OBITUARIES
Lovena Dowdy
May 22, 2014
Lovena Dowdy, daughter of the late Andrew Jackson and Edna Marie Dempsy Dowdy, was born in Idalia, Missouri, on April 15, 1940, and passed away at her home in Dexter, Missouri on May 22, 2014, at the age of 74 years, 1 month and 7 days. She had lived most of her life in Dexter, Missouri, and was a member...
Grace Melton
May 21, 2014
Grace Melton, daughter of the late Loyd and Elsie Brooks Hornbuckle, was born in Manila, Arkansas on July 14,1931, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on May 21, 2014, at the age of 82 years, 10 months and 7 days. She had lived in Southeast Missouri most of her life and moved to...
Leoma Cravens
May 17, 2014
Leoma Beatrice (Nixon) Cravens, daughter of the late Ernest VanMeter and Bertha Etta (Moore) Nixon, was born in Kennett, Missouri on January 31, 1919, and passed away at the Golden Living Center in Malden, Missouri on May 17, 2014, at the age of 95 years, 3 months and 16 days. She had lived in the Parma area most of her...
Verneal Durbin
May 17, 2014
Verneal Durbin, daughter of the late Jess and Alie Eagan Horn, was born in Strawberry, Arkansas on November 4, 1934, and passed away at her home in Bloomfield, Missouri on May 17, 2014, at the age of 79 years, 6 months and 12 days. She had lived in the Essex and Bloomfield areas most of her life. She had retired...
Ola Sifford
May 14, 2014
Ola Sifford, daughter of the late James and Lydia Mason Gidcumb, was born near Bloomfield, Missouri on September 8, 1910, and passed away at her home in Bernie, Missouri on May 14, 2014, at the age of 103 years, 8 months and 6 days. She had lived in Bernie, Missouri for the last 60 years. She was of the Baptist...
Irvin Williams
May 13, 2014
Irvin LaVern Williams, son of the late Irvin and Irene Abernathy Williams, was born in Harold, Arkansas on November 5, 1924, and passed away at his home in Sikeston, Missouri on May 13, 2014, at the age of 89 years, 6 months and 8 days. He was a lifelong resident of Southeast Missouri, lived in the Malden area for many...
Emma Holland
May 10, 2014
Emma Evelene Holland, daughter of the late William and Pearl Elizabeth Pruitt Hartline, was born near Dexter, Missouri on July 15, 1939, and passed away at her home in Sullivan, Missouri on May 10, 2014, at the age of 74 years, 9 months and 24 days. On June 11, 1955, she was married to A. Jean Holland near Dexter, Missouri....
Kassey Jones
May 10, 2014
Kassey Lee Jones Kassey Lee Jones, son of Danny Jones and Alana Wheeler Jennings, was born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on Febuary 12, 1995, and passed away in Searcey, Arkansas on May 10, 2014, at the age of 19 years, 2 months and 27 days. He had lived in the Puxico area all of life until moving to Searcey, Arkansas...
Raymond Webber
May 6, 2014
Raymond Louis "Junior" Webber, Jr., son of the late Raymond Louis, Sr. and Emma Elizabeth Boyer Webber, was born in Dexter, Missouri on July 3, 1928, and passed away on May 6, 2014, at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, at the age of 85 years, 10 months and 3 days. He had lived in Dexter most of his...
Kirk Stevens
May 5, 2014
Kirk Ryan Stevens, son of Steve Stevens and LaDonna Devenport Glenn, was born in Cape Giardeau, Missouri on December 6, 1987, and passed away at his home in Williamsville, Missouri on May 5, 2014, at the age of 26 years. Kirk had lived the Jackson area until moving to Poplar Bluff 1 ½ years ago, he moved to Williamsville six...
Anice Smith
May 1, 2014
Anice Smith, daughter of the late Lambertis and Jennie VanEtten Bruggeman, was born in South Holland, Illinois, on December 2, 1927, and passed away at her home in Essex, Missouri on May 1, 2014, at the age of 86 years, 4 months, and 29 days. She had lived in California and Russellville, Arkansas before moving to Essex two years ago....
David May
Apr 30, 2014
David May, son of Richard and Deloris Craig May, was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on January 4, 1966, and passed away at his home in Bloomfield, Missouri on April 30, 2014, at the age of 48 years. Mr. May was a resident of Bloomfield and was a General Baptist. He had worked in the warehouse at the Proctor &...
Betty Fowler
Apr 29, 2014
Betty Jo Fowler, daughter of the late Freddie Leroy and Betty Sue Houltzhouser Kenshalo , was born in Essex, Missouri on December 19, 1951, and passed away at her home in Dexter, Missouri on April 29, 2014, at the age of 62 years, 4 months and 10 days. She had lived in southeast Missouri her entire life, and Dexter for...
James Biggs
Apr 27, 2014
James Henry Biggs, son of the late James Henry and Martha Jane Schultz Biggs, was born in Senath, Missouri on June 20, 1931, and passed away at the Golden Living Center in Malden, Missouri on April 27, 2014, at the age of 82 years, 10 months and 7 days. He was a lifelong resident of Southeast Missouri and had lived...
Ivy Keeling
Apr 26, 2014
Ivy John "I.J." Keeling, son of the late Henry Ray and Easter John Keeling, was born in Centerville, Arkansas on August 17, 1931, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on April 26, 2014, at the age of 82 years, 8 months and 9 days. He had lived in Arkansas but had spent most...
Dale Ellis
Apr 17, 2014
Dale Ellis, son of the late William and Pearl Dowdy Ellis, was born in Parma, Missouri on June 11, 1937, and passed away on April 17, 2014, Southeast Health Care of Stoddard County in Dexter, at the age of 76 years10 months and 6 days. He had lived in Dexter the last 53 years, he worked for the City Of...
Eula Baca
Apr 14, 2014
Eula Faye Baca, daughter of the late Samuel Jasper and Esta Ruth Jones Harmon, was born in Manilla, Arkansas on October 27, 1933, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on April 14, 2014, at the age of 80 years. Mrs. Baca had lived in Lubbock, Texas, where she was a dietary manager for...
Sally Fauller
Apr 12, 2014
Sally Nell Fauller, daughter of the late William and Katie Dowdy McGuire, was born in Wyatt, Missouri on September 24, 1910, and passed away at the Royal Manor Nursing Facility in Nicholasville, Kentucky on April 12, 2014, at the age of 103 years. She had lived in the Sikeston area for many years before moving to Nicholasville, Kentucky in 1996....
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...
