OBITUARIES
Retha Sissum
Feb 13, 2013
Retha Marie Sissum, daughter of the late Charles and Abbie Simms Rackley, was born in Russellville, Arkansas on September 25, 1927, and passed away at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Home in Dexter, Missouri on February 13, 2013, at the age of 85 years, 4 months and 19 days. She had lived in Puxico most of her life and attended...
Martha Landers
Feb 11, 2013
Martha Ann Landers, daughter of the late Walter and Thelma Bishop Landers, was born in Dexter, Missouri on April 18, 1937, and passed away at her home in Dexter, Missouri on February 11, 2013, at the age of 75 years. She had lived all of her life in Dexter and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dexter....
Forest Denton
Feb 10, 2013
Forest S. Denton, son of Bernice Evelyn Strange Denton and the late Hershell B. Denton, was born in Flora, Illinois on April 12, 1944, and passed away at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on February 10, 2013, at the age of 68 years. He had lived in and around Flora, Illinois most of his life until...
Bobby Cowart
Feb 8, 2013
Bobby Lee Cowart, son of the late Raymond and Alberta Mitchell Cowart, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 21,1944, and passed away at the Puxico Nursing & Rehab. Center in Puxico, Missouri on February 8, 2013, at the age of 68 years. He had lived most of his life in Dexter area. He worked in agriculture. On October...
Gladys Page
Feb 7, 2013
Gladys Page Gladys Page, daughter of the late James Louis and Lillian Agusta Beights Hodge, was born in Asherville, Missouri on August 19, 1921, and passed away at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on February 7, 2013, at the age of 91 years, 5 months and 19 days. She was a life long resident of Puxico and...
Lester Strauser
Feb 3, 2013
Lester Strauser, son of the late Charley and Lovie Wilson Strauser, was born in Leora, Missouri on May 20, 1937, and passed away at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Missouri on February 3, 2013, at the age of 75 years. He had lived in St. Louis for many years where he worked as a supervisor for McDonnell Douglas...
Betty Patton
Feb 1, 2013
Betty Gean Patton, daughter of the late William Homer and Pauline Virginia Hastings Davis, was born in Kinder, Missouri on July 31, 1940, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on February 1, 2013, at the age of 72 years. She was a life long resident of the Puxico area and was a...
Russell Sherfield
Jan 29, 2013
Russell C. Sherfield, son of the late Otis and Iva Jo Hunt Sherfield, was born in Dexter, Missouri on October 3,1926, and passed away at his home in Dexter, Missouri on January 29, 2013, at the age of 86 years. Mr. Sherfield had lived in Dexter all his life. He was a veteran of WWII serving in the US Navy....
Eva Cookson
Jan 29, 2013
Eva Lois Cookson, daughter of the late William and Carrie Rister Klaffer, was born in Fisk, Missouri on July 29, 1919, and passed away at the Puxico Nursing & Rehab Center in Puxico, Missouri on January 29, 2013, at the age of 93 years. She was a life long resident of Puxico and was a member of the Life Chapel...
William Dunn
Jan 25, 2013
William "Bill" Dunn, son of the late Harvey and Aureola Baughn Dunn, was born in Elvins, Missouri on November 11,1930, and passed away at the Progress West Health Care in O'Fallon, Missouri on January 25, 2013, at the age of 82 years. Mr. Dunn was a school teacher in the Bernie School District, for a short time before moving on...
Lula Nichols
Jan 25, 2013
Lula Nichols, daughter of Alfred LaunceLot and Harriet Anna McElroy Barker, was born in Shelbyville, Illinois on April 15, 1935 and passed away at the St. Lukes Hospital in Chesterfield, Missouri on January 25, 2013, at the age of 77 years. She had lived most of her life in St. Louis, Missouri. She was of the Protestant Faith, and was...
Barbara Blocker
Jan 20, 2013
Barbara Ann Blocker, daughter of the late John and Mintie Chumley Rodgers, was born in Malden, Missouri on January 23, 1950, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter, Missouri on January 20, 2013, at the age of 62 years. She had lived in Kennett before moving to the Bloomfield area in 1980. On June...
Mack Mullins
Jan 17, 2013
Mack Mullins, son of the late Vince and Madie Stiltner Mullins, was born in Grundy, Virginia, on March 11, 1946, and passed away at his home in Dudley, Missouri on January 17, 2013, at the age of 66 years. He had lived in Chicago and moved to Dudley in 1975. He was a board member of the People's Full Gospel...
Samuel McClellan
Jan 16, 2013
Rev. Samuel H. McClellan, son of the late Samuel Nelson and Bertie Stricker McClellan, was born in Stanberry, Missouri on April 9, 1924, and passed away at the Puxico Nursing and Rehab Center in Puxico, Missouri, Missouri on January 16, 2013, at the age of 88 years. He had last pastored in Morley and Naylor, Missouri for 20 years and...
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,...
Michael Harlan
Jan 13, 2013
Michael T. Harlan, son of Michael M. and Debra A. Dougherty Harlan, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 31, 1985, and passed away in Hawaii on January 13, 2013, at the age of 27 years. He had lived in Gray Ridge all his life. He graduated from Richland High School and Southeast Missouri State University. He was an...
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....
