Stories from Monday, August 17, 2015

The Dexter Bearcats varsity football program enters the 2015 season looking to build on a strong summer.

Don Mills of McKinney, Texas died on Aug. 12, 2015 at the age of 78. He was born Sept. 4, 1936, to Harold William Mills and Lois (White) Mills in Bernie, Mo. Don married Loretta Joyce Walker on Oct. 17, 1959 in Campbell, Mo. at the Bethany Baptist Church...

Jerry Carver, son of the late William Franklin and Lillian Versie Walker Carver was born in Kewanee on Feb. 27, 1947, and died at the SoutheastHEALTH Center of Stoddard County in Dexter, on Aug. 13, 2015, at the age of 68. Jerry had been a resident of Puxico and Dexter most of his life. He was a graduate of Zalma High School and he owned and operated Jerry's Print Shop in Dexter for many years. He enjoyed leather working, hunting, fishing, gardening, farming and playing cards...

Norman Harold Cate, Sr., son of the late Robert Wesley and Elsie Anetha Johnson Cate, was born in Aquilla, on Sept. 7, 1931, and died at the Martinsburg VA Medical Center in Martinsburg, W. Va., on Aug. 13, 2015, at the age of 83. Mr. Cate was a long-time resident of Bloomfield. ...

Bernice Daniels, daughter of the late Marion C. and Mae Viola Lovett Henson, was born in Braggadocio on Dec. 21, 1921, and died at the Golden Living Center in Malden on Aug. 16, 2015, at the age of 93. Arrangements are under the directions of Watkins and Sons Funeral Service of Parma...

Patsy Moore, daughter of the late Lester Stoker and Mildred Hudgens Stoker was born on Jan. 4, 1934, in Bloomfield, Mo. and died on Aug. 14, 2015, at the Southeast HEALTH Center of Stoddard County at the age of 81. Mrs. Moore was a resident of Dexter. She had worked for Elder's Manufacturing and Purolator...