Stories from Tuesday, June 20, 2023

The Bloomfield School Board approved the district’s CSIP (Comprehensive School Improvement plan) at its June meeting. The CSIP is required to be completed by DESE (Department of Elementary and Secondary Education) every five years. The plan was presented by Dr. ...

The Puxico School Board approved meal prices and a budget amendment at its June meeting. The board approved the no meal rate increases. Student lunches will remain $2 per meal and staff lunches $2.75 per meal. Breakfast t\will remain free for students and staff rates remain $1 per meal...

Stoddard County Warranty Deeds County Recorder Candy Collier 06/05/23 to 06/09/23 • First Midwest Bank to Ronnie Edward Walk, Judy Marie Walk REEDS SECOND ADD PUXICO BLOCK 4 LOTS 13 AND 14 • Sandage Trust to Seth Don Ingle, Lacy M. Ingle SEC 23 TWP 25 R 10...

Doris Fox, daughter of the late Marvin Lacy and Fern Swinger Gaines, was born on August 1, 1940, in Frisco, Missouri, and departed this life on June 12, 2023, in Bernie, Missouri, at the age of 82. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on June 16, 2023. Interment followed in the Dexter Cemetery...

Judith Heaton, daughter of the late JT Smith and Helen Evans Weeks, was born on September 24, 1947, in Indianapolis, Indiana, and departed this life on June 13, 2023, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 75. No services are planned. Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter assisted with arrangements...

Charles LaRue, son of the late Glenn LaRue and Margaret Foushee LaRue, was born on August 19, 1942, in Bernie, Missouri and departed this life on June 14, 2023, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 80. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie on June 20, 2023. Interment followed in the Bernie Cemetery...

Theresa Forkum, daughter of Mary Lou Taylor of Dexter, Missouri, and the late Bill Taylor, was born on December 29, 1966, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and departed this life on June 9, 2023, in Fenton, Missouri, at the age of 56. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on June 17, 2023. Interment followed in the Walker Cemetery in Bloomfield...

Daniel Stanley Young, 77 of Bernie passed away June 13, 2023.  Visitation was held on Saturday, June 17, 2023 from 10 a.m. until noon at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie.  Funeral services were conducted at noon  June 17, 2023 in the Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie.  Interment followed in the Bernie Cemetery.  Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie assisted the family with arrangements...

Brenda Thomas, daughter of the late Bascomb Gardner and Verla Tidwell Gardner, was born on March 23, 1948, in Huntsville, Alabama, and departed this life on June 9, 2023, in Sikeston, Missouri, at the age of 75. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on June 16, 2023. Interment followed in the Taylor Cemetery in Essex...

Hilda Ellen Green, daughter of the late Arther James Dockree and Constance May Gillett Dockree, was born on August 8, 1921, in London, England, and departed this life on June 14, 2023, at her residence in Puxico, Missouri, at the age of 101. Mrs. Green was a homemaker. She enjoyed baking, sewing, and knitting; she loved knitting gloves to give to foster children...

Barbara Joyce Denson, daughter of the late Jim “Buster” Mills and Gladys North Mills, was born on July 23, 1940, in Parma, Missouri, and departed this life on June 16, 2023, at Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 82 years. Mrs. ...

Edward Lee Craigo, son of the late Arthur Earl Craigo Jr. and Margaret Lou Ellen Frazier Barnard, was born on May 24, 1969, in Elkhart, Indiana, and departed this life on June 16, 2023, at his residence in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 54 years. Mr. Craigo was a former employee of Tyson Food in Dexter...

The Stoddard County Commission opened the meeting with The Pledge and a prayer. Presiding Commissioner Greg Mathis stated that no one from Bootheel Regional Planning Commission would be at the meeting to provide an update on the ARPA funds. He did drop off the documents left by Terry Bates, New Lisbon Township. Someone would take a look at them this week. Bates had requested ARPA Funds to repair bridges he discussed at a previous meeting...