Stories from Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Katelyn Lambert with Bootheel Regional Planning opened the weekly commission meeting with an ARPA fund update. She presented the commission with the updated list of funds that have been released, committed funds and funds still to be released. Presiding Commissioner Greg Mathis said it is unknown if any entities on the waiting list will receive funds...

The Puxico School Board approved the annual budget and joined the Ozark Foothills Conference Thursday evening at its October meeting. Superintendent Cindy Crabb said the audit came back from the auditor with nothing to discuss. She said the auditor told the district that it was the cleanest audit he had completed. The board reviewed the audit which was handed out to them and approved it...

Donald Denny, son of the late Ernest Denny and Vivian Tanner Denny, was born on January 6, 1936, in Leora, Missouri, and departed this life on October 9, 2023, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 87. Funeral services were conducted at Brown Chapel Church in Puxico on October 14, 2023. Interment followed in the Puxico City Cemetery...

Steven Childers II, son of Steven and Traci Lang Childers of Malden, Missouri, was born on January 23, 2000, in Ft. Carson, Colorado, and departed this life on October 11, 2023, in Morehouse, Missouri, at the age of 23. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie on October 14, 2023. Interment followed in Gravel Hill Cemetery in Saint Francis, Arkansas...

Randall Humphries, son of the late Billie Humphries and Earlene Dockins Humphries, was born on March 16, 1952, in Jefferson, Alabama, and departed this life on October 12, 2023, in Bernie, Missouri, at the age of 71. Graveside services were conducted at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield on October 17, 2023...

Clarence “Ed” Freeman, son of the late Clarence Freeman and Mary Dennison Freeman, was born October 16, 1954, in Herrin, Illinois, and departed this life October 13, 2023, in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 68. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on October 17, 2023...

Ronnie Bryant with Autry Morlan Chevrolet presents Danny Burnett with a gold putter in recognition of a hole in one carded by Burnett. The hole in one occurred on hole eight at Crowley Ridge Country Club in Bloomfield during an Alumni Tournament. Burnett said he used a pitching wedge from the tee box 152 yards from the pin. He said the landed on the green behind the pin and spun back into the cup for a hole in one. The feat was witnessed by Dylan Earnhart, Nathan Burnett and Brandon Stanley...