Stories from Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Alberta Earline Lack, daughter of the late Chester McFarland and Dovie Clubb McFarland, was born on March 11, 1929 in Flint, Michigan and departed this life on September 9, 2019 at her residence in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 90 years. Mrs. Lack was a former bank teller for First Midwest Bank in Dexter. She was a member of Sweet Prospect General Baptist Church in Dexter and a member of the Dexter Hospital Auxiliary...

Joe Killion, of the Missouri Department of Transportation, presented a new county road inventory to the Stoddard County Commission at Monday’s meeting. The commissioners voted 3-0 to approve the inventory, which included printed and digital maps of the county’s roads...

The Dexter Board of Aldermen had a light agenda for its September meeting. City Auditor Eddie Cato informed the board that the city operated at a deficit during July; however this is not unusual for the month of July. This is caused primarily by grants and capital disbursements. Expenses included $140,000 for a street sweeper, $5,000 for new tasers for the police department and over $40,000 in donations...

The 92nd annual Stoddard County Fair will kick off Tuesday, September 17 with the Stoddard County Fair Parade in Downtown Dexter starting at 5:30 p.m and run through Saturday, September 21. Activity at the fairgrounds begins immediately after the parade and will not stop for the next five nights...

• Brandon Duane Chamberlain, 35, of Dexter was booked at the Stoddard County Jail on a Jasper County, Ind., warrant for non-support. • Harold Christopher Todd, 30, of Brownwood was booked at the Stoddard County Jail on a warrant for probation/parole violation...

• Two Perryville residents were injured in a two-vehicle crash at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, on Highway 25 at County Road 260 in Stoddard County. According to the report, Cody D. Skinner, 28, of Dexter was operating a 2013 Chevrolet Sonic southbound when it struck the rear of a 2011 Ford Focus being driven by Kristina A. Bayne, 27, of Perryville...

• Shanea L. Brown, 33, of Ellsinore was arrested on a warrant service at 4:32 a.m. on Tuesday. She was booked at the Dexter City Jail. • Eric N. Lambert, 41, of Dexter was arrested on a warrant service at 7:03 a.m. on Tuesday. He was booked at the Dexter City Jail and transferred to Butler County Jail...

Henry Junior Cagle of Bloomfield, son of the late Henry Albert and Evelyn Jewell Walker Cagle, was born in Leora, Missouri on March 13, 1942, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter, on September 4, 2019, at the age of 77 years, 5 months and 21 days...

Joel Chatten Capps II, son of Joel C. Capps Sr. and Janet Robinson Capps, was born on December 31, 1963 in Carbondale, Illinois and departed this life on September 6, 2019 at his residence in Dudley, Missouri at the age of 55 years. Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter is in charge of all arrangements...

Daryl Lee Ramsey of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Parma, passed away in Cape Girardeau on September 3, 2019, at the age of 61 years. The family plans a private burial but asked that friends join them in a moment of silence on Saturday, September 7 at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers or donations, the family asks that a random act of kindness be performed in Daryl’s memory. A tree will be planted in his name at the Arbors of Auburn Creek where Daryl lived for the past year...

Larry Vernon Phillips passed away on September 3, 2019 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Visitation was conducted on Saturday, September 7, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. A memorial service was then conducted at 11 a.m. in Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel. Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie in charge of all arrangements...

Stoddard County Warranty Deeds County Recorder Kay Asbell 08/26/19 to 08/30/19 • Hubert Neeley and Teresa Neeley to Ricky L. House. Nelson’s Addition Dexter. • Paul Daniel Brewer and Deanna Brewer to Dandee Hardware. City of Advance Block 7 Lot 1. • Larry Lynn Barnett to Robert D. Barrett, Brenda Cox and Donna Smith. Dexter’s East Addition Dexter Block 6 Lot 7...

Last spring, shortly before the school year ended, Richland R-1 School District learned that it had won the Makerspace contest sponsored by the Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA). “The competition was an effort by MSTA to promote Makerspace in schools throughout the state,” explains Lisa Taylor, Makerspace facilitator for the Richland district. “Districts had to produce a video illustrating how they were utilizing Makerspace in their schools.”...