OBITUARIES
R. H. Morgan
Jul 29, 2014
R. H. Morgan, son of the late Benjamin Leslie and Myrtle Mae White Morgan, was born in Judsonia, Arkansas on January 29, 1927, and passed away at the Miner Nursing Center in Sikeston, Missouri on July 29, 2014, at the age of 87 years and 6 months. He had lived in the Parma area most of his life. He had...
Elmer Fortner
Jul 24, 2014
Elmer Dean Fortner, son of the late Lonnie and Lydia Mae Fortner, was born in Piggott, Arkansas on September 4, 1934, and passed away on July 24, 2014, at his home in Bloomfield, at the age of 79 years, 10 months and 20 days. He had lived in Bloomfield most of his life, he was a self employed carpenter, a...
Raymond Leathers
Jul 22, 2014
Raymond E. Leathers, the son of the late Thomas and Elizabeth Bruce Leathers, was born in Parma, Missouri on January 21, 1924, and passed away at the Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains, Missouri on July 22, 2014, at the age of 90 years, 6 months and 1 day. Mr. Leathers was a veteran, having served with the United States...
John Huckstep
Jul 13, 2014
John "Jack" Huckstep, the son of the late John W. and Reubie Mills Huckstep, was born in Cairo, Illinois on July 19, 1948, and passed away at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri on July 13, 2014, at the age of 65 years, 11 months and 24 days. Mr. Huckstep had been raised in Charleston and had lived...
Lyman Fowler
Jul 4, 2014
Lyman Fowler, son of the late Floyd and Lottie Helderman Fowler, was born in Advance, Missouri on April 6, 1926, and passed away at his home in Puxico on July 4, 2014, at the age of 88 years, 2 months and 28 days. He had lived in the Puxico area most of his life. He had worked for the Missouri...
Michael Brown
Jun 30, 2014
Michael A. "Mike" Brown, the son of the late Wilmur and Viona Wilburn Brown, was born in Sikeston, Missouri on October 11, 1961, and passed away at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on June 30, 2014, at the age of 52 years, 8 months and 19 days. Mr. Brown had lived in the Dexter area most of...
Donald Melton
Jun 30, 2014
Donald E. Melton, son of the late Mattie Christine Melton, was born in St. Louis, Missouri on November 26, 1931, and passed away at his home in Puxico on June 30, 2014, at the age of 82 years, 6 months and 4 days. He had lived in Lee Vining, California, Houston, Texas and St. Louis before moving to Puxico in...
Tula Langford
Jun 29, 2014
Tula Mae Langford, daughter of the late Junice and Nellie Boismenue Linson, was born in Puxico, Missouri on September 20, 1920, and passed away at the Puxico Nursing Center in Puxico, Missouri on June 29, 2014, at the age of 93 years, 9 months and 9 days. She was raised in Puxico, spent from 1941 to 2004 in California before...
Chester Swinney
Jun 21, 2014
Chester Lee Swinney, Jr., son of the late Chester Lee, Sr. and Virginia Bell Swinney, was born in Sikeston, Missouri on May 15, 1946, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter, Missouri on June 21, 2014, at the age of 68 years, 1 months and 6 days. He had lived in Sikeston most of...
Bobby Brown
Jun 20, 2014
Bobby L. Brown, son of the late Robert Marion and Ethel Bell Thomas Brown, was born in Broseley, Missouri on April 24, 1936, and passed away at the Puxico Nursing Center in Puxico on June 20, 2014, at the age of 78 years, 1 month and 27 days. He has lived in Puxico since 1972. He had lived in St....
Gary Richard
Jun 20, 2014
Gary Lee Richard, son of the late John W. and Eva Duren Richard, was born in Asherville, Missouri on June 8, 1949, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff on June 20, 2014, at the age of 65 years and 12 days. He had lived in the Puxico and Poplar Bluff area all his...
Debbie Cantrell
Jun 7, 2014
Debbie K. Cantrell, daughter of Bonnie Brown Musgrave and the late John W. Musgrave, Jr., was born in Flint, Michigan on December 31, 1950, and passed away at her home in Bloomfield, Missouri on June 7, 2014, at the age of 63 years, 5 months and 7 days. She had lived in Dexter & Bloomfield most of her life. She...
Kathy House
Jun 4, 2014
Kathy House, daughter of the late Alvin and Mary Inman Wells, was born in Holland, Michigan on June 15, 1965, and passed away at her home in Dexter, Missouri on June 4, 2014, at the age of 48 years, 11 months and 20 days. She had lived in Michigan before moving to Dexter ten year ago. She was a member...
Beverly Watts
May 28, 2014
Beverly A. Watts, daughter of the late Ray Raymond and Amanda Johnson Richards, was born in Albert Lea, Minnestota on September 12, 1928, and passed away in Puxico, Missouri on May 28, 2014, at the age of 85 years, 8 months and 16 days. She had lived in Bethany, Oklahoma before moving to Puxico in 1996. She was a member...
James Boan
May 23, 2014
James Oliver Boan, son of the late James Rosco and Sarah Jane Parsons Boan, was born September 1, 1921 in Decatur, Missouri and passed away at Sunrise Senior Living in Chesterfield, Missouri on May 23, 2014, at the age of 92 years. Mr. Boan, a former resident of Bloomfield, was owner and publisher of The Vindicator weekly newspaper. He was...
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...
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...
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...
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...
