Larry E. Curtner
Apr 4, 2016
Larry Earl Curtner, 77, a life-long resident of the Sikeston area, died Monday, April 4, 2016 at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born June 24, 1938 in Matthews to the late Clarence and Edith (Schaefer) Curtner. He had been an over-road truck driver, a veteran of the U.S. Army and a member of Disabled American Veterans. On September 19,...
Joan Marlene McKinley Harris
Apr 3, 2016
Joan Marlene McKinley Harris, age 79, a resident of Bertrand, Missouri died April 3, 2016 at Parkview Nursing & Rehab Center in Paducah, KY after an extended illness. She was born May 16, 1936 in Bertrand, Missouri to the late William B. and Rosa McKenney McKinley. Marlene graduated from Charleston High School in 1954 and attended Central Methodist College on...
Barbara Ann Casey
Apr 2, 2016
BARBARA ANN CASEY, Age 73, died Saturday, April 2, 2016, at her home in Sikeston. She was born February 26, 1943, at Sikeston, MO, to the late Charles "Charlie" Brown, Sr. and Iva Sherwood Brown. She had lived in Sikeston most of her life working as a house painter and cleaning lady and was of Pentecostal Belief. On September 25,...
James Franklin Whiteside
Apr 1, 2016
JAY WHITESIDE JAMES FRANKLIN 'JAY' WHITESIDE, Age 83, died Friday, April 1, 2016, at his home in Cape Girardeau. Born August 8, 1932, at Sikeston, MO, to the late Ralph and Reba E. Hargrave Whiteside, he was a 1950 graduate of Charleston High School. Following his graduation, he was employed with Farm-all and MIT in Charleston. In 1964, he and...
Alan M. Whitaker
Apr 1, 2016
Alan Marc Whitaker, 68, formerly of Sikeston, died Friday April 1, 2016 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 4, 1947 in Sikeston to the late Francis Marion and Martha Cristeen (Waters) Whitaker. He was a member of Miner Baptist Church and was an avid supporter of the Republican Party and was often known as...
Bryan "Pops" Montgomery
Mar 30, 2016
Bryan E. "Pops" Montgomery, 62, a life-long resident of the Sikeston area, died Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at his home near Bell City. He was born Nov. 19, 1953 in Sikeston to Bertha Joanna (Skaggs) Farley who survives of Sikeston and the late Wendell Farley. He was a supervisor at Alan Wire where he had been employed for nearly 30...
Mary Lou Bruenderman Newcomb
Mar 25, 2016
MARY LOU BRUENDERMAN NEWCOMB, age 87, died Friday, March 25, 2016 at her residence in Charleston. She was born June 12, 1928 in Charleston to the late Bernard Joseph and Margaret Louise Renaud Bruenderman. She had lived in Charleston her entire life where she was a member of St. Henry Catholic Church, St. Henry Quilting Club, and Daughters of Isabella....
Keith Delane Whitehead
Mar 21, 2016
Keith DeLane Whitehead, age 64, peacefully passed away Monday, March 21, 2016 at his home in Charleston. He was born May 30, 1951 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri to the late Herald Eugene Whitehead and Bernece Imogene Revelle Whitehead. He grew up in Advance, Missouri where he graduated from Advance High School in 1969. Upon graduation he joined his father in...
Juanita Runnels
Mar 19, 2016
Bessie Juanita Runnels, age 100, died Saturday, March 19, 2016 at Miner Nursing Center. She was born June 8, 1915 in Ellis Grove, Illinois to the late William and Lou Ethel (Hughes) Leavitt. She graduated Sparta Township High School in Illinois in 1934,and was capped from St. Luke's School of Nursing in St. Louis in 1945. She was a charter...
Rebecca M. Sisk
Mar 17, 2016
REBECCA M. SISK, Age 85, a resident of Bertrand, died Thursday, March 17, 2016, at her the home of her daughter, Melissa Pickett, in Charleston, MO. Born July 31, 1930, at Lowndes, MO, to the late Virgil H. and Beulah Ellen Houseman Earnheart, she had lived in Mississippi County most of her life where she was retired from the Brown...
Broce C. Doyle
Mar 16, 2016
BROCE C. DOYLE, Age 63, died Wednesday, March 16, 2016, at his home in Charleston, surrounded by his family and friends. Born January 3, 1953, in St. Louis, MO, to Margaret A. Golightly Vinson who survives of Charleston and the late William Amethyst Doyle, he had lived in St. Louis a number of years and had been employed as a...
Roy Lee Chandler
Mar 14, 2016
Roy Lee Chandler, age 69, of Jackson, MS, went to be with our Lord Jesus Christ on Monday, March 14, 2016 in Jackson. He was born on December 9, 1946 in St. Louis, Mo., the son of the late Jim Chandler and Hazel Thurman Chandler Bouler. He was a member of Grandview Baptist Church in Pearl, MS. He was a...
Ruth L. Terrell
Mar 12, 2016
Ruth Lavern Terrell, 75, a life long resident of Sikeston, died Saturday March 12, 2016 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born December 2, 1940 in Sikeston to the late Charles and Ora (Raines) Hazel. She was a graduate of Sikeston High School, a member of Illinois Avenue General Baptist Church and had been employed for many...
Dora Shelby Bomar
Mar 10, 2016
DORA SHELBY BOMAR, age 87, a resident of Marion, OH, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died March 10, 2016, at the Presidential Center Home Health Care in Marion, OH. On February 27, 1929 Dora was born in Sikeston, Missouri, one of 12 children, to the late Robert and Hallie (Watson) Shelby. She graduated from Diehlstadt High School and worked at the...
Opal Parham
Mar 9, 2016
Opal Louise Parham, 86, died at her home in Sikeston Wednesday, March 9, 2016. She was born Nov. 23, 1929 in Hickman, Kentucky to the late Wilton Edward and Ovella Mae (Stokes) Scott. She moved to Sikeston in 1969 from East Prairie and was a member of Trinity Gospel Church. She was well known for her talented skills as a...
Dorothy Jean Lee
Mar 7, 2016
Dorothy Jean Lee, 80, died Monday, March 7 at Sikeston Convalescent Center. She was born December 12, 1935 at Litchfield, Illinois to Lucille (Westhoff) Griffith Uthoff who survives of Sikeston and the late Walt Griffith. A resident of this area most of her life, she was a member of Concordia Lutheran Church and had been a clerk at the Scott...
Ted Leonard
Mar 4, 2016
Ted Dewayne Leonard, 67, died at his home in Sikeston, Friday, March 4, 2016. He was born April 25, 1948 in Poplar Bluff to the late George and Cora (McMullin) Leonard. A resident of this area for over 40 years, he was of the Lutheran faith and had been a brick layer and masonry worker. He was a veteran of...
Hester Lee Pehm
Mar 1, 2016
HESTER LEE PEHM, age 86, a resident of Charleston, MO, died Tuesday, March 01, 2016, at the Charleston Manor. Born May 16, 1929, at Blytheville, AR, to the late John Obie and Lula Bell Mann Hall, she had lived in Charleston most of her life where she was a member of the First Assembly of God Church and had worked...
David Lee Ketchum
Mar 1, 2016
DAVID LEE KETCHUM, Age 61, a resident of Charleston, died Tuesday, March 1, 2016, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born June 28, 1954, at Wyatt, MO, to the late Jack Stonewall and Gladys Josephine Perry Ketchum, he had lived in Charleston most of his life. A 1975 graduate of Kelly High School, he had been employed...
Bill Edwards
Feb 24, 2016
WILLIAM ELMER EDWARDS, JR. (Bill Edwards), age 86, of Cairo, IL, was born April 12, 1929 and passed from this life, February 24, 2016. Devoted Christian, father, husband and teacher, Bill is survived by his daughter, Dr. Jackie Edwards-Henry of Starkville, Mississippi, his brother, Robert Edwards of Harrisburg, Illinois, and four nephews and two nieces. Preceding him in death are...
