Stories from Tuesday, November 7, 2023

On Friday Evelyn Hunt (seated center) celebrated her 102nd birthday. Joining her to celebrate was her nephew Todd Stroder (standing left), his girlfriend Heidi Reed and family friend Loyd Gains. Stroder and Reed brought Hunt a pork steak dinner from his restaurant Broosters Butts Bones and Pie. Hunt received gifts and cards from Gains and other family and friends that stopped by...

The Stoddard County Commissioner meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer for the county officials by Presiding Commissioner Greg Mathis. Judge Satterfield showed the Commission a photo of a confiscated weapon from a middle school student from this weekend who made threats to other students. The weapon in question is an AR-15...

Norma Jean Christian, daughter of the late George DeLay and Eula Hobbs Delay, was born on May 4, 1937, in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, and departed this life October 30, 2023, in Jefferson City, Missouri, at the age of 87. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on November 7, 2023. Interment followed in the Bloomfield Cemetery...

Harold Merick Jr, son of the late Harold Merick Sr and Edith Bond Merick was born on April 9, 1938, and departed this life on October 31, 2023, in Aquilla, Missouri, at the age of 85. Funeral services were conducted at Trinity Methodist Church in Bloomfield on November 4, 2023. Interment followed in the Bloomfield Cemetery...

Keith Craft, son of the late Leon Craft and Flossie Turner Craft was born on March 26, 1971, in Dexter, Missouri and departed this life on November 1, 2023, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 52. Memorial services were held at Lighthouse Christian Church in Dexter on November 4, 2023...

Shirley Zimmerman, daughter of the late Walter Thurston and Orabell Deck Thurston, was born on April 18, 1942, in Bernie, Missouri and departed this life on November 5, 2023, in Bernie, Missouri, at the age of 81. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie on November 8, 2023. Interment followed in the Bernie Cemetery...

Jeffrey Barker Jr, son of Sandra Miller Williamson and Travis Williamson of Essex, Missouri and Jeffery Barker of Bloomfield, Missouri, was born on April 20, 1988, in Sikeston, Missouri, and departed this life on November 1, 2023, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 35...

Tommy Newell, son of the late Danny Reynolds and Carolyn Surface Polley, was born on November 17, 1969, in Chaffee, Missouri and departed this life on November 2, 2023, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the age of 53. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on November 6, 2023. Interment followed in the Gravel Hill Cemetery...

The Dexter Board of Aldermen passed two ordinances and addressed the potential sale of Tyson. The first ordinance was approved following a public hearing regarding the replat of two lots. Dexter City Attorney Bud Lawrence Jr. said the owner of the lots wants to build a building on one of the lots. ...