OBITUARIES
Elsie Duncan
Feb 28, 2020
Elsie Duncan of Morehouse, daughter of late Harce and Orpha Wise, was born in Morehouse on May 18, 1939, and passed away at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri on February 28, 2020, at the age of 80 years, 9 months and 10 days. She was a life long resident of Morehouse and was a member of the First...
Clementine Grace Warren
Feb 26, 2020
Clementine Grace Warren of Puxico, daughter of George Marshall and Sarah Marie Payton Warren, was born and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau on February 26, 2020. Surviving are her parents, George and Sarah Warren of Puxico; one brother, Chester Payton of Puxico; one sister, Lily Warren of Puxico; maternal grandparents, Larry & Lisa Payton...
Curley Clark
Feb 24, 2020
Albert "Curley" Clark of Dexter, son of late William Harvey and Ora Nixon Clark, was born in Jasper, Alabama on January 5, 1924, and passed away at the Hunter Acres Care Center, in Sikeston on February 24, 2020, at the age of 96 years, 1 months and 19 days. Albert was a retired brick mason, and was a veteran of...
Hazel Mae Patrick
Feb 23, 2020
Hazel Mae Patrick of Bloomfield, daughter of the late William Eli and Mary Elizabeth Lewis Johnson, was born in London, Kentucky on December 6, 1924, and passed away at her home near Bloomfield, Missouri on February 23, 2020, at the age of 95 years, 2 months and 17 days. She had lived in Bloomfield since 1948. She attended the Trinity...
Carolyn Jo Postek
Feb 14, 2020
Carolyn Jo Postek of Dexter, daughter of the late Harold Theodore and Josephine Adams Schellenger, was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 22, 1947, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter on February 14, 2020, at the age of 72 years, 4 months and 23 days. Carolyn was raised in St. Louis and...
George "Max" Terrill
Feb 12, 2020
George "Max" Terrill, the son of the late William Nathan and Eva Emmaline King Terrell, was born in Montana, Arkansas November 7, 1941, and passed away at Ridgeview Living Center in Malden on February 12, 2020, at the age of 78 years, 3 months and 6 days. George had been a resident of Bernie for many years where he worked...
Lou Maggie Ayers
Feb 12, 2020
Lou Maggie Ayers of St. Peters, daughter of the late Gomile and Viola Johnson Ayers, was born in Ozan, Arkansas on January 28, 1937, and passed away at the St. Peters Manor in St. Peters on February 12, 2020, at the age of 83 years and 15 days. Lou Maggie had been a resident of Malden for many years. She...
Dorothy Mae Wilson
Feb 9, 2020
Dorothy Mae Wilson of Bloomfield, daughter of the late Fred Luke and Vera Mae Stacey Jones, was born in Grayridge, Missouri on August 27, 1935, and passed away at the Winchester Nursing Home in Bernie, on February 9, 2020, at the age of 84 years, 5 months and 13 days. Dorothy had lived in Leora most of her life and...
Ray Edward Doerschlen
Feb 5, 2020
Ray Edward Doerschlen of Bloomfield, son of the late John Ferdinand and Addie Mae Proffer Doerschlen, was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 3, 1936, and passed away at his home in Bloomfield, on February 5, 2020, at the age of 83 years, 5 months and 2 days. Ray had lived in the Bloomfield area the past forty years....
Barb Flanigan
Jan 30, 2020
Barb Flanigan of Morehouse, daughter of late L. V. and Lois Flatt Hopper, was born in Matthews, Missouri on December 21, 1954, and passed away at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau on January 30, 2020, at the age of 65 years, 1 month and 9 days. She lived in the Morehouse and Matthews area most of her life and...
Larry "Gene" Hunsaker
Jan 30, 2020
Larry "Gene" Hunsaker of Dexter, son of the late Newton Raymond and Annie Doublin Hunsaker, was born in Essex, Missouri on September 23,1932, and passed away at the Winchester Nursing Home, in Bernie, on January 30, 2020, at the age of 87 years, 4 months and 7 days. Larry "Gene" married Billie June Edwards on February 28, 1953 in Piggott,...
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...
