Stories from Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Bernie-Pauletta Darlene Beck, 73,  passed away December 14, 2022.  Visitation was Monday, December 19, 2022 at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie, Missouri from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p. . Funeral Services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie starting at 2 p.m.  Interment will follow in Bernie Cemetery.  Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie is assisting family with arrangements...

Jean Jordan, daughter of the late James Lee and Beatrice Potts Lee, was born on July 7, 1938, in Hartford, Kentucky, and departed this life on December 15, 2022, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at the age of 84. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Monday, December 19, 2022. Interment followed in the Bernie Cemetery...

Hillary Mercier, daughter of Janet Coleman Conner and the late Robert Steven Conner, was born on August 10, 1980, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and departed this life on December 12, 2022, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 42. No services are planned...

Margery Standridge, daughter of the late Floyd Lewis and LaWanda Batson Throne, was born on October 9, 1962, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and departed this life on December 14, 2022, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 60. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Friday, December 23, 2022, from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel on Friday, December 23, 2022, at 2:00 p.m...

James “Jim” Russell, son of the late Roscoe Russell and Nena Buchanan Russell, was born near Bernie, Missouri, on June 2, 1930, and departed this life on December 18, 2022, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 92. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Interment followed in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield....

Patricia Ann “Pat” Moore, daughter of the late Raymond Robert Moore and Geraldine Hood Krigbaum, was born on September 10, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri, and departed this life on December 17, 2022, at Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky, at the age of 70 years...

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State Auditor Nicole Galloway his issued her office’s audit of Stoddard County. The county received a rating of “good,” an improvement from the “fair” rating given by the previous state audit in March 2018. “I’m encouraged that Stoddard County officials indicated they plan to implement, or have implemented, the audit’s recommendations and that there was overall improvement from the previous review done by my office in 2018,” Galloway said...

Charles “C.G.” Edwards, son of the late Louis Lee Edwards and Daisy Ann Baker. He was born on February 20, 1936, in LaValle, Missouri, and departed this life on December 15, 2022, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 86. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Interment followed in the West Pleasant Valley Cemetery...

During a press conference Tuesday at the State Capitol, Gov. Mike Parson announced he is appointing Vivek Malek as the next state treasurer of the state of Missouri. Malek’s appointment will fill the vacancy created by the election of Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick to the Office of Missouri State Auditor. Malek, 45, of Wildwood, Missouri, is a practicing attorney and business owner. He owns and operates the Law Offices of Vivek Malek...