OBITUARIES
Edison Gibbs
Jul 24, 2011
Edison Dale Gibbs, son of the late Edgar and Odessa Stafford Gibbs, was born in Bell City, Missouri on December 22, 1925, and passed away at his home in Oxly, Missouri on July 24, 2011, at the age of 85 years, 7 months and 2 days. He retired from the US Navy after 30 plus years as a Gunners Mate...
Louis Robinson
Jul 23, 2011
Louis "Mose" Robinson, son of the late Bill and Bertie Kirby Robinson, was born in Idalia, Missouri on March 8, 1920, and passed away at the Golden Living Center in Bloomfield, Missouri on July 23, 2011, at the age of 91 years, 4 months and 15 days. Mr. Robinson had worked in St. Louis, Missouri at the Krey Packing Co....
Mary Stevens
Jul 22, 2011
Mary Francis Stevens, daughter of the late George and Gertrude Tucker Bennett, was born in Bloomfield, Missouri on September 3, 1928, and passed away at the Country Club Care Center in Warrensburg, Missouri on July 22, 2011, at the age of 82 years. Mrs. Stevens was a long time resident of Bloomfield, Missouri until moving to be closer to her...
William Eaker
Jul 21, 2011
William Eaker, son of the late Hermel and Ina Fortner Eaker, was born in Parma, Missouri on January 8, 1930, and passed away at the Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter, Missouri on July 21, 2011, at the age of 81 years, 6 months and 13 days. Mr. Eaker had lived briefly in St. Louis but had lived most of his...
Vivian Hodge
Jul 20, 2011
Vivian G. Hodge, daughter of the late Harry and Vallie Revelle Johns, was born in Advance, Missouri on October 17, 1920, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on July 20, 2011, at the age of 90 years, 9 months and 3 days. She had lived in the Puxico, Missouri area all her...
Gladys Steward
Jul 13, 2011
Gladys Lorene Steward, daughter of the late Fred and Delpha Campbell Cantrell, was born in Thayer, Missouri on April 9, 1927, and passed away at the Southern Missouri Healthcare in Dexter on July 13, 2011, at the age of 84 years. Gladys worked at Senath Nursing Home for twenty-three years as a CNA, retired in 1993 and moved to Bloomfield....
Willis Layton
Jul 12, 2011
Willis A. Layton, son of the late Raymond Everett and Mary Alice Merriman Layton, was born in Morehouse, Missouri on March 1, 1954, and passed away at his home near Essex, Missouri on July 12, 2011, at the age of 57 years, 4 months and 11 days. Mr. Layton had lived in Texas, spent fifteen years in Dexter and lived...
Otelia Chapman
Jul 12, 2011
Florence, SC. Otelia Chapman, 97, died Tuesday, July 12, after a long illness. Otelia (affectionately known to friends and family as �Tillie�) was born June 4, 1914, in Stoddard County, Missouri. She was the daughter of Norman Jasper Coburn and Ethel Siler Coburn. A graduate of Bloomfield (Missouri) High School, she married Evert Leon Chapman on November 22, 1932. She...
Lillie Glasener
Jul 12, 2011
Lillie M. Glasener, daughter of the late Rev. W. H. and Minnie Vietta Moyers Stratman, was born in Bollinger County, Missouri on March 25, 1914, and passed away at the Puxico Nursing Center in Puxico, Missouri on July 12, 2011, at the age of 97 years, 3 months and 17 days. She had lived in the Zalma and Puxico, Missouri...
James Ash
Jul 11, 2011
James Henry Ash, son of the late Charles Henry and Mary Hatton Ash, was born in Shake Ray, Missouri on June 20, 1939, and passed away at the Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter, Missouri on July 11, 2011, at the age of 72 years and 21 days. He had lived in Michigan until moving to Dexter, Missouri 52 years ago....
Charles Jones
Jul 9, 2011
Charles Mitchell Jones, son of the late Archie and Fleeta Waldrup Jones, was born in Sikeston, Missouri on March 12, 1937, and passed away at the Heritage Gardens Nursing Home in Portageville, Missouri on July 9, 2011, at the age of 74 years, 3 months and 27 days. He had lived in Stoddard County all his life and had lived...
Robert Stuart
Jul 9, 2011
Robert L. Stuart, son of the late Walter and Roosevelt McGowen Stuart, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on December 13, 1924, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on July 9, 2011, at the age of 86 years, 6 months and 26 days. He had lived in Dudley, Missouri all his life. He...
Robert Matt
Jul 8, 2011
Robert Lee Matt, Sr., son of the late August Johan "Gus" and Pearl Lillian Leezy Matt, was born in Washington Park, Illinois on September 14, 1939, and passed away at his home near Dudley, Missouri on July 8, 2011, at the age of 71 years, 9 months and 24 days. He had lived in Cahokia, Illinois until moving to the...
Orval Harrison
Jul 2, 2011
Orval E. "Monk" Harrison, son of the late Charles Wesley and Mary Agatha McFarland Harrison was born May 1, 1914, and reared in Sikeston, Missouri, and passed away at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, on July 2 , 2011, at the age of 97 years, 2 months and 1 day. On January 27, 1945, he was married to Lena...
Velda Irvin
Jun 28, 2011
Velda "Rinky" Irvin, daughter of the late Rube and Lora Lewis Duncan, was born in Buffington, Missouri on January 22, 1932, and passed away at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri on June 28, 2011, at the age of 79 years, 5 months and 6 days. She had lived in Morehouse, Missouri most of her life and was...
Leona Hunt
Jun 26, 2011
Leona Hunt, daughter of the late Len and Clara Casey Wilburn, was born in Lavalle, Missouri on July 18, 1922, and passed away at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Missouri on June 26, 2011, at the age of 88 years, 11 months and 8 days. Leona had lived in Lavalle and Parma, Missouri before moving to Dexter in...
Walter Davis
Jun 24, 2011
Walter "Buck" Davis, son of the late Walter William and Wanda Lee louise Davis, was born in Sikeston, Missouri on January 6, 1951, and passed away at his home in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 24, 2011, at the age of 60 years, 5 months and 18 days. Buck had lived in the Essex, Missouri area before moving to Indiana and...
Otis Watts
Jun 21, 2011
Otis Watts, son of the late Obe and Addie Kynion Watts, was born in Bell City, Missouri on August 20, 1923, and passed away at his home near Bloomfield, Missouri on June 21, 2011, at the age of 87 years, 10 months and 1 days. Mr. Watts had lived near Bloomfield, Missouri all his life. He had been a farmer...
Pauline Brown
Jun 17, 2011
Pauline Brown, daughter of the late Audie and Geneva Alexander Davis, was born in Dekalb, Mississippi on October 7, 1921, and passed away at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on June 17, 2011, at the age of 89 years, 8 months and 10 days. On April 15, 1946, she was married to Zeke Willie Brown. He preceded...
Carolyn Polley
Jun 16, 2011
Carolyn S. Polley, daughter of the late Jake Henry and Mary Juanita Baker Surface, was born in Bell City, Missouri on October 16, 1949, and passed away at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on June 16, 2011, at the age of 61 years and 8 months. Mrs. Polley had lived in Bell City, Missouri all of her...
