OBITUARIES
Bertie Wright
Apr 11, 2014
Bertie Marie Wright, daughter of the late Mona and Lula Fry Crabb, was born in Puxico, Missouri on August 20, 1920, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center on April 11, 2014, at the age of 93 years, 7 months and 22 days. She had lived in the Puxico area all her life. On June 13, 1936,...
Carroll McAfee
Apr 10, 2014
Carroll E. McAfee, age 83 of Sikeston, died Thursday, April 10, 2014, at the Missouri State Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born on September 24, 1930, in Caraway, Ark., to the late Clyde and Ruth Moore McAfee. Carroll grew up on a cotton farm near Caraway, Ark., surrounded by nine siblings and guided by his parents. Growing up...
Margaret Hill
Apr 7, 2014
Margaret A. Hill, daughter of the late Alton and Fannie Lee Hamilton Phillips, was born in Cordova, Alabama on August 20, 1921, and passed away at the Clearview Nursing Home in Sikeston, Missouri on April 7, 2014, at the age of 92 years. She had made her home in Morehouse since 1953. On December 11, 1956, she was married to...
William Woodruff
Apr 6, 2014
William "Sonny" Woodruff, son of the late William Cairl and Lillie Jane Stephens Woodruff, was born in Dexter, Missouri on March 29, 1938, and passed away at his home in Dexter, Missouri on April 6, 2014, at the age of 76 years. He had lived in Dexter, Missouri all of his life. He had worked at Purolator and as a...
Eugene Woodall
Apr 6, 2014
Eugene Woodall, son of the late Herman and Lillie Dubois Woodall, was born in Williford, Arkansas on August 11 1935, and passed away at his home in Matthews, Missouri on April 6, 2014, at the age of 78 years. He had lived in Matthews, Missouri most of his life. He had worked at Noranda as a maintenance mechanic before his...
Michael Kingree
Apr 5, 2014
Michael Dow Kingree, son of the late Dow and Velma Lee McRoy Kingree, was born in Dexter, Missouri on August 19, 1950, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter, Missouri on April 5, 2014, at the age of 63 years. Mr. Kingree had lived Southeast Missouri and Bloomfield most of his life. He was...
James Davis
Apr 4, 2014
James Roy Davis, son of the late William Franklin and Melvina Miller Davis, was born in Henderson, Kentucky on July 9, 1923, and passed away at the Puxico Nursing Center in Puxico on April 4, 2014, at the age of 90 years, 8 months and 25 days. He had moved to the Puxico area in 1950. He had worked for...
Barbara Taylor
Apr 3, 2014
Barbara Ann Taylor, daughter of the late Norris and Susie Lucille Thrower Temples, was born near Dudley, Missouri on September 3, 1936, and passed away at the Eunice Smith Nursing Home in Alton, Illinois on April 3, 2014, at the age of 77 years. She had grown up in the Dudley area and had lived in Florissant, Missouri for many...
Virginia McClain
Apr 1, 2014
Virginia L. "Jenny" McClain, daughter of the late Frelan D. and Nellie Rush Witaker, was born in Bollinger County, Missouri on December 25, 1924, and passed away her home in Lake St. Louis, Missouri on April 2, 2014, at the age of 89 years. She had lived in St. Charles and Bloomfield, Missouri before moving to Lake St. Louis two...
Mary Binford
Mar 30, 2014
Mary Ellen Binford, daughter of the late Robert and Mary Jane McDaniel Midgett, was born in Puxico, Missouri on September 21, 1933, and passed away at her home in Puxico, Missouri on March 30, 2014, at the age of 80 years, 5 months and 9 days. She had lived in the Puxico area all of her life. She was a...
Kenneth Breitweg
Mar 27, 2014
Kenny Breitweg, son of the late William John Breitweg, Jr. and Virginia Blackstone Breitweg, was born in Long Beach, California on July 7, 1943, and passed away at his home in Swinton, Missouri on March 27, 2014, at the age of 70 years. Mr. Breitweg had lived in California and Arkansas until moving to the Swinton area eighteen years ago....
Mark Hatfield
Mar 24, 2014
Mark E. Hatfield, son of Willa Neal Hatfield Gardner and the late Cleo Edward Hatfield, was born in Hammond, Indiana on September 15, 1952, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter, Missouri on March 24, 2014, at the age of 61 years, 6 months and 9 days. He had been raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee,...
Amos Burleson
Mar 15, 2014
Amos Burleson, the son of the late Johnny Jackson and Olar Lee Ward Burleson, was born in Warr Acres, Oklahoma on September 16, 1943, and passed away at his home near Dexter, Missouri on March 15, 2014, at the age of 70 years, 5 months and 27 days. Mr. Burleson had lived in Dexter & Southeast Missouri most of his...
Jerry Bollinger
Mar 14, 2014
Jerry Eugene "Beau' Bollinger, son of the late Noble Elgin and Melissa May Cooley Bollinger, was born in Morehouse, Missouri on August 29, 1950, and passed away at his home in Gerald, Missouri on March 14, 2014, at the age of 63 years. Mr. Bollinger had lived most of his life in Advance and had made his home in Gerald...
Loretta Parks
Mar 12, 2014
Loretta Jane Parks, daughter of the late Charles "Bo" and Margaret Ann Mekan Parks, was born in Dudley, Missouri on October 20, 1958, and passed away at the Holly Ridge Healthcare Center in Dexter, Missouri on March 12, 2014, at the age of 55 years, 4 months and 20 days. She had lived in Dudley, Missouri most of her life....
Thomas Smith
Mar 5, 2014
Thomas Brooks Smith, son of the late Claude and Cora Izora Shipley Smith was born in Formosa, Arkansas, on July 15, 1936, and passed away at his home in Essex, Missouri on March 5, 2014, at the age of 77 years, 7 months, and 17 days. He had lived in Morehouse and Sikeston most of his life. He was a...
Ella Mae Bates
Mar 1, 2014
Ella Mae Orr Bates, daughter of the late Henry Jefferson and Elizabelle Eddie Williams, was born in Morrilton, Arkansas on August 28, 1937, and passed away at her home in Sikeston, Missouri on March 1, 2014, at the age of 76 years, 6 months and 1 day. Mrs. Bates had lived in Morehouse, Missouri since 1960. She was a member...
Maxine Steward
Mar 1, 2014
Maxine Steward, daughter of the late Bland Gradon and Gertie Bell Menley Dennington, was born in Essex, Missouri on June 4, 1925, and passed away at her home in Malden on March 1, 2014, at the age of 88 years, 8 months and 25 days. She had lived in the Essex, Parma, Dexter and Poplar Bluff areas before moving to...
Enoch Taylor
Feb 28, 2014
Enoch Taylor, son of the late Ervin and Mary Absher Taylor, was born in Broseley, Missouri on September 13, 1932, and passed away at the Oakdale Care Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on February 28, 2014, at the age of 81 years, 5 months and 11 days. He had lived in the Broseley and Qulin, Missouri area except when he...
Epiphany Umfress
Feb 22, 2014
Epiphany Nevaeh Umfress, daughter of Matt Umfress and Whitney Danielle Gooch, was born in St. Louis, Missouri on February 13, 2014, and passed away at Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri on February 22, 2014, at the age of 9 days. Surviving are her parents, Matt Umfress and Whitney Gooch of Poplar Bluff; two brothers, Ethan Michael Davis & Aydan...
