Stories from Thursday, May 8, 2014

Note: A photo gallery of the Dexter-Cape Central game is available at this link: View Photos Here DEXTER, Mo. - Dexter high school baseball coach Brian Becker didn't pass up an opportunity to talk hitting with senior slugger Cody Neldon before he stepped into the batter's box with one out in the bottom of the sixth inning of a tie game against Cape Central Wednesday afternoon...

BERNIE, Mo. - The Kennett Indians entered Thursday afternoon's state quarterfinal softball contest determined to wait on their pitch after struggling to score in the early innings of their 10-0 state sectional victory against North Pemiscot Monday. "Last game we jumped for the ball and hit on pitcher's counts," Kennett No. ...

Editor's Note: A complete story on this game will be available later online and in the next print edition of Dexter Daily Statesman Friday morning DEXTER, Mo. - The Dexter high school baseball team scored eight runs in the final two innings it batted to beat Cape Central 8-5 Wednesday afternoon...

Raymond Louis "Junior" Webber, Jr., son of the late Raymond Louis, Sr. and Emma Elizabeth Boyer Webber, was born in Dexter, Mo., on July 3, 1928, and died on May 6, 2014, at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, at the age of 85. He had lived in Dexter most of his life with the exception of nine years spent in Albuquerque, N. ...

Gene Fields, son of the late Rufus Fields and Pauline Williams Fields was born on Sept. 7, 1935, in Portageville, Mo., and died on May 7, 2014, at SoutheastHEALTH of Cape Girardeau, Mo., at the age of 78. Mr. Fields was a former employee of Bud Shell Ford in Dexter for 10 years and also a former employee of Richland High School for 17 years. He was a member of the New Bethel Church and a resident of Dexter...

Mildred Louise (Hopkins) Hood, a long-time resident of San Antonio, Texas died May 3, 2014. She was born in Bloomfield, Mo., Feb. 15, 1929, the daughter of Lewis Boyd Hopkins and Lora Scism Hopkins. She was raised near Bloomfield and after graduating from Bloomfield High School, she worked in a local law firm. ...

Kirk Ryan Stevens of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was born on Dec. 6, 1987, and died on May 5, 2014. Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield, Mo., is in charge of all arrangements.