Stories from Tuesday, October 25, 2022

The Stoddard County Commission named Beau Bishop the new Stoddard County EMA Director at its weekly meeting. Presiding commissioner Danny Talkington said nine applications were received. Bishop is currently a member of the Dexter Fire Department and will take office on November 1...

The Dexter School Board approved its 2022/23 Assessment Plan and bus routes at it October meeting. Superintendent Amy James presented the Assessment Plan to the board. She said the only changes to this year’s plan was the members or their roles on the assessment committee. The only other changes were to the testing calendar...

Joyce A. Ogelvie, daughter of the late Edgar Sylvester Campbell and Icel Lee Campbell, was born on April 20, 1943, in St. Louis, Missouri, and departed this life on October 23, 2022, at Oakdale Care Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at the age of 79 years...

Margery “Bobbie” Becking, 96 of Bernie, passed away October 22, 2022.  Visitation was Tuesday, October 25, 2022 from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m..  Funeral  Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 11 a.m. in the Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie.  Interment was at noon in Missouri State Veteran Cemetery in Bloomfield.  Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie assisted with arrangements...

Dorothy White, daughter of the late Eddie Layton and Edna Russell Layton, was born on November 16, 1932, in Bloomfield, Missouri, and departed this life on October 20, 2022, in rural Bloomfield, Missouri, at the age of 89. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Saturday, October 22, 2022. Interment followed in the North Antioch Cemetery in rural Bloomfield...

Verna Mesey, daughter of the late Daniel A. Knurbein and Gladys Witthaus Knurbein was born on March 7, 1935 in Berger, Missouri and departed this life on October 22, 2022, in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 87. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday, October 25, 2022. Interment followed in the Hagy Cemetery in Dexter...

Carol Myers, daughter of the late Stanley Brock and Lillian Mae Sindle Brock, was born on July 28, 1949 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and departed this life on October 21, 2022, in Columbia, Missouri at the age of 74. Graveside services were held on Sunday, October 23, 2022 at Dexter Cemetery...

Lilly Shelden, daughter of Barbara Jones Groves of Corning, Arkansas, and the late Roy Lee Eads, was born on April 21, 1951, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and departed this life on October 20, 2022, in Rincon, Georgia, at the age of 71. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday, October 25, 2022. Interment followed in the Dexter Cemetery in Dexter...

A natural gas leak caused the temporary closure of Two Mile Road at the railroad crossing Tuesday evening. Dexter Fire Chief Don Seymore said a tree branch fell and struck a riser, which is part of the gas line, coming out of the ground and breaking it. Seymore said son one was injured and no vehicles were involved in the incident. Along with the Dexter Fire Department, Ameren Missouri responded to the scene to repair the line...