OBITUARIES
Mildred "Molly" Phegley
Jun 16, 2016
Mildred E. "Molly" Phegley, daughter of the late Andrew Vernon and Maud Wolfe Mills, was born in Savannah, Tennessee on May 4, 1923, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter, Missouri on June 16, 2016, at the age of 93 years, 1 month and 12 days. Mrs. Phegley moved to Dexter in 1973. She...
Lee Vaughn
Jun 13, 2016
Lee Vaughn of Dexter, Missouri, son of the late Arthur Lee & Ruby Edna Maze, was born near Dexter on December 18, 1936, and passed away at the Golden Living Center in Bloomfield Missouri, on June 13, 2016, at the age of 79 years, 5 months, and 26 days. Lee had lived in Dexter for many years. He has served...
Opal Womack Bondurant
Jun 12, 2016
Opal Womack Bondurant, 96 of Overland Park, Kansas, passed away Sunday evening. She was born in Hohenlinden, Mississippi on October 26, 1919 to Byron Minter Womack and Hattie Wofford Womack. She graduated High School in Woodland, Mississippi in 1937. She worked for David M. Barton Farms for 65 years and was a member of the Parma United Methodist Church for...
Patricia A. Kidd Johnson
Jun 11, 2016
Patricia Kidd-Johnson of Essex, daughter of Rocellia Goin Duncan and the late Roscoe Duncan, was born in Sikeston, Missouri on March 10, 1950, and passed away at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri on June 11, 2016, at the age of 66 years, 3 months and 1 day. Patty had lived in Dexter most of her life and...
Tom R Sweeney
Jun 10, 2016
Tom Sweeney, son of Mary Beatrice Nunn Sweeney and the late Nelson Sweeney, was born in Lexington, Kentucky on April 1, 1951, and passed away at his home in Dexter, Missouri on June 10, 2016, at the age of 65 years, 2 months and 9 days. Mr. Sweeney had lived most of his life in Dexter. He had worked as...
Lester Caldwell
Jun 8, 2016
Lester Caldwell of Wappapello, son of the late Grover Alvin and Sylvia Madeline Hyten Caldwell, was born in Puxico, Missouri on June 18, 1944, and passed away at his home in Wappapello, June 8, 2016, at the age of 71 years, 11 months and 22 days. Mr. Caldwell had lived in St. Charles & O'Fallon, Missouri until moving to Wappapello...
Charles Earl Houart, Jr.
Jun 7, 2016
Charles Earl "J. R." Houart, Jr. of Dexter, son of the late Charles Earl, Sr. and Elsie Bond Houart, was born in Randles, Missouri on June 18, 1935, and passed away at the Southeast Healthcare Center of Stoddard County in Dexter, Missouri on June 7, 2016, at the age of 80 years, 11 months and 20 days. Mr. Houart had...
Norma Isaac
Jun 1, 2016
Norma Isaac, daughter of the late Horace and Dova Cato Crites, was born in Greenbrier, Missouri on February 13, 1933, and passed away at her home near Puxico, Missouri on June 1, 2016, at the age of 83 years, 3 months and 19 days. Mrs. Isaac had lived in the Puxico area all of her life. She was a member...
Nadine J. Cartwright
May 31, 2016
Nadine J. Cartwright of Bloomfield, daughter of the late Alva and Zelva Blanche Hood Strauser, was born near Bloomfield, Missouri on April 20, 1933, and passed away at the Golden Living Center in Bloomfield, Missouri on May 31, 2016, at the age of 83 years, 1 month and 11 days. Mrs. Cartwright had lived in the Bloomfield area all of...
Pat Watkins
May 25, 2016
Pat Watkins, daughter of the late Perry Delmar and Bessie Lee Hendrick Daniel, was born in Dexter, Missouri on January 14,1931, and passed away at her home in Dexter, Missouri on May 25, 2016 at the age of 85 years 4 months and 12 days. Pat lived all her life in Dexter. She was a member of the First Christian...
Glenn M. Ellis
May 11, 2016
Glenn Miller Ellis of Dexter, son of the late Calva and Dorothy Terrien Ellis, was born in Mexico, Missouri on June 16, 1924, and passed away at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Missouri on May 11, 2016, at the age of 91 years, 10 months and 25 days. Mr. Ellis had lived in Arizona and Moline, Illinois before...
Brad Cornelious Baker
May 10, 2016
Brad Cornelious Baker, son of La'Shonda Baker and Douglas J. Turner, was born in Sikeston, Missouri on February 14, 1995, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on May 10, 2016, at the age of 21 years, 2 months and 26 days. Mr. Baker had lived in Sikeston all his life. He had worked...
James Charles Eakes
May 8, 2016
James Charles Eakes of Bloomfield, son of the late Clyde Faye and Oddie Louiza Patterson Eakes, was born in Atkins, Arkansas on May 3, 1934, and passed away at the Golden Living Center in Bloomfield, Missouri on May 8, 2016, at the age of 82 years and 5 days. James had lived in Qulin, Missouri until 1974 when he moved...
Lillian W. Orton
May 7, 2016
Lillian W. Orton, daughter of the late Winford Dudley and Maude Ann Menley Christian, was born in Essex, Missouri on May 13, 1935, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on May 7, 2016, at the age of 80 years, 11 months and 24 days. Lillian had lived in Dexter most of her...
Lendel Strauser
May 5, 2016
Lendel Strauser of Bloomfield, son of the late Charles & Lovie Wilson Strauser, was born in Swinton, Missouri on November 7, 1942, and passed away at his home near Bloomfield on May 5, 2016, at the age of 73 years. He lived in Bloomfield for many years and worked as a Farmer until reitiring five years ago. On July 1,...
Charles T. Houchins
May 5, 2016
Charles T. "Buddy" Houchins of Cape Girardeau, son of the late Charles W. & Tennie Louisa Tate Houchins, was born in Portageville, Missouri on March 14, 1945, and passed away at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on May 5, 2016, at the age of 71 years 1 month and 21 days. Buddy had lived in the Sikeston area...
Rev. Wiley McGhee
May 3, 2016
Rev. Wiley McGhee, son of the late James Monroe and Lillie Frances Julian McGhee, was born in Bloomfield, Missouri on January 13, 1913, and passed away at the Puxico Nursing and Rehab Center in Puxico, Missouri on May 3, 2016, at the age of 103 years, 3 months and 20 days. Mr. McGhee was a retired minister and had pastored...
Harry G. Vaughn
May 2, 2016
Harry Vaughn of Aldrich, Missouri, son of the late Herman H. and Ora DeJournett Hunsaker, was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on February 26, 1945, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on May 2, 2016, at the age of 71 years, 2 months, and 6 days. Harry had been raised in the Essex and...
Thelma Lee Husted
Apr 29, 2016
Thelma Lee Husted, daughter of the late George Harrison and Bessie Myrtle Wakefield White, was born in Senath, Missouri on March 31, 1922, and passed away at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri on April 29, 2016, at the age of 94 years and 29 days. Thelma had lived most of her life in Parma, Missouri. She was...
Denzil G. Gregory
Apr 16, 2016
Denzil Gregory, son of the late Ulesses Sterl and Ada Evelyn Pyle Gregory, was born on October 6, 1929, in Bernie, Missouri and passed away at the Baisch Nursing Center in DeSoto, Missouri on April 16, 2016, at the age of 86 years, 6 months and 10 days. He had been a resident of Poplar Bluff, Missouri before moving to...
