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Randy G. French
Mar 31, 2010
RANDOLPH GRANGER 'RANDY' FRENCH, Age 49, died Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at his home in Charleston. Born April 28, 1960 at Sikeston, Missouri to Juliet Susanne Hartsfield French, who survives of Charleston, and the late Robert Rickey "Bob" French, Sr., he had lived in Charleston most of his life. Having attended the Southeast Missouri State University at Cape Girardeau and...
Charles McCollom
Mar 26, 2010
CHARLES McCOLLOM, age 72, died Friday, March 26, 2010 at his home in Sikeston. Born September 25, 1937, at Charleston, MO, to the late Herbert Cletus and Lorene McKinney McCollom, he had lived in Sikeston a number of years and was employed as a welder with the Associated Electric in New Madrid until his retirement. He was of Baptist Belief....
Jessie Burke Brown
Mar 25, 2010
JESSIE BURKE BROWN, age 89, died peacefully in her sleep on Thursday, March 25, 2010 at St. Thomas Hospital Hospice Unit in Nashville, TN. A lifelong resident of Charleston, she had resided at Belmont Village Assisted Living Center in Nashville for the past four years. Born on June 24, 1920, she was the seventh of ten children born to the...
Billy Babb
Mar 24, 2010
WILLIAM SMITH 'BILLY' BABB, Age 49, a resident of Matthews, MO and formerly of Charleston, died Wednesday, March 24, 2010 in New Madrid County, MO. Born August 28, 1960 at Sikeston, MO to the late Edward Gene and Virginia Louise Weakley Babb, he had lived in Mississippi County most of his life and in Matthews since 2000. He was a...
Junior Brown
Mar 24, 2010
RILEY "JUNIOR" BROWN, Age 82, died Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at his home in Charleston. Born June 8, 1927 at Ashburn, MO to the late James Riley and Rosa Buchanan Brown, he had lived in Mississippi County most of his life were he was employed in farming until his retirement in 2000 and had served in the Missouri National Guard....
Florence Emma Poe
Mar 21, 2010
FLORENCE EMMA ROBINSON POE, age 112, died Sunday, March 21, 2010, at St. Francis Medical Center. Mrs. Poe was born August 24, 1897 in Farmington, Missouri to the late William "Wid" and Malinda Caroline (Jones) Robinson and was raised in Canalou, MO. She lived most of her life in Charleston prior to moving to Cape Girardeau in 1988. She was...
Dorothy L. Thompson
Mar 21, 2010
DOROTHY LOU BYRD THOMPSON, Age 87, a resident of Charleston, Mo., died Sunday, March 21, 2010 at the Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Born December 13, 1922 at St. Louis, Mo., to the late William Jennings "Bryan" and Lela Dixon Byrd, she had lived in Charleston most of her life where she had been employed with Basler Electric Company and...
Alberta Bush McKinley
Mar 21, 2010
ALBERTA SIDNEY BUSH McKINLEY, Age 91, a resident of Bertrand, Mo., died Sunday, March 21, 2010 at the Bertrand Nursing Center. Born April 26, 1918 at Bertrand, Missouri to the late Albert H. and Edythe Erie Lefler Bush, she was a lifelong resident of Bertrand and a 1937 Graduate of the Diehlstadt High School. A lifelong member of the Bertrand...
Verda Mae Tinsley
Mar 15, 2010
Verda Mae Tinsley, age 89, died early Monday, March 15, 2010, at her residence in Charleston. Born July 10, 1920 at Commerce, Texas to the late James Perry and Lillie Mae Ellenburg Saulter, she had lived in Charleston most of her life where she was a member of the First Baptist Church and had served as a Sunday school teacher...
Perry Ryles Merrick
Mar 12, 2010
PERRY RYLES MERRICK, age 86, died at 10:53 p.m. on Friday, March 12, 2010 at his residence in Charleston. Born March 14, 1923 in Anniston to the late Paul and Ethel Austin Merrick, he was raised by his late Uncle Noel and Aunt Alice Pike. Following his graduation from high school he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as...
Donnie Hatchel
Mar 10, 2010
DONALD HATCHEL, age 53, formerly of Charleston, died Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at his residence in Sikeston. He was born February 11, 1957 in Dexter to Shirley Lee Norman Blackburn who survives in Charleston and the late Lucian E. Black. He moved to Bertrand in 1968 and was a 1975 graduate of Charleston High School. In 1980 he became an...
Alma Geraldine Murphy
Mar 8, 2010
ALMA GERALDINE MURPHY, Age 80, died Monday evening, March 8, 2010, at the Bertrand Nursing Facility. Born December 28, 1929 at Portageville, Mo., to the late William Chester and Maud Aliston Hunt, she had lived in the North Chicago, IL area a number of years where she was employed with the North Chicago School District until her retirement in 1982....
Christopher Quinton Groves
Mar 6, 2010
CHRISTOPHER Q. GROVES, Age 23, a resident of Charleston, died at 3:55 a.m., Saturday, March 06, 2010, on Highway 60/62 near Wyatt, Mo., from injuries sustained in car accident. Born April 8, 1986, at Sikeston, MO, to A.J. Groves, Sr., who survives of Prairie Du Rocher, IL and Frances Momee Johnson Shulch, who survives of Wyatt, MO. He had lived...
James Edward McDermott
Mar 5, 2010
JAMES EDWARD McDERMOTT, Age 66, a resident of Charleston, died Friday, March 05, 2010 at the Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born July 10, 1943, at Cairo, IL, son of the late Bausey Houston and Louella Byrd McDermott, he had lived in Charleston his entire life and had been employed at Burkhart Foam Company at Cairo, IL for 34 years...
Charlotte McCain McMikle
Mar 5, 2010
CHARLOTTE McCAIN McMIKLE, age 75, died Friday afternoon, March 5, 2010, at her home in Sikeston. She was born November 8, 1934 in New Madrid to the late Abraham Lincoln McCain and Maggie Viola Upton McCain (Big Momma) Lewis of New Madrid. She had lived in New Madrid, East Prairie, Tallulah, LA, and then in Sikeston since 1970. She was...
Reba Whiteside Johnson
Feb 26, 2010
REBA WHITESIDE JOHNSON, age 99, a resident of Charleston, died Friday evening, February 26, 2010, at the Charleston Manor. She was the fifth child, born on the fifth day, of the fifth month in 1910, in White County,. IL to the late William W. and Alice Hutchcraft Hargrave. She had lived in Scott and Mississippi Counties all of her life...
Lois Clara st. Cin
Feb 23, 2010
LOIS CLARA ONETA WORLEY ST. CIN, Age 91, a resident of Charleston, died Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at the home of her daughter and son in law in Charleston. Born May 25, 1918 at Newport, Arkansas to the late Silas Brady and Martha Ellen "Mattie" O'Daniel Worley, she had lived in Mississippi County most of her life. Her family was...
Rebecca Carlene Tinsley
Feb 23, 2010
REBECCA CARLENE TINSLEY, Age 38, a resident of Damiansville, IL and formerly of Charleston, Mo., died Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at the St. Louis University Hospital at St. Louis, Mo. Born June 1, 1971, at Sikeston, Mo., to Charles Ervin Tinsley, Jr., who survives of Charleston and Betty Carlene Thomann Burden who survives of Sikeston, she was a 1989 graduate...
R. David White
Feb 18, 2010
R. DAVID WHITE, age 91, a resident of Charleston died at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 18, 2010, at the Charleston Manor. He was born December 2, 1918 in the Pinhook Community of Mississippi County to the late Clarence E. and Hazel Griffith White Sr. He lived in Mississippi County his entire life and was a 1935 graduate of Charleston High...
Nellie Morgan Gage
Feb 13, 2010
NELLIE L. MORGAN GAGE, age 91, a resident of Scott City died Saturday, February 13, 2010 at the Lutheran Home Assisted Living Facility in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 18, 1918 in Datto, AR to the late C.E. and Pearl E. Fears Morgan. In 1935 she moved to the Lusk Chapel Community in Scott County and worked at the...

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