Stories from Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Lehman Jennings, 86, of Marshall, Missouri, died Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, at Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall. Memorial services were held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, at First United Methodist Church in Marshall with Pastor Liz Lindley officiating. ...

Gregory Carroll, son of Truitt Carroll of Bakersfield, California and the late Martha McDaniel Carroll, was born Sept. 23, 1970, in Los Angeles, California, and departed this life Oct. 7, 2024 in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 54. No services are planned...

Barbara Teresa Lack passed away Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024 at Saint Francis Medical Center, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Lack was born Feb. 19, 1954 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Charles and Beatrice Fullerton of Dexter, Missouri. The visitation was at noon Monday, Oct. 14, 2024 at the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter, Missouri, with the funeral service beginning at 1 p.m...

Christopher Stephen Tanner, 72, of Campbell, passed away Oct. 12, 2024.  Visitation is from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie, Missouri. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. in Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie.  Interment in Bernie Cemetery. ...

Robert Morgan, son of the late William Morgan and Barbara Peevyhouse Meeks, was born June 15, 1954, in Cairo, Illinois, and departed this life Oct. 14, 2024, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 70. Visitation will be held from noon until 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. Funeral services will then be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow in the Dexter Cemetery...

Ronnie King, son of the late Fred King and Sallie Ellis King, was born May 23, 1949, in Parma, Missouri, and departed this life Oct. 10, 2024, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 75. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter Oct. 13, 2024. Interment followed in Chalk Bluff Cemetery...

Michael L. Webb, son of the late Leland Webb and Helen Shawn Henderson, was born Jan. 31, 1963, in Dexter, Missouri, and departed this life Oct. 12, 2024, in Puxico, Missouri, at the age of 61. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, 2024...

PUXICO — Waylon Powell had already taken the ACT and achieved a score that most high schoolers would be happy with. But, Powell is no ordinary high schooler. “I had gotten a 30, but I didn’t want to settle for a 30,” Powell remarked. “So I focused on beating that score.”