Stories from Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Max Ray Summers, son of the late JB Summers and Ora Lee Elder Summers, was born on September 24, 1938, in Blytheville, Arkansas, and departed this life on February 9, 2022, at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 83 years. Mr. Summers was a former employee of Purolator, working in quality control. He attended the Risen Church in Dexter, Missouri and was a resident of Dexter...

Lela Mae Cooper, daughter of the late Billie Moore and Alma Eaker Moore, was born on April 6, 1929, in Malden, Missouri, and departed this life on February 7, 2022, in Sikeston, Missouri, at the age of 92. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Monday, February 14, 2022. Interment followed in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...

David Allan Mouser, son of the late L. L. “Buster” Mouser and Rubie Kelley Mouser, was born on December 11, 1946, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and departed this life on February 11, 2022, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 75. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Thursday, February 17, 2022, from noon to 2 p.m. ...

Nina Beth Williamson, daughter of the late Jesse Horn and Alie Eagan Horn, was born on June 21, 1948, in Strawberry, Arkansas, and departed this life on February 7, 2022, in Essex, Missouri at the age of 73. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Friday, February 18, 2022, from 10 a.m. ...

Virginia Anna Pritchard, daughter of the late William Tanner and Dorothy Barker Carr, was born on August 23, 1946, in Coral Gables, Florida, and departed this life on February 10, 2022, in Sikeston, Missouri, at the age of 75. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Monday, February 14, 2022. Interment followed in the Bloomfield Cemetery...

Shirley Ruth Tippen, daughter of the late Bland Dennington and Gertie Bell Menley Dennington, was born on November 17, 1935, in Lilbourn, Missouri, and departed this life on February 10, 2022, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 86. No services are planned...

Mary Lucinda Hibbs, daughter of the late Walter Emes and Elizabeth Janet Emes, was born on March 21, 1951, in St. Louis, Missouri, and departed this life on February 10, 2022, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 70. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Thursday, February 17, 2022, from 9 a.m. ...

Vera Staggs, daughter of the late James Andrew Jackson Jarrell and Clara Frances Kleffer Jarrell, was born on July 13, 1927, in Rural Dexter, Missouri, and departed this life on February 10, 2022, at Southeast Health of Stoddard County in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 94...

Jack Ferguson, son of the late Bruce Ferguson and Alice Studdard Ferguson, was born on December 25, 1946, in Blytheville, Arkansas, and departed this life on February 12, 2022, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at the age of 75. No services are planned. Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter is assisting with arrangements...

Phillip Lloyd Short, son of the late Odes Short and Mildred Luermann Short, was born on April 23, 1932, in Success, Arkansas, and departed this life on February 11, 2022, in Paragould, Arkansas, at the age of 89. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday, February 15, 2022. Interment followed in the Dexter Cemetery...

The Stars and Stripes Museum in Bloomfield will hold its Fighting February event on February 18 and 19. The event will be conducted by the 326th Airborne Re-enactor's Society. Assistant curator of the museum Travis Smith said the event will feature encampments, mock battles, living history displays, open WWII barracks, weapons demonstration and more. Smith said the event will feature the WWII time period...