Stories from Tuesday, July 30, 2019

The T.S. Hill Middle School addition is making progress, and school officials say it should be available for use by the time school starts Aug. 28. The renovation of the middle school, as well as improvements to the high school, both elementary schools and the football stadium were made possible when voters approved a $15 million bond issue in April...

Martha Amanda Tucker, daughter of the late Otto Coffey and Edna Ruth Zile Coffey, was born on February 14, 1924 in Grayridge, Missouri and departed this life on July 21, 2019 at her residence in Grayridge at the age of 95 years. Funeral services were conducted at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Thursday, July 25, 2019. Interment followed in the Dexter Cemetery...

The man who financed the first building of the Stars and Stripes Museum/Library in Bloomfield, Ted Adameck, passed away May 7, 2019 at his home in Mesquite, Nevada, following a brief illness; he was 94 years old. He was one of five children who was raised in Santa Barbara, California, a city he dearly loved and often said it was one of the most beautiful cities in the world.  When Ted was 18 he was drafted into the U.S. ...

Albert “Jean” Holland, age 83 of Sullivan, Missouri passed away Saturday, July 27, 2019 at Life Care Center surrounded by his loving family. Albert “Jean” Holland was born on February 7, 1936 in Perryville to John B. and Myrtle Audell (Murray) Holland. ...

Apprill, Shirley Ann (nee Garner) age 82, fortified with the Sacraments of Holy Mother Church, died on Monday, July 22, 2019. Shirley was born on July 11, 1937 in Parma and grew up in Dexter. She is preceded in death by her parents Myrtle and Lester Garner, her husband of 46 years Stanley Glenn Apprill, her sister Fay and her husband Arnold Toner, sister-in-law Ruth Garner and Janet (Gene) Kohler. ...

M. Frances Williams Moore, daughter of the late Sherman C. Williams and Clennie Alma Scoggins Williams, was born on December 1, 1935 in Morrilton, Arkansas and departed this life on Monday, July 29, 2019 at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 83 years...

Patsy Ruth Cook was born on June 7, 1931 in Sikeston, Missouri and departed this life on July 23, 2019 in Sikeston at the age of 88 years. Funeral services were conducted at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Interment followed in the Hagy Cemetery...

Daniel Lee Petty was born on August 15, 1959 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and departed this life on Saturday, July 27, 2019 near Cave City, Arkansas at the age of 59 years. Friends may call at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Friday, August 2, 2019 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. A private, family only, memorial service is being planned for a later date on the family farm...

BLOOMFIELD – A portion of Southeast Missouri’s mobile hospital will be under the watchful eyes of the Stoddard County Ambulance District. The SCAD and the SEMO Region “E” Search and Rescue Team will take possession of the Regional Homeland Security Oversight Committee’s (RSHOC) mobile hospital, Stoddard County EMA Director Kent Polsgrove said at Monday’s county commission meeting...

Stoddard County Warranty Deeds County Recorder Kay Asbell 07/4/16 to 07/8/16 • Brandon Roper and Chelsea Roper to Logan Cowart and Meghan Cowart. Sherwood Forest Subdivision Lot 18. • Daniel Melton Robinson, Tammy I. Robinson, Christina Elizabeth Copsey, Reed Copsey and Robie Lynn Robinson to Thomas E. Tucker and Lisa Tucker. Section 34 Township 25 Range 10...