Stories from Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Stoddard County Warranty Deeds County Recorder Kay Asbell Feb. 3-7, 2020 • Roy E. Ward and Rachel L. Ward to Castor River. Sections 2-3 Township 26 R 11. • Billie G. Hiett and April McFerron to Billie G. Hiett, Paul McFerron Trust and April McFerron Trust. Jenkins Addition Advance Block 4 Lot 6...

Angela Robinson, daughter of Terry Robinson of Wappapello and Donna Kester Robinson of Dexter, was born on April 18, 1977 in Dexter and departed this life on February 13, 2020 at her residence in Poplar Bluff, Missouri at the age of 42 years. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter...

Travis Allen Carter, son of J.R. Carter and Rhonda Allen Carter, was born on May 30, 1986 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and departed this life on February 11, 2020 at his residence in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 33 years. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home on Friday, February 14, 2020. Interment followed in the Bernie Cemetery...

Carolyn Jo Postek of Dexter, daughter of the late Harold Theodore and Josephine Adams Schellenger, was born in St. Louis on September 22, 1947, and passed away at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter on February 14, 2020, at the age of 72 years, 4 months and 23 days...

Nedra Ann Gaines, daughter of the late Cecil Beckham and Lily Lusk Beckham, was born on May 12, 1941 and departed this life on February 10, 2020 at Missouri Delta Medical Center Graveside services were conducted at Dexter Cemetery on Thursday, February 13, 2020...

Mary Ann Lee, 79 of Bernie, Missouri passed away February 11, 2020 at her home in Bernie.  Visitation will be Saturday, February 22, 2020 from 2 p.m.  till 4 p.m.  A memorial service will then began at 4 p.m. in the Mathis Funeral Chapel.  Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie in charge of all arrangements...

June Mozell McMullin Miller, youngest daughter of the late James Alberson and Laura Alice Marker Alberson, was born on May 19, 1926 in Big Ridge, Missouri and departed this life on February 11, 2020 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, at the age of 93 years...

Mary Edith Cox, daughter of the late Logan Tucker and Nicie McCaskill Tucker, was born on November 19, 1921 in McNary County, Tennessee and departed this life on February 14, 2020 at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 98 years...

Faye Delores Miller, 85, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. Faye was born on May 8, 1934 in Lutesville, Mo., the daughter of Herbert and Ethel (Elledge) Crites. On Aug. 22, 1952, she married Robert Ferrell Miller in Essex, Mo. Together they shared more than 60 years of marriage before his passing Aug. 20, 2013...

The Puxico School Board approved the evaluation of health services at Puxico Schools, as well as approved changes to the summer school program. The district has developed and implemented a program for school health services, which includes goals and objectives, service activities and an evaluation design. ...

This year the Missouri Music Educators Association (MMEA) created the first ever all-state children’s choir. Dexter fifth-grade student Lydia Christian was selected to this inaugural choir. MMEA generally formed all-state choirs and bands for students at the high school level. Those groups perform at the Tan-Tar-A Conference Center in Osage Beach. This year the opportunity was extended to younger students...

“When I first decided to attend Ruth Gibson’s painting class many years ago,” laughs Betty McClintock of Dexter, “I had no idea how learning to paint would affect my life. One four-week class led to another, and with few exceptions, I have painted every day since then. Even when I broke my hip, I painted. It was therapy for me.”...