Stories from Thursday, March 26, 2015

POPLAR BLUFF -- Melanie McKuin continued the Dexter Lady Bearcats' recent run of Bob Gray Award winners Wednesday night while Blake Reynolds became the first Jackson player since 1987 to win the John Gibbs Award. Both were among the honorees at the 57th annual Poplar Bluff Letter Club Basketball Banquet at the Black River Coliseum, which started off the festivities with a keynote address by University of Missouri men's basketball coach Kim Anderson...

DEXTER, Mo. - The highly anticipated regular-season district battle between the Dexter Bearcats and Kennett Indians turned into a run-fest Wednesday afternoon. The Bearcats and Indians combined to calculated 28 runs and 20 hits in a see-saw thriller that featured five lead changes...

The Bernie baseball team hit three home runs as it blistered Woodland 10-0 in five innings Wednesday afternoon. Devin Trammel and Matt Vernon each had three of the the Mules' 12 hits. Brock Beacham, Austin Beck and Owen Foster hit home runs for Bernie...

Raymond "Sug" Walker, son of the late Jessie Raymond Walker and Mayme Reynolds Walker, was born on May 10, 1945, in Bernie and died on March 25, 2015, at St. Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo., at the age of 69. Mr. Walker worked in construction doing carpentry and concrete work. He was a veteran of the United States Army serving in Vietnam...

Donnie Wayne Hill, son of the late William and Harriet McKeller Hill, was born in Parma, on Dec. 10, 1957, and died at his home in St. Louis on March 13, 2015, at the age of 57. He had been raised in the Parma and Essex area and moved to St. Louis 25 years ago. He graduated from the Richland Public Schools and had worked at the Renaissance Hotel in St. Louis...

Jimmy Dale Adams, son of the late Robert Lee Adams and Ora Young Adams Townsend, was born on Jan. 18, 1942, in La Forge, Mo., and died on March 25, 2015, at his residence in Bernie at the age of 73. Mr. Adams was a member of the Calvary Apostolic Church in Kennett. He was retired from the ministry and a member of the Worldwide Pentecostal Fellowship. He was a veteran of the United States Army...