Stories from Thursday, January 5, 2012

A sewer line that, according to City Administrator Mark Stidham, is estimated to be over 100 years old, developed problems this week, with a leak under Stoddard Street in the downtown shopping district. City Street crews dug over 12 feet Tuesday and Wednesday to reach the source of the problem. ...

Frances Ann Montgomery, daughter of the late John A. Lemons and Dorothy Sifford Lemons, was born on March 12, 1937 in Dexter and died on Jan. 3, 2012 at the Gideon Care Center in Gideon, Mo. at the age of 74. She was a homemaker and a resident of Dexter. She was a member of the Second General Baptist Church in Dexter where she played the organ for a number of years. She loved her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren...

James W. Jarrell, son of the late John William "Bill" and Millie Emiline James Jarrell, was born in Puxico, Mo. on June 22, 1940, and died at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. on Jan. 3, 2012, at the age of 71. He had lived in the Dexter and Puxico areas most of his life. He was of the Methodist faith...

Gilbert M. Faulkner, son of the late Earnest Faulkner and Minnie Cantrel Faulkner, was born on July 31, 1932 in Bloomfield, Mo. and died on Jan. 3, 2012 at his residence in Dexter at the age of 79. Mr. Faulkner retired from the United States Navy at the rank of Chief Petty Officer. He and his brother ran an aviation service. His brother, Norman, would fly planes and Gilbert serviced the planes. He was a resident of Dexter...