OBITUARIES
John Whitaker
Mar 1, 2013
John Doyle Whitaker, son of the late William and Helen Myers Whitaker, was born on July 17, 1961, in Malden and passed away at his home in Bloomfield on March 1, 2013, at the age of 51 years. John had lived in Bernie and Bloomfield most of his life. He had attended the Bible Tabernacle in Bloomfield. He had worked...
Betty Joyner
Feb 25, 2013
Betty Henderson Joyner, daughter of the late George Allen and Ruth Brown Carwile, was born in Flint, Michigan on December 6, 1928, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff on February 25, 2013, at the age of 84 years. She had lived in Dexter most of her life. She had attended the First General...
Velvadean Hendrix
Feb 23, 2013
Velvadean "Dean" Hendrix, daughter of the late Richard Overton and Lula Jackson Overton Hodge was born December 25, 1926, in Zalma, Missouri. Dean passed away on February 23, 2013 at Westwood Hills Health Care Facility in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at the age of 86. She was raised in Puxico, Missouri and graduated from Puxico High School, worked at the Puxico...
Dulcia Law
Feb 19, 2013
Dulcia Buchanan Law, daughter of the late Lihue and Ida Ross Shull, was born in Puxico, Missouri on September 19, 1917, and passed away at the Clearview Nursing Home in Sikeston, Missouri on February 19, 2013, at the age of 95 years and 5 months. She lived in the Puxico and Sikeston areas, was a home maker, wife and mother....
Valentina Fish
Feb 19, 2013
Valentina Grace Fish, daughter of Jacob Michael Fish and Sheri Lynn Grippo-Fish, was still-born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on February 19, 2013. Surviving are her parents, Jacob Michael Fish and Sheri Lynn Grippo-Fish of Cape Girardeau; sister, Aslyn Titus and brother, Coleson Titus both of Cape Girardeau; maternal grandparents, Mario & Doris Grippo of Cape Girardeau; paternal grandmother, Kathi Fish...
Flossie Abbott
Feb 19, 2013
Flossie Abbott, daughter of the late James Loyd and Ines DeJournett Byrd, was born in Parma, Missouri on March 30, 1923, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on February 19, 2013, at the age of 89 years. She had lived in Grayridge and Advance before moving to Salcedo in 1974. She had was...
Otis Swinger
Feb 13, 2013
Otis E. Swinger, son of the late Hershal and Gladys Snider Swinger, was born near Dexter, Missouri on April 27, 1926, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on February 13, 2013, at the age of 86 years, 9 months and 17 days. He had lived in Dexter most of his life until...
Retha Sissum
Feb 13, 2013
Retha Marie Sissum, daughter of the late Charles and Abbie Simms Rackley, was born in Russellville, Arkansas on September 25, 1927, and passed away at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Home in Dexter, Missouri on February 13, 2013, at the age of 85 years, 4 months and 19 days. She had lived in Puxico most of her life and attended...
Martha Landers
Feb 11, 2013
Martha Ann Landers, daughter of the late Walter and Thelma Bishop Landers, was born in Dexter, Missouri on April 18, 1937, and passed away at her home in Dexter, Missouri on February 11, 2013, at the age of 75 years. She had lived all of her life in Dexter and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dexter....
Forest Denton
Feb 10, 2013
Forest S. Denton, son of Bernice Evelyn Strange Denton and the late Hershell B. Denton, was born in Flora, Illinois on April 12, 1944, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on February 10, 2013, at the age of 68 years. He had lived in and around Flora, Illinois most of his life until...
Bobby Cowart
Feb 8, 2013
Bobby Lee Cowart, son of the late Raymond and Alberta Mitchell Cowart, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 21,1944, and passed away at the Puxico Nursing & Rehab. Center in Puxico, Missouri on February 8, 2013, at the age of 68 years. He had lived most of his life in Dexter area. He worked in agriculture. On October...
Gladys Page
Feb 7, 2013
Gladys Page Gladys Page, daughter of the late James Louis and Lillian Agusta Beights Hodge, was born in Asherville, Missouri on August 19, 1921, and passed away at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on February 7, 2013, at the age of 91 years, 5 months and 19 days. She was a life long resident of Puxico and...
Lester Strauser
Feb 3, 2013
Lester Strauser, son of the late Charley and Lovie Wilson Strauser, was born in Leora, Missouri on May 20, 1937, and passed away at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Missouri on February 3, 2013, at the age of 75 years. He had lived in St. Louis for many years where he worked as a supervisor for McDonnell Douglas...
Betty Patton
Feb 1, 2013
Betty Gean Patton, daughter of the late William Homer and Pauline Virginia Hastings Davis, was born in Kinder, Missouri on July 31, 1940, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on February 1, 2013, at the age of 72 years. She was a life long resident of the Puxico area and was a...
Russell Sherfield
Jan 29, 2013
Russell C. Sherfield, son of the late Otis and Iva Jo Hunt Sherfield, was born in Dexter, Missouri on October 3,1926, and passed away at his home in Dexter, Missouri on January 29, 2013, at the age of 86 years. Mr. Sherfield had lived in Dexter all his life. He was a veteran of WWII serving in the US Navy....
Eva Cookson
Jan 29, 2013
Eva Lois Cookson, daughter of the late William and Carrie Rister Klaffer, was born in Fisk, Missouri on July 29, 1919, and passed away at the Puxico Nursing & Rehab Center in Puxico, Missouri on January 29, 2013, at the age of 93 years. She was a life long resident of Puxico and was a member of the Life Chapel...
William Dunn
Jan 25, 2013
William "Bill" Dunn, son of the late Harvey and Aureola Baughn Dunn, was born in Elvins, Missouri on November 11,1930, and passed away at the Progress West Health Care in O'Fallon, Missouri on January 25, 2013, at the age of 82 years. Mr. Dunn was a school teacher in the Bernie School District, for a short time before moving on...
Lula Nichols
Jan 25, 2013
Lula Nichols, daughter of Alfred LaunceLot and Harriet Anna McElroy Barker, was born in Shelbyville, Illinois on April 15, 1935 and passed away at the St. Lukes Hospital in Chesterfield, Missouri on January 25, 2013, at the age of 77 years. She had lived most of her life in St. Louis, Missouri. She was of the Protestant Faith, and was...
Barbara Blocker
Jan 20, 2013
Barbara Ann Blocker, daughter of the late John and Mintie Chumley Rodgers, was born in Malden, Missouri on January 23, 1950, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter, Missouri on January 20, 2013, at the age of 62 years. She had lived in Kennett before moving to the Bloomfield area in 1980. On June...
Mack Mullins
Jan 17, 2013
Mack Mullins, son of the late Vince and Madie Stiltner Mullins, was born in Grundy, Virginia, on March 11, 1946, and passed away at his home in Dudley, Missouri on January 17, 2013, at the age of 66 years. He had lived in Chicago and moved to Dudley in 1975. He was a board member of the People's Full Gospel...
