Stories from Tuesday, January 24, 2023

The Stoddard County Senate Bill 40 Board (SB40) discussed the ARC Funding Agreement, for the Stoddard County ARC at its January meeting. Board Chairman Josh Hester said a contract is sent to the ARC Board and Sheltered Workshop Board each year. The contract is signed and returned and is the agreement between SB40 and the entities involved. ...

The City of Bernie held a public hearing to update citizens on the city’s attempt to obtain a $750,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). Grant writer Mitzi Dell with Dell Consultants said the city is applying for the grant to apply to the water project in Bernie...

Thomas Franklin Daniels, 79 of Parma, MO Passed away January 19 2023.  Graveside services were conducted in Bernie Cemetery on Saturday, January 21, 2023 starting at 10:00AM. Interment followed.  Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie is assisted the family with arrangements...

Wanda Harris, daughter of the late Herman Williamson and Maurene Jackson Box, was born on January 5, 1953, in Bloomfield, Missouri, and departed this life on January 18, 2023, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 70. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Sunday, January 22, 2023. Interment followed in the Fairview Cemetery, in Puxico...

Robert Borden, son of the late Donald Borden and Mary Moore Borden, was born on August 27, 1962, in St. Louis, Missouri, and departed this life on January 18, 2023, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 60. No services are planned. Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter assisted with arrangements....

Vicki Lynn Haas, 57 of Bernie passed away January 21, 2023.  Visitation will be conducted on Thursday, January 26, 2023 in Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie, from noon until 2 p.m.  Funeral services will then be conducted at 2 p.m. in the Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie on Thursday, January 26, 2023 starting at 2 p.m.  Interment will follow in Bernie Cemetery.  Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie is assisting with arrangements...

Eddie Edmonds Jr., son of Fleta Sue Edmonds and the late Eddie Edmonds Sr. was born on May 15, 1956, in Heidelberg, Germany, and departed this life on January 14, 2023, in Conroe, Texas, at the age of 66. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie on Saturday, January 28, 2023, from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. A memorial service will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel on Saturday, January 28, 2023, at 2 p.m. Interment will follow in the Bernie Cemetery...

•••Barker has been located safe*** The Stoddard County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s help to locate a missing Stoddard County man. The Stoddard County Sheriffs Office received a report from family members that Jeffery Barker, Jr was last seen on Sunday around midnight walking from a residence in Circle City. ...

Inclement weather hindered the delivery late Tuesday and early Wednesday of the Jan. 25 editions of the Daily American Republic, The Prospect-News and the Dexter Statesman. The editions will be free access on the newspapers’ websites because of these issues...