Stories from Tuesday, January 10, 2023

The Bernie School Board was presented information gathered through meetings and surveys with staff to explore the interest in a four day school week. Superintendent Dustin Hicks said the information he was presenting to the board was gathered through surveys and meetings he had with the staff. Hicks said 69.7 percent of the staff wanted to look at a four day school calendar and 22.7 percent wanted to stay at five days a week...

The Stoddard County Commission meeting opened with a change to the agenda. Commissioner Carol Jarrell made a motion to change the agenda to indicate the commission would return to open session following a closed session at 11:30 a.m. Presiding commissioner Greg Mathis seconded the motion and the motion passed on a 2-0 vote...

Bruce Gordon Dodd, 69, of Lakeland, FL, died at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, December 23, 2022 at the James A. Haley Veteran’s Hospital, Tampa, FL. Bruce was born in Dexter, MO on February 5, 1953.  He was the son of the late Fletcher Dodd and Doris Irene (Hamm) Niederstadt.  He grew up in Essex, MO before moving to Attica in 1970 to work at Harrison Steel Casting Co.  ...

John Douglas Decker, age 80, passed away on January 5, 2023 at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter. He was born on July 15, 1942 in Sikeston, MO. to the late Homer and Pauline Sorrell Decker. He was a member of Friendship Baptist Church in Dexter, MO.; he was a retired agriculture pilot...

James “Jim” H. McRoy Sr., of Farmington, entered into eternal rest on January 2, 2023, at Mercy Hospital St. Louis at the age of 73. He was born on April 6, 1949, in Bloomfield, Missouri to the late Calvin and Mildred (Bowling) McRoy. Along with his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Calvin “Gene” McRoy, and his sister, Margie Jines...

Mildred Lois Rainey, daughter of the late Merley Quick and Cleo Wilson, was born on January 29, 1932, in rural Bloomfield, Missouri, and departed this life on January 7, 2023, at Winchester Nursing Center, in Bernie, Missouri, at the age of 91 years...

Phylis Jean Reinbott passed away on January 3, 2023 at the age of 75.  Visitation will be Saturday, January 7, 2023 from 10:00 am until Noon in the Mathis Funeral Chapel of Bernie.  Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie at Noon.  Interment will follow in Dexter Cemetery.  Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie is assisting with all arrangements...

Jewell Fisher, daughter of the late Willie Rhine and Edna Anderson Rhine, was born on June 26, 1927, in Gamaliel, Arkansas, and departed this life on January 6, 2023, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 95. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Sunday, January 8, 2023. Interment followed in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Bell City, Missouri...

Johnny Lutz, son of the late Eugene Otto Lutz and Katie Hall Aldrich, was born on October 20, 1962, in Goshen, Indiana, and departed this life on January 2, 2023, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 60. Services will be planned at a later date. Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter assisted with arrangements...

Sheri Weathers, daughter of Thelma Weathers of Dexter, Missouri and the late Robert Lee Weathers was born on August 25, 1965, in Dexter, Missouri, and departed this life on January 7, 2023, in Bernie, Missouri, at the age of 57. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday, January 10, 2023...

Elbert Shepherd, son of the late Belva Shepherd and Thelma Shepherd Page, was born on July 7, 1950, in Hilliard, Missouri, and departed this life on January 6, 2023, at his residence in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 72. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Friday, January 13, 2023, from 12:30 p.m. until 2 p.m. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel on Friday, January 13, 2023, at 2 p.m...

Phylis Jean Reinbott passed away on January 3, 2023 at the age of 75.  Visitation will be Saturday, January 7, 2023 from 10:00 am until Noon in the Mathis Funeral Chapel of Bernie.  Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie at Noon.  Interment will follow in Dexter Cemetery.  Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie is assisting with all arrangements...

Stoddard County Warranty Deeds County Recorder CANDY COLLIER 12/22/22-12/30/22 • Sharon Dianine Bridgeman, Sharon Dianine Hart to Sharon Dianine Bridgeman, Dalton Holderfield, Sharon Dianne Hart, Masters and Masters ADD Advance Block 4 Lot 3 • Charles Leible, Michael Tucker, Ciara Tucker to Rocket Mortgage, SEC 22 TWP 25 R 10...

Cinda Belle Temples, daughter of the late Dallas George Miller and Rebecca Conover Miller, was born on December 3, 1930, in Gideon, Missouri and departed this life on January 8, 2023, at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 92 years.