OBITUARIES
Jerry Lee Pennington, Sr.
Dec 12, 2015
Jerry Lee Pennington, Sr., son of the late William Jasper and Lillie Mae Carmack Pennington, was born in Kennett, Missouri, on June 24, 1942, and passed away at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis on December 12, 2015, at the age of 73 years, 5 months and 18 days. He had lived in Puxico, Missouri for many years. He had been...
Peggy Jean Denny
Dec 7, 2015
Peggy Jean Denny of Puxico, daughter of the late Gene and Ina Loyd DeShaw, was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on November 7, 1928, and passed away at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau on December 7, 2015, at the age of 87 years and one month. On April 26, 1946, she was married to David Oliver and he...
Darrell Lee Swinger
Dec 4, 2015
Darrell Swinger, son of the late Otis & Bonnie Curd Swinger, was born in Dexter, Missouri on June 11, 1952, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter, Missouri on December 4, 2015, at the age of 63 years, 5 months and 23 days. Mr. Swinger lived in Dexter all his life. He had worked...
Dorothy P. Carter
Dec 3, 2015
Dorothy P. Carter of West Bloomfield, Michigan, daughter of the late John and Nettie Hester, was born in Bloomfield, Missouri on December 26, 1924, and passed away in Detroit, Michigan on December 3, 2015, at the age of 90 years, 11 months and 7 days. She had lived in Michigan from 1965 to 1983 when she returned to Dexter. She...
Geneva Margaret Baker
Dec 3, 2015
Geneva Margaret Baker of Dexter, daughter of the late William and Pearl Dowdy Ellis, was born near Essex, Missouri on February 15, 1930, and passed away at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri on December 3, 2015, at the age of 85 years, 9 month and 19 days. She lived her life in the Essex and Dexter area....
Mary M. Cox
Dec 2, 2015
Mary M. Cox, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister, was ushered to her heavenly home with the angels and saints, at the St. Francis Medical Center on December 2, 2015, at the age of 83 years, surrounded by her loving family. Mary was born on June 9, 1932, in Hackleburg, Alabama, daughter of the late James Sherman and Mable Bama...
Betty Anne Gilmore
Nov 30, 2015
Betty Anne Gilmore, daughter of the late Paul G. and Beatrice Faulkner Hester, was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 16, 1937, and passed away at the Sikeston Convalescent Center in Sikeston, Missouri on November 30, 2015, at the age of 78 years. She had lived in Bloomfield most of her life. She attended the Garden Ridge General Baptist Church....
James Thomas Tanner
Nov 29, 2015
James Thomas "Star" Tanner of Wappapello, son of the late Thomas Edward and Cora Blanche Ramsey Tanner, was born in Puxico, Missouri on October 18, 1923, and passed away at the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on November 29, 2015, at the age of 92 years, 1 month and 11 days. He had lived in...
Jayne Elynn Brown
Nov 29, 2015
Jayne Elynn Brown, the daughter of Janet McDonald Meadows and the late T. R. Meadows, was born in Dexter, Missouri on October 5, 1956, and passed away at her home in Dudley, Missouri on November 29, 2015, at the age of 59 years, 1 months and 24 days. Mrs. Brown had lived in Dudley Missouri all her life. She had...
Bertie L. Morgan
Nov 27, 2015
Bertie L. Morgan, the daughter of the late Joseph Samuel & Mary LaVena Watson Nash, was born in Bunker, Missouri on December 20, 1926, and passed away at her home in Dudley, Missouri on November 27, 2015 at the age of 88 years, 11 months and 7 days. Mrs. Morgan had lived in House Springs and Imperial, Missouri before moving...
Candis E. Heck
Nov 24, 2015
Candis E. “Candy” Heck, daughter of C. J. and Helen Kinsey McCain, was born in Rockford, Illinois on February 2, 1952, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on November 24, 2015, at the age of 63 years, 9 months and 22 days. She had lived in Indiana & Colorado before moving to Bloomfield...
Donald R. Morgan, Sr.
Nov 23, 2015
Donald R. Morgan, Sr., the son of the late Mike & Bertha Lee Pope Morgan, was born in Fisk, Missouri on November 2, 1930, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on November 23, 2015 at the age of 85 years and 21 days. Mr. Morgan had lived in House Springs and Imperial, Missouri...
Glenda F. Metcalf
Nov 21, 2015
Glenda Metcalf, daughter of the late James Silas & Allie Virginia Latham Churchill, was born in Caglesville, Arkansas on March 18, 1930, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter, Missouri on November 21, 2015, at the age of 85 years, 7 months and 28 days. Mrs. Metcalf had lived in Bloomington, California for many...
Jean Payne
Nov 21, 2015
Jean Payne, daughter of the late Alfred & Juanita Shipley Head, was born in Manilla, Arkansas on December 17, 1940, and passed away at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter, Missouri on November 21, 2015, at the age of 74 years, 11 months and 4 days. Mrs. Payne had lived in Lees Summitt, Missouri and moved to Southeast Missouri in...
Mona G. Evans
Nov 16, 2015
Mona G. Evans, daughter of the late Clarence Alvin and Nellie Creed Green, was born in Acorn Ridge, Missouri on December 25, 1919, and passed away at the Puxico Nursing Center in Puxico, Missouri on November 16, 2015, at the age of 95 years, 10 months and 22 days. Mona was raised in the Acorn Ridge area, had lived in...
Kenneth Dale Russell
Nov 13, 2015
Kenneth Dale Russell was born on December 15, 1952 to the late Lonnon Leo “Pete” and Georgia Irene Maze Russell of Dudley. Mr. Russell was a life-long resident of Dudley except for the years he served in the United States Air Force. For the majority of his service he was stationed at Hurlburt Field in Florida. On December 27, 1973,...
James Lee Duncan
Nov 12, 2015
James Lee Duncan, the son of the late Theodore and Cleola VanBibber Duncan, was born in Dexter, Missouri on February 15, 1933, and passed away at the St. Clair Nursing Center in St. Clair, Missouri on November 12, 2015 at the age of 82 years, 8 months and 28 days. Mr. Duncan had lived in St. Louis, Missouri before moving...
Kathryn M. Lay
Nov 7, 2015
Kathryn Lay, daughter of the late Alexander and Oma Bowman McRoy, was born in Bloomfield, Missouri on September 6, 1921, and passed away at the Bertrand Nursing Center in Bertrand, Missouri on November 7, 2015, at the age of 94 years, 2 months and 1 day. She had lived in the Bloomfield area all of her life. She was a...
Evelyn Simpson
Nov 7, 2015
Evelyn Simpson, daughter of the late Rufus John and Mary Tune Moore, was born in Chaonia, Missouri on December 24, 1915, and passed away at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter, Missouri on November 7, 2015, at the age of 99 years, 10 months and 14 days. Evelyn had been a resident of the Wappapello and Puxico areas...
Shirley A. Ham
Oct 18, 2015
Shirley A. Ham, daughter of the late William Alexander & Willa Jeffrey Proffer Gwin, was born in Bloomfield, Missouri on July 8, 1935, and passed away at Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on October 18, 2015, at the age of 80 years, 3 months and 10 days. Mrs. Ham had lived in Bloomfield all of her life. She was...
