OBITUARIES
Ray Dean Hodge
Dec 29, 2020
Ray Dean Hodge of Puxico, Missouri was born to the late Aaron Hodge and Sylvia Lee Logan Hodge on July 8, 1937 in Puxico, Missouri and passed away on December 29, 2020 in Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Ray had been a resident of Puxico, Missouri all his life. He enjoyed coon hunting, and was a member...
Maxine Roberts
Dec 27, 2020
Maxine Carlene Roberts of St. Charles Missouri, daughter of the late Carl and Opal Needham, was born in Essex Missouri on August 12, 1931, and passed away at The Boulevard Senior Living Center in St. Charles Missouri on December 27, 2020, at the age of 89 years. Maxine has been a resident of St. Charles for the last 28 years....
Edna Allen
Dec 27, 2020
Edna Deloris (Lois) Allen of Puxico Missouri, daughter of the late Levi and Orpha Dunn, was born in Acorn Ridge, Missouri on September 23, 1934, and passed away in her home in Puxico Missouri, at the age of 86 years. Lois has lived in Puxico all of her life. She was a faithful member of Corinth General Baptist Church for...
Gene Binford
Dec 21, 2020
Leonard Eugene "Gene" Binford, son of Samuel Leonard and Stella Davis Binford was born in Morehouse, Missouri on February 22, 1930 and passed away at his home in Puxico, Missouri on Monday, December 21, 2020, at the age of 90 years. Gene lived in Puxico most of his life. He was a lifelong farmer, enjoyed raising cattle, and was fond...
Martha Norris
Dec 21, 2020
Martha Norris of Puxico Missouri, daughter of the late William and Meta Buchanan, was born on January 09, 1930, and passed away at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on December 21, 2020, at the age of 90 years. Martha belonged to the Missouri Retired Teachers Association, and The Puxico Thursday Culture Club. She was a former board...
Carolyn Merrick
Dec 20, 2020
Carolyn Merrick of Sikeston, Missouri, daughter of the late Louie Houston and Juanita Peppers Barber, was born in Charter Oak, Missouri on November 15, 1946 and passed away in Sikeston, Missouri on December 20, 2020 at the age of 74. Carolyn enjoyed cooking for her family and friends. She worked for many years at Aramark Uniform in production. Surviving are...
Kathryn Hess
Dec 19, 2020
Kathryn Hess Kathryn Hess the daughter of Joseph and Ella Colbert was born on April 11, 1933 in Noland Arkansas and passed away in her home on Saturday December 19, 2020 at the age of 87 years. Mrs. Hess has lived in the Dexter area all of her life. She enjoyed reading and spending time with her children and grandchildren....
Elmer Allen
Dec 17, 2020
Elmer Roy Allen Elmer Roy Allen, son of Audrey and Dena Allen was born in Puxico Missouri on April 29, 1933 and passed away at Poplar Bluff Regional Hospital on December 17, 2020, at the age of 87 years. Mr. Allen had lived in Puxico his whole life. He enjoyed antique cars and gardening. He was a member of the...
Carolyn Chaney
Dec 16, 2020
Carolyn Nelle Rhodes Chaney, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother went home to rest Wednesday, December 16, 2020, at the age of 91. The daughter of Dr. John Carlisle and Cora Boyd Rhodes, Carolyn was born on April 5, 1929 in Puxico, Missouri. She celebrated her fifth birthday with her future husband, David Glenn Chaney, and after a high school...
Thomas Edgar Clubb Sr.
Dec 12, 2020
Thomas Clubb Sr. of Puxico, son of Odis and Martha VanMatre Clubb, was born in McGee, Missouri on March 13, 1938, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau on December 12, 2020, at the age of 82 years. He was a heavy equipment operator for Nip Kelley construction company. Thomas was a member of the...
Nancy Diane Crowe
Dec 9, 2020
Nancy Diane Crowe of Bloomfield, daughter of the late Noel Gene and Eileen McRoy Crowe was born on May 1, 1955, in Dexter, Missouri and passed away at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on December 9, 2020, at the age of 65 years. She grew up in Bloomfield and was of the Christian Faith. Surviving her is one brother,...
Ruth Temple
Dec 7, 2020
Ruth Temple of Dexter, the daughter of the late Victor B. and Ola Lilly Malkowski, was born in Centerville, Texas on November 18, 1939, and passed away on December 7, 2020, at Southeast Health of Stoddard County, Missouri, at the age of 81 years due to complications from COVID. Ruth married James Temple, on December 15, 1957 in Hernando, Mississippi...
Willard Rampley
Dec 6, 2020
Willard Rampley of Dexter, son of the late Joeseph and Blanche Rampley, was born in Zadock, Missouri on July 16, 1931 and passed away at Cypress Point Nursing Home in Dexter Missouri on December 06, 2020, at the age of 89 years. On December 24, 1955 he was married to Norma Kern Rampley, in Nashville Tennessee; she precedes him in...
Malachi Kemp
Dec 4, 2020
Malachi Wayne Kemp Malachi Wayne Kemp of Dexter, the son of the Delores, was born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on November 28, 2020, and passed away on December 4, 2020, at Cardinal Glennon Hospital, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of 6 days. Surviving him: his mother Delores Kemp of Dexter, Missouri, grandmother Misty Kemp of Dexter, grandpa Jose...
Theoplis Clark
Nov 28, 2020
Theoplis Clark, son of the late Theodore and Bernice Clark was born in Essex Missouri on February 20, 1928 and passed away at his home in Essex Missouri on November 28, 2020, at the age of 92 years. Mr. Clark had lived around the Essex and Penermon area his entire life. He was a deacon of the Bethel Ame Church...
Gary Don Smith
Nov 24, 2020
Gary Don Smith of Wentzville, MO passed away at SSM St. Joseph Hospital in Lake Saint Louis on November 24, 2020. He was 73 years old. Born August 29, 1947 in Morehouse, MO. to Anna LaVerne Moore Smith and the late Don Willis Smith. Gary grew up in the Morehouse area. He worked at the International Hat Factory in Dexter,...
Katie Davis
Nov 18, 2020
Katie Davis of Sikeston, Missouri, daughter of the late Wilbur and Bertie Knight, was born in Bloomfield, Missouri on June 26, 1935 and passed away in Sikeston, Missouri on November 18, 2020 at the age of 85. Katie enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She also enjoyed working in her garden and mowing the lawn. She worked for...
Scott Jarrell
Nov 8, 2020
Scott Jarrell of Dexter, son of the late Carl Otto and Virginia Sue (Ferguson) Jarrell, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 27, 1958, and passed away at Missouri Delta Hospital in Sikeston, on November 8, 2020, at the age of 62 years. Scott married Peggy McCoy on October 27, 2004 in Dexter, Missouri. He lived in the Dexter...
Janet Rushin
Nov 7, 2020
Janet Rushin of Bloomfield, daughter of the late Howard Baker Burgess and Martha "Vanita" Marquis Burgess, was born in Painton, Missouri on June 21, 1938, and passed away in Bloomfield, Missouri on November 7, 2020, at the age of 82. She was a member of the Lick Creek Missionary Baptist Church. She enjoyed fishing, working in her garden and writing...
Bill Bell
Nov 7, 2020
Bill Bell of Bloomfield, the son of the late Lee Roy and Ruby Aslee Hardin Bell, was born in Camden, Tennessee on May 23, 1942, and passed away on November 7, 2020, at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 78 years. He worked as a mechanic for years and lived most of...
