Stories from Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Estel M. Williamson, son of the late Roy Harry Williamson and Minnie Lee Crutcher Williamson, was born on September 21, 1924, in Essex, Missouri, and departed this life on July 26, 2021, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 96 years...

Earl Theron Perkins, 67, passed away on July 19, 2021 at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born on May 6, 1954 in Poplar Bluff to the late Earl Loren and Mae Eaton Perkins. On Sept. 9, 1987 in Poplar Bluff, he married Katherine “Kathy” Swift Perkins, who survives of the home in Sikeston...

Ronnie Livingston, son of the late Robert Livingston and Lena Teeters Livingston, was born on May 23, 1938, in Bernie, Missouri and departed this life on July 18, 2021, at the age of 83 years. A memorial service was held at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield on Friday, July 23, 2021...

Marilyn Derosia, daughter of the late Buck Stinnett and Evelyn Dement Stinnett, was born on December 16, 1955, in Dexter, Missouri, and departed this life on July 20, 2021, at the age of 65 years. Funeral services were held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Sunday, July 25, 2021...

Gary Kastner, son of the late Emanuel Kastner and Lola Eason Kastner, was born on October 21, 1946, in Bloomfield, and departed this life on July 21, 2021, at the age of 74 years. Funeral services were held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Sunday, July 25, 2021...

James Monroe Vandergriff 78 of Dexter passed away July 24, 2021. Graveside Services will be conducted at Missouri State Veterans Cemetery, in Bloomfield on July 28, 2021 at 2 pm with full military honors. Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie in charge of arrangements...

Joyce Lynn Link (nee Wilkey) Born October 8, 1938, in Bell City and passed from this life on Friday, July 24, 2021. Daughter of the late Harold Raymond and Irene Brown Wilkey of Dexter. Widow of the late Raymond Link. Mother of the late Kevin DeWayne Davis. ...

The Stoddard County Farm Bureau’s annual meeting Friday commemorated Missouri’s Bicentennial, and included speakers on state and local matters. U.S. Rep. Jason Smith served as guest speaker, while two area students were awarded scholarships. The event was held at The Gathering in Dexter. A silent auction followed, with the money raised going to fund additional student scholarships...

BLOOMFIELD — The Stoddard County Commission learned last week of changes in federal requirements for the Off-System Bridge Replacement Program. The BRO program pays 80 percent of the cost through federal funds for the replacement or rehabilitation of bridges owned by local agencies...

Dexter R-XI School District Superintendent Amy James presented the board of education with the end-of-the-year transportation summary at the Tuesday, July 20, meeting. The number of miles traveled by the district’s busing fleet was 160,280 miles, up 24,277 from the 2019-20 school year. The numbers were down during the previous school year because the district shut down early because of the COVID-19 pandemic...

BLOOMFIELD — The Stoddard County ARC and Stoddard County Sheltered Workshop reported cases of COVID-19 at their facilities to the Senate Bill 40 board at Thursday night’s meeting. Stoddard County Sheltered Workshop Director Devin Miller said a couple of his clients contracted COVID-19 and the workshop was closed from July 9 until July 20 in response...

On Tuesday Stoddard County Sheriff Carl Hefner confirmed in a news release there are active COVID-19 cases in the Stoddard County Jail. “Since the COVID outbreak began we at the Stoddard County Jail have taken precautions in preventing COVID from being in our jail,” said Hefner. “Even with the precautions taken it was inevitable that COVID would get in our jail facility. We have been very fortunate to this point to not have had any cases in our jail.”...