graduating from Southeast Missouri State University she moved to Texas and started her career with Southwestern Bell Telephone. During her time with them, she...
Opal Waldrup Gasser
Oct 2, 2019
Opal Gasser of Arlington, Tennessee, daughter of the late Alonzo and Irene Strong Waldrup, was born in Crowder, Missouri on October 23, 1920, and passed away at the Methodist North Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on October 2, 2019, at the age of 98 years, 11 months and 9 days.
She had lived in Dudley, where she and her husband were farmers,...
