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Commission awards CARES Act money; considers county chaplain
(Local News ~ 11/24/20)
BLOOMFIELD — The Stoddard County Commission awarded $675,184.96 in Coronovirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act money last week. The state of Missouri awarded the county $3,405,212 in CARES funds, and $2,316,121.43 has been spent so far...
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Dexter School Board considers policy updates
(Local News ~ 11/24/20)
The Dexter School Board took three policy updates under consideration at its November meeting. Under the first new policy, the Dexter School District will work to assess the educational needs of students whose native or home language is not English. Once identified, the district will provide appropriate programs to address the needs of that student...
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A Yearly Tradition - Annual Christmas gathering brings holiday cheer to foster families
(Local News ~ 11/24/20)
Twenty years after her conversation with the foster child who asked if he could have a cookie for Santa—’just in case Santa knows where I am’—Janet Moore of Dexter continues to coordinate the effort to bring Christmas to Stoddard County foster children and the families who love them...
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Belinda Joyce Lay
(Obituary ~ 11/24/20)
Belinda Joyce Lay, daughter of the late Jimmy Sartin and Joyce Stoveall Jones, was born on November 11, 1950 in Sikeston, Missouri and departed this life on November 21, 2020 at her residence in Dexter at the age of 70 years. Mrs. Lay attended Temple Baptist Church in Sikeston and was a homemaker...
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Jeffery Deon Laird
(Obituary ~ 11/24/20)
Jeffery Deon Laird, son of Wilma Menley Rodgers and the late Laverne Leo Laird, was born on January 25, 1964 in Dexter, Missouri and departed this life on November 21, 2020 at his residence in Dexter, at the age of 56 years. Mr. Laird was a truck driver and a mechanic...
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Mary Alice Swinger
(Obituary ~ 11/24/20)
Mary Alice Swinger, daughter of the late James Reaves and Laura Alberson Reaves, was born on December 11, 1932 in New Madrid County, Missouri, and departed this life on November 20, 2020 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at the age of 87 years...
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Nina Geary
(Obituary ~ 11/24/20)
Nina Geary, of Salem, Missouri, died Monday, Nov. 16, 2020 at the age of 83. Nina is survived by children, Tammy Walker and husband Arlen of Salem, Bobby Geary and wife Kim of Salem; sisters Barbara Williams of Dexter and Ethel Sheldon of Belleville, Illinois; grandchildren Leeya Hicks and husband Ryan, Haley Sentman and husband Brandon, Zack Geary, Lindsey Sampson and husband Travis; great-grandchildren Sophie, Reese, Ryan, Molly, Fisher, Oliver Geary, Pearl Hicks, Murphy and Barrett Sampson...
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Stephen Ford Schaefer
(Obituary ~ 11/24/20)
Stephen Ford Schaefer, son of the late Paul Schaefer and Susan Stansfield Schaefer, was born on November 29, 1946 in Sykesville, Maryland, and departed this life on November 20, 2020 at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter, Missouri, at age of 73 years...
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Miriam Rose Coblentz
(Obituary ~ 11/24/20)
Miriam Rose Coblentz, was born on December 22, 1952 in Lima, Ohio, and departed this life on November 20, 2020 at her residence in Advance, Missouri, at the age of 67 years. Funeral services were conducted at Crowley Ridge Mennonite Church in Advance on Wednesday, November 25, 2020. Interment followed in the Pike Mennonite Cemetery in Harrisonburg, Virginia...
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Stoddard County confirms three COVID-19 related deaths; 29 new cases
(Local News ~ 11/24/20)
Ben Godwin, the director of the Stoddard County Health Center , confirmed three COVID-19 related deaths in the county Tuesday afternoon. Godwin said two cases were related to the nursing home outbreak and one outside the outbreak. Godwin also confirmed 29 new cases of COVID-19 and 68 recoveries...
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Edna Anderson
(Obituary ~ 11/24/20)
Edna Anderson, daughter of the late Lonzo Wolpers and Mina Duncan Wolpers, was born on June 4, 1919 in Zalma, Missouri, and departed this life on November 22, 2020 at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 101 years. Mrs. Anderson retired from Bloomfield RXIV Schools, where she worked in the lunch room. She was a member of the Dexter Church of Christ and a resident of Dexter...
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