Stories from Friday, February 1, 2019

Dexter, Mo. – Back in the 1960s, Dexter residents had a choice. But it was not the choice they wanted to make. The community had no hospital, and that meant traveling to Poplar Bluff or Sikeston for hospital-related healthcare needs. John William Ringer and a small group of other Stoddard County leaders recognized the need for a local hospital and the strengths it would bring to their growing community. ...

Rilla Fulkerson, a former resident of Dexter, was born on December 22, 1928 in Tallapoosa, Missouri and departed this life on January 30, 2019 in Houston, Texas at the age of 90 years. Funeral services are in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter on Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 2:30pm with Tim Chamberlain officiating. Interment was in the Dexter Cemetery...

Janice M. Cox, daughter of the late Milburn Harris and Dessie Morrison Harris was born on February 10, 1937 in Sikeston, Missouri and departed this life on January 28, 2019 at her residence near Dexter, Missouri at the age of 81 years. Funeral services were conducted in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel at 2:00 PM on Thursday, January 31, 2019. Interment was in the Chalk Bluff Cemetery...

A Dexter woman died Friday afternoon in a single vehicle accident on ZZ Highway west of Dexter. According to the highway patrol, a northbound 2006 Ford Escape, driven by 73 year-old Verda Allstun, left the right side of the roadway. The vehicle then struck a bridge and overturned in a ditch.