Jul 20, 2009

KAREN BARBER BYRUM, Age 48, died Monday, July 20, 2009 at her home in Charleston. She was born May 19, 1961 in Blytheville, AR to the late Larry F. Byrum and Bertie Marie Barber Byrum Staples. She had lived in Cape Girardeau a number of years and returned to Charleston in 2005 to care for her mother. A graduate of...

Jul 12, 2009

PENELOPE M. 'PENNY' CRENSHAW GRIGGS, age 65, a resident of Charleston, died at 5:50 p.m., Sunday, July 12, 2009 at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born January 28, 1944, at San Diego, CA to the late Dr. Edwin Addison Taylor and Dr. Eva Gaede Taylor. Following her marriage to Richard V. Crenshaw, the couple moved to...

Jul 9, 2009

ARTHUR GALE NUNLEY, Age 48, a resident of Bertrand, died Thursday, July 9, 2009 near Fulton, Missouri. Born April 4, 1961 at Princeton, KY to Mary O. Hook Nunley who survives of Memphis, TN and the late Robert M. Nunley, he grew up in Memphis, TN and was a graduate of Ole Miss University at Oxford, MS. In 2000, he...

Jul 6, 2009

DORLA ANN SHIPMAN TALLEY, age 74, died at 4:15 p.m. on Monday, July 6, 2009 at her home in East Prairie. She was born September 15, 1934 in Anniston to the late Clifton and Inez Shipman. She lived most of her life in California where she retired as an office manager in 1988. After retirement she returned to Missouri and...

Jun 28, 2009

JAMES HAROLD TATUM, age 84, died Sunday, June 28, 2009, at 12:15 p.m. at his residence in Anniston. He was born January 29, 1925 in the Deventer Community of Mississippi County to the late Morgan and Mae Sams Tatum. He had lived in Anniston most of his life where he had worked in farming until his retirement. He had been...

Jun 20, 2009

LAWRENCE JOSEPH McKINNEY, Age 60, died at 10:20 a.m., Saturday, June 20, 2009, at his home in Charleston. He was born March 1, 1949 in Charleston, Missouri, to Neoma Beth Gay McKinney who survives of Charleston and the late Emory McKinney. He had lived in Charleston his entire life where he was a member of the First Baptist Church. For...

Jun 18, 2009

GERALDINE "JERRY" LAFAYE WILLIAMS, age 80, died at 12:35 a.m., Thursday, June 18, 2009 at her residence in rural Sikeston. She was born November 28, 1928 in East Prairie to the late Robert and Hattie Mae Jeffries Nunn. She was a graduate of East Prairie High School and had lived in Mississippi County most of her life until moving to...

Jun 9, 2009

JOHN IRVINE ROBESON, Age 78, a resident of Sikeston, died Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at the Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born July 13, 1930 in Detroit, Mich., to the late James Erwin and Mary Alice Bryant Robeson, he was a 1948 graduate of Charleston High School where played football on the team that had one of the schools most...

Jun 7, 2009

HAROLD C. BILLINGTON, age 87, died Sunday, June 7, 2009, at his residence in Bertrand, MO. He was born September 3, 1921, at Lilbourn, Mo., to the late Samuel E. and Edna Sheridon Billington. He lived in West Columbia, TX over 47 years where he was employed with the Dow Chemical Company as a brick mason. In 1997 he moved...

Jun 5, 2009

THEODORE WILSON LINEBAUGH, age 91, a life long resident of Charleston died at 10:07 p.m. Friday, June 5, 2009 at the Charleston Manor. He was born December 10, 1917 in Charleston to the late Samuel and Mina Brooks Linebaugh. He lived in Charleston his entire life where he was employed as a heavy equipment operator. He was a member of...

Mar 21, 2009

JOHN W. HODGES II, ag e 58, a resident of Sikeston, formerly of Charleston, died Saturday, March 21, 2009, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

He was born November 3, 1950 in Cairo, IL to the late John W. "Jake" Hodges and Anna Sue Davis Hodges. He...

Mar 14, 2009

MILDRED ALVEY COOTS , age 85, a resident of Bertrand, died at 8:45 p.m. Saturday, March 14, 2009, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

She was born January 31, 1924 in Mississippi County to the late Oscar and Ida Frances Stowe Alvey. She had lived in Mississippi...

Feb 26, 2009

MARY ELLEN WASEM SULLENGER, age 97, a resident of Cape Girardeau, MO formerly of Charleston, MO died Thursday, February 26, 2009 at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau, MO. She was born February 24, 1912 in Wickliffe, KY to the late Marshall Henry and Lillie Virginia Riley Rollins. She grew up in Wickliffe where she became a member of the...

Feb 19, 2009

Mildred Wallhausen, publisher of The Enterprise-Courier since 1969 and a member of the newspaper's staff for 73 years, died Thursday, February 19, 2009 at her home in East Prairie at the age of 94. Mrs. Wallhausen served The Enterprise-Courier at various times as publisher, proofreader, advertising salesperson, bookkeeper, business manager, file clerk, stuffer, mailer, office supply store manager, circulation manager,...

Feb 19, 2009

BRYLEA ANNE HUNSPERGER, infant daughter of Kenneth Jason and Sharron Suzanne Simpson Hunsperger of Wyatt, died at birth at 4:05 a.m., Thursday, February 19, 2009 at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Surviving besides her parents are: one sister, Jaidyn Maxine Hunsperger of Wyatt; one half sister, Erica LaShea Counts of Harrisburg, IL; her maternal grandmother, Ruth Simpson of...

Feb 10, 2009

DR. JOHN T. BIRD, JR. Former Charleston resident. Dr. John T. Bird, Jr., was a kind man. He was deeply loved and will be greatly missed by his friends and family. John passed away at 2:10 am on February 10, 2009. He had been diagnosed with pneumonia and lung cancer. He lived 89 years on his own, spent 3 weeks...

Feb 9, 2009

BETTY L. TAYLOR WIGGINS, Age 76, a resident of Salem, IL and formerly of Charleston, MO, died Monday, February 9, 2009 at the Salem Township Hospital in Salem, IL. She was born September 28, 1932 in Morehouse, MO to the late Rass L. and Nettie Pearl Sharkey Taylor. She had lived at Woodriver, IL for many years moving to Banning,...

Sep 2, 2008

LESLIE ELMER TROUSDALE, Age 80, formerly of Sedgewickville and also Mississippi County, MO, died Tuesday, September 02, 2008 at the DeGreeff Hospice Center in St. Louis, MO. He was born July 19, 1928 at Shawneetown, IL to the late Abner Pulaski and Mary Elizabeth Smith Trousdale. He was employed with General Motors for a number of years until his retirement...

Aug 20, 2008

LINDELL GLENN ESTES, Age 85, a resident of rural Charleston, died Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at the Bertrand Nursing Center. Born March 11, 1923 at Scopus, MO to the late Jesse Lee and Inola Welker Estes, he had lived and farmed at Sand Hill Farm in Scott County for over fifty years. A US Army Veteran, he served during World...

Aug 8, 2008

VELMA LOUISE JOHNSON, age 80, resident of Charleston, died at 5:30 a.m. Friday, August 8, 2008 at St. John's Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. She was born December 29, 1927 in East Prairie to the late John and Gertrude Wright McCarty. She lived in East Prairie prior to moving to Charleston in 1954. A member of the Elm Street Baptist...