OBITUARIES
Juanita Umfleet
Jan 13, 2013
Juanita Umfleet, daughter of the late Richard and Nora Pullum Gibson, was born in Dexter, Missouri on July 7, 1922, and passed away at her home in Dexter, Missouri on January 13, 2013, at the age of 90 years. She had lived in Bloomfield before moving to Dexter in 1946. She had attended the Second General Baptist Church since, 1946,...
Marjorie Proffer
Jan 10, 2013
Marjorie Manerva Quick Proffer, daughter of the late Luther F. and Millie A Scism Quick, was born on August 31, 1916, in rural Bloomfield, Missouri and passed away at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on January 10, 2013, at the age of 96 years. On October 29, 1943, she was married to Lee T. Proffer in Dexter, Missouri....
Larry Payne
Jan 9, 2013
Larry Allen Payne, son of James Oscar Payne and Barbara Sue Scott Belt, was born in Sikeston, Missouri on September 16, 1968, and passed away in Dexter, Missouri on January 9, 2013, at the age of 44 years. He had lived most of his life in Dexter. He was of Baptist faith. On June 22, 2000, he was married to...
John Surber
Jan 8, 2013
John David Surber John David Surber, son of the late Henry and Thelma Hancock Surber, was born in Mingo, Missouri on March 23, 1935, and passed away at his residence in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on January 8, 2013, at the age of 77 years. He had lived in California, Washington DC, and Missouri. He worked as a newspaper printer for...
Brenda Odle
Jan 5, 2013
Brenda S. Odle, daughter of the late Elvis Alfred and Emma Harvey Brown, was born in rural Stoddard County, Missouri on November 10, 1946, and passed away at her home in Desoto, Texas on January 5, 2013, at the age of 66 years. She was a former resident of the Circle City community, and moved to Texas twenty years ago....
Shirley Froman
Jan 3, 2013
Shirley Ann Froman, daughter of the late Monroe and Lucille Poe Dunning, was born in Advance, Missouri on January 26, 1936, and passed away at the St. Frances Hosptial in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Missouri on January 3, 2013, at the age of 76 years. She had lived in Paragould Arkansas for several years before moving to Advance, Missouri. She was...
Frankie Hunsperger
Jan 2, 2013
Frankie Hunsperger, son of the late Thomas and Pearl Driver Hunsperger, was born in Koshkanong, Missouri on August 21, 1928, and passed away at the Golden Living Center in Dexter, Missouri on January 2, 2013, at the age of 84. He had lived in Dexter for 40 years. He was of Baptist Faith. On August 10, 1954 he was married...
Sylvia Hurst
Dec 31, 2012
Sylvia Lou Maddox Hurst, daughter of the late George Landy and Sallie Jewell Robinson Maddox, was born in Choctaw, Arkansas on November 4, 1935, and passed away at the Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter, Missouri on December 31, 2012, at the age of 77 years. She had lived in the Malden and Campbell areas before moving to Dexter in 1973,...
Arthur Vaughn
Dec 30, 2012
Arthur "Bud" Vaughn, Jr., son of the late Arthur Lee and Ruby Maze Vaughn, was born on August 3, 1930, in Dexter, Missouri and passed away at his home in Bloomfield, Missouri on December 30, 2012, at the age of 82 years. Arthur had lived in Bloomfield most of his life. He was a veteran of the U. S. Army...
Stanley Weinert
Dec 23, 2012
Stanley Lewis Weinert, son of the late Frederick Ransom and Lillian Mae Wenz Weinert, was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 22, 1930, and passed away at the Mark Twain Caring Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on December 23, 2012, at the age of 82 years. He had lived in St. Louis until moving to Poplar Bluff in 1982...
Oscar Pullum
Dec 21, 2012
Oscar Leo Pullum, son of the late Herbert Milton and Serena Jane McCoy Pullum, was born in Parma, Missouri on October 19, 1933, and passed away at his home in Essex, Missouri on December 21, 2012, at the age of 79. He lived in Essex most all his life where he worked as a farmer. On September 25, 1952 he...
Lance Cannon
Dec 17, 2012
Lance Ludell Cannon was born on Dec 24, 1917, in Bassett, Arkansas, son of the late Frank and Maude Bennett Cannon, and passed away Monday, Dec 17, 2012, in the Cypress Point Nursing Home in Dexter at the age of 94. On July 20, 1940 he married Clara Irene McClung, who preceded him in death on April 12, 1994, after...
Joshua Sandusky
Dec 16, 2012
Joshua Allen Sandusky, son of Charlie Sandusky and Mayra Del Rios Dias, was born in Vieques, Puerto Rico on July 31, 1990, and passed away at his home in Dexter, Missouri on December 16, 2012, at the age of 22 years. He had lived in many places while his father was in the military and had lived the past ten...
Matthew Long
Dec 14, 2012
Matthew Gifford Long, 35, of Republic, Mo., died at Barnes Jewish Hospital on Friday, Dec.14, 2012, following a lifelong battle of congenital heart defects. He is our hero and who knows how many lives he will save in the future due to his pioneering efforts with his total artificial heart and the research that was gained. Matthew was a tissue...
Helen Bowling
Dec 6, 2012
Helen Bowling, daughter of the late Otis and Winnie Skelton Weaver, was born on June 23, 1928, in Bloomfield, Missouri and passed away at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Missouri on December 6, 2012, at the age of 84 years. She had lived in Bloomfield, Missouri all of her life. She was a member of the First General...
Jeanette West
Dec 5, 2012
Jeanette West was born October 26, 1928 in rural Stoddard County, the youngest child of the late William Joseph Smith, and Edith Small Smith, and died December 5, 2012 at Potosi Manor Care Center in Potosi where she resided. She married William Lee (Bill) West on December 6, 1951 in Piggott, Arkansas. Mrs. West along with her husband was the...
Stella Simmons
Dec 4, 2012
Stella Louise Simmons, daughter of the late Hershel and Katherine Tanner Akridge, was born in Gideon, Missouri on August 18, 1948, and passed away at her home in Catron on December 4, 2012, at the age of 64 years, 3 months and 16 days. She had lived in St. Louis until moving to Catron 43 years ago. She was a...
Roger Wright
Dec 3, 2012
Roger Kent Wright, son of Norma Jean Jackson Wright and the late John Allen Wright, was born in Parma, Missouri on November 10, 1959, and passed away at the Missouri Southern Health Care in Dexter, Missouri on December 3, 2012, at the age of 53 years and 23 days. He had lived most all his life in the Malden and...
Bonnie Livesay
Dec 1, 2012
Bonnie Sue Livesay, daughter of the late Joseph Peter "JP" and Gertrude Alberta Bradford Cochran, was born on March 14, 1939, in London, Arkansas and passed away at her home in Dexter, Missouri on December 1, 2012, at the age of 73 years. She had lived in Aquilla from 1968 to 2006 when she moved to Dexter, Missouri. She was...
Sharon Lawson
Nov 30, 2012
Sharri Lawson, daughter of the late Roscoe Vincent and Ruby Mae Pruitt Cain, was born in St. Louis, Missouri on June 9, 1949, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on November 30, 2012, at the age of 63 years, 5 months and 21 days. Sharri grew up in Potosi, Missouri and moved to...
