Stories from Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Ouida Jean Bowie-Whicker, age 92, of Puxico, Missouri, passed in the presence of family on Thursday, Oct. 07, 2021, at Puxico Nursing and Rehab in Puxico. She was born May 27, 1929, in Greenbrier, Arkansas, daughter of the late Elihue B. and Eva V. Bowie...

Gary G. Putnam, son of Vivian Perry Putnam-Johnson of Bernie, Missouri, and the late Glen Putnam, was born on May 9, 1945, in Lindsay, California, and departed this life on October 6, 2021, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 76. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Monday, October 11, 2021. Interment followed in the Hagy Cemetery in Dexter...

Carol Ann McGowen, daughter of the late William Rath and Patricia Gowins Rath, was born on July 13, 1956, in St. Louis, Missouri, and departed this life on October 7, 2021, in Puxico, Missouri, at the age of 65. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Monday, October 11, 2021. Interment followed in the Hobbs Chapel Cemetery in Puxico...

Brenda Lee Pruitt, daughter of the late Robert Dean Fotsch and Effie Jane Metropolis, was born on December 19, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, and departed this life on October 9, 2021, in Fenton, Missouri, at the age of 69. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Friday, October 15, 2021, from 2:00 p.m. ...

Deborah Jean Cossey, daughter of the late Thomas Jefferson McGowen and Pansy Eloise McGowen, was born on November 9, 1951, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and departed this life on October 8, 2021, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the age of 69. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday, October 12, 2021. Interment followed in the Dexter Cemetery...

The Bernie School Board worked through a light agenda Monday evening during its October meeting. The board approved two program evaluations during the meeting. The first was the food service program evaluation presented by superintendent Dustin Hicks. ...

Recently The Lighthouse Church in Dexter opened its doors to students from the A.T. Still University (ATSU)-Missouri School of Dentistry & Oral Health in St. Louis. The students were at the church as part of its Smiles of Hope program, which is overseen by Kevin DeArman, who is the dental minister, administrator and coordinator of the program...

The Dexter Police Department and the Stoddard County Sheriffs Department are seeking any information regarding an ongoing theft investigation which occurred at the Gallery and Old Timers Flea Market. Detective Thomas Forkum with the Dexter Police Department said in a news release that a black male subject wearing an all-black Nike jumpsuit with a gold Nike emblem and a black female subject wearing light blue scrubs which appear to have butterflies on them stole an undisclosed amount of U.S currency in two separate thefts Monday. ...

The Dexter Police Department is asking for the public’s help to locate a missing Dexter man. The Dexter Police Department said 61 year old Robert Watts traveled to Chicago over the weekend to attend a friend’s funeral. Watts was reported to have checked out of Ashland Hotel in Chicago at 2 a.m. on Monday, October 11...