Stories from Monday, December 30, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is the first of two stories on the additions being added to Southwest and Central Elementary. As the work winds down at the high school, middle school and Charles Bland Stadium, it is still going strong at other locations on the Dexter campus. One of those places is at Central Elementary...

On Thursday, Dec. 19 a truck from Williams Moving Company pulled up in front of the Stoddard County Gospel Mission. This truck did not contain the usual cargo one would expect to find in a moving truck. Instead of furniture, boxes of clothes, etc. this truck contained over 20,000 cans of food collected by the students at Dexter Schools during their annual canned food drive. The truck also contained countless boxes of dry goods the students collected as well...

Stoddard County Warranty Deeds County Recorder Kay Asbell Dec. 16-20, 2019 • Karen Sue Stevens, Tony Stevens, Robert Franklin Tuley, Karen Tuley, Nancy Tuley Mayer, Robert N. Mayer, Charles Everett Tuley and Michey Tuley to Christopher Ryan Crowley and Cynathena Marie Crowley. Section 33 Township 25 Range 10...

An early morning fire on Pine Street in Dexter has claimed the life of one person. According to Dexter Fire Chief Don Seymore the call came in at 6:51 a.m. for a fire in an out building behind a house on the 1400 block of Pine Street. The Dexter Fire Department responded with three trucks and 21 firefighters...

Marian Susan Allen, daughter of the late Fred and Agnes Fortman, was born on July 16, 1954 in Glennonville, Missouri and departed this life on December 21, 2019 at Frontier Health and Rehabilitation in St. Charles, Missouri at the age of 65 years. Visitation was held at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Friday, December 27, 2019...

Doris Mae Gaylord, was born on March 6, 1925 in Essex, Missouri and departed this life on December 25, 2019 in Dexter, Missouri at the age 94. Funeral services were conducted in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel on Saturday, December 28, 2019. Interment followed in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield...

Dona Sue Tanner, daughter of the late James Lewis Gilbert and Jessie Bane Gilbert, was born on March 2, 1942 in Pascola, Missouri and departed this life on December 26, 2019 at her residence in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 77 years. Funeral services were conducted at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Monday, December 30, 2019. Interment followed in the Dexter Cemetery...

Gayle Meritt, daughter of the late Clarence Ott and Pearl Kifer Ott, was born on March 26, 1938 in rural Bernie and departed this life on December 22, 2019 at her residence in Essex at age 81. A Graveside Service was conducted at Chalk Bluff Cemetery on Saturday, December 28, 2019...

Phyllis Marie (Traw) Rushing, 72, died on December 24, 2019 at her home in Sikeston, Missouri. She was born on February 13, 1947, in Essex, Missouri, to the late Eugene and Marie (Holland) Traw. She was a long-time resident of Dexter, Missouri, Pulaski, Tennessee, and Sikeston, Missouri...

Natalie Marie Sennott, daughter of the late Walter Northup Sr. and Marie Morin Northup, was born on January 21, 1958 in Warwick, Rhode Island and departed this life on December 26, 2019 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the age of 61 years...

• John Ruiz, 34, of Poplar Bluff was booked at the Stoddard County Jail on a warrant out of Cape Girardeau for stealing. • Melvin Gene Sandlin, 54, of Broseley was booked at the Stoddard County Jail on a probation violation. • Jeri Ann Dejournett, 32, of Bloomfield, was booked at the Stoddard County Jail on domestic assault – third degree...

• A 19-year-old Dexter resident was injured in a one-vehicle crash at 7:49 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 26, at the intersection of Highway AF and County Road 624 in Stoddard County. According to the report, Brook D. Cunningham was operating a 2004 Chevrolet Malibu northbound when it ran off the left side of the road. Cunningham reportedly overcorrected, which caused her car to run off the right side of the road and strike an embankment...

BLOOMFIELD — A Puxico man was sentenced to prison earlier this month in connection with a 2017 high-speed crash that left a pedestrian dead. Wesley G. Faries, 42, was sentenced to eight years in the Missouri Department of Corrections by Presiding Circuit Judge Robert Mayer according to New Madrid County Prosecuting Attorney Andrew Lawson, who was appointed special prosecutor for the case...