Stories from Monday, January 12, 2015

Separate wrecks leave several injured

Dexter varsity girls basketball coach Chad Allen received his monetary award this week, after having been selected as the 2014 semoball.com Coach of the Year at the organization's annual banquet held at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. A panel of sports writers representing southeast Missouri's five daily newspapers and broadcasters from Southeast Missouri's ESPN Sports Radio Network voted on the award...

Verl Leonard McNece was born on Dec. 8, 1937, in Powe, Mo., to the late Carl and Wilma (Perry) McNece. He died on Jan. 9, 2015, at the Greenville Regional Hospital in Greenville, Ill., at the age of 77. Verl McNece served in the Army and was a member of the Teamsters Local 600 where he drove for Yellow Freight...

Charles E. Locke, age 82, went to meet his Savior at his home in Poplar Bluff, on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, at 3:17 p.m. He was the son of the late Jesse F. Locke and Arminta Locke of Dexter and was born May 5, 1932, in Malden. On Feb. 15, 1953, he was united in marriage to Evelyn Long Locke at Gray Ridge and she survives of their home in Poplar Bluff...

Genevieve Arnold, daughter of the late Love Henderson and Carrie Batchelor Henderson was born on March 31, 1931, in Lincoln, Neb., and died on Jan. 10, 2015, at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter at the age of 83. Mrs. Arnold was a member of the Trinity United Methodist church in Bloomfield. She was a fixture in the Dexter healthcare field working for Dr. Poe, Dr. Jibben and Dr. Kandalaft as their nurse. She was a resident of Dexter...