OBITUARIES
Robert C. Blackler
Jan 26, 2020
Robert C. Blackler of Dexter, son of Bessie Blackler and the late George Curtis Blackler, was born in Hannibal on May 14, 1947, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff on January 26, 2020, at the age of 72 years, 8 months and 12 days. He had lived in California before moving to Dexter...
Wade Vancil
Jan 22, 2020
Wade Vancil of Dexter, son of Doran and Wanda Jones Vancil, was born in Poplar Bluff on November 27, 1965, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter on January 22, 2020, at the age of 54 years, 1 month and 26 days. He had lived in the Dexter area all of his life. He...
Betty Lou Jordan
Jan 22, 2020
Betty Lou Jordan of Batchelor, Louisiana, daughter of the late Homer Daniel and Diana Vergie Ritchie Parrish, was born in Mulberry, Arkansas on October 2, 1939, and passed away at the nursing home in Batchelor, Louisiana, January 22, 2020, at the age of 80 years, 3 months and 20 days. Betty had been raised in the Morehouse and Essex Communities...
Ira Avery, Jr.
Jan 13, 2020
Ira Avery, Jr. of Whitewater, son of late Ira, Sr. and Sophia Ann Kelly Avery, was born in Clines Island on June 4, 1923, and passed away at his home near Whitewater on January 13, 2020, at the age of 96 years, 7 months and 9 days. He was born, raised, attended church and school at Clines Island in Stoddard...
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...
