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Nancy (Parr) Chappell Hurst
Dec 29, 2022
Nancy Carol Chappell Hurst, age 81, of Sikeston, died Thursday, December 29, 2022, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.
Born December 1, 1941, at Wyatt, MO, to the late Raymond Arthur Parr and Sue Ann Murphy Parr. She had lived in Sikeston for several years.
On May 28, 1983, she married Donald Hurst...
Jo Ann Riggs Mills
Dec 28, 2022
Jo Ann Riggs Mills, age 79, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, December 28, 2022, at the Bertrand Nursing and Rehab Center.
She was born October 6, 1943, at Dallas, TX, to the late Kenneth David Riggs and Thelma Estelle Irwin Riggs. Raised in Dallas, TX, she then lived in Inglewood, CA a number of years, working in the...
Jimmie Don Holmes
Dec 28, 2022
J immie Don Holmes, age 79, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, December 28, 2022, at the Delta South Nursing Center in Sikeston.
Born May 24, 1943, at Kennett, MO, to the late Walter Thurston Holmes and Ida Mae Bagby Holmes, Jimmie was raised in the Senath area. Following his high school graduation, he entered into the U.S. Army,...
Sherry Lynn Propst
Dec 27, 2022
Sherry Lynn Davis Propst, age 57, of Sikeston, died Tuesday, December 27, 2022, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
Born July 16, 1965, at Sikeston, MO, to Carolyn Janette Turner Davis and the late William A. "Bill" Davis, she was a 1983 graduate of Sikeston High School and a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church. ...
Helen Hunter Shelby Lee
Dec 27, 2022
Helen Hunter Shelby Lee, 92, formerly of East Prairie, passed away Tuesday, December 27, 2022, at her home in Hattiesburg, MS.
Mrs. Lee was a member of the Main Street United Methodist Church of Hattiesburg and a former member of the Nelson Memorial United Methodist Church in East Prairie.
She was preceded in death by...
Debra Sue Napier Patton
Dec 24, 2022
Debra Sue Patton, age 65, a resident of Sikeston, died Saturday, December 24, 2022, at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
She was born March 22, 1957, at Peoria, IL, to Carl Napier who survives of Sikeston, and the late Elameda Wade Napier. She had lived in Sikeston most of her life and worked several years at...
Dan Joslyn
Dec 24, 2022
Dr. Wallace Danforth Joslyn, 83, of Tulsa, Oklahoma died Saturday, December 24, 2022.
Dan was born on April 13, 1939 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri to Lewis Danforth Joslyn and Margaret Bernice Gallup Joslyn. Dan enjoyed running, track and field, travel, photography, history, carpentry, investing and staying abreast of sports, political and scientific progress. He is the author...
Carolyn Tousky Baker
Dec 23, 2022
Carolyn Tousky Baker, age 82, of Charleston, died Friday, December 23, 2022, at the Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston, Mo.
She was born January 17, 1940, in Mississippi County, MO, to the late Rudolph Alvin Tousky and Ruth Lee McIntosh Tousky and had lived in Charleston most of her life.  She was a known gospel singer in...
Erma Jean Braswell
Dec 22, 2022
Erma Jean Bodimer Braswell, age 91, of Sikeston, Mo., died Thursday, December 22, 2022 at Bertrand Nursing and Rehab Center in Bertrand, MO.
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She was born September 9, 1931, in St. Louis, MO, to Benjamin Albert Bodimer, Sr. and Nellie Elizabeth Kay Bodimer. In her early years, she served as a Southern Bell switchboard...
Burton D. Basden
Dec 22, 2022
Burton D. Basden, age 87, of Diehlstadt, MO, formerly of Athens, AL, died Thursday, December 22, 2022, at the Aspire Senior Living Center in East Prairie, MO.
Complete obituary information is pending.
Graveside services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m., Friday, December 30, 2022, at the Roselawn Cemetery in Athens, Alabama.  Limestone Funeral Service of...
Norman Joseph Cyr
Dec 21, 2022
NORMAN JOSEPH CYR, age 78, died Wednesday, December 21, 2022, at his home in Dogwood, MO.
Norman was born May 30, 1944, at Cambridge, MA, to the late Claude Cyr and Germaine Hebert Cyr.  Norman served in the U.S. Air Force as a fireman and after his honorable discharge, he continued the rest of his life to...
Nellie Jones
Dec 19, 2022
Nellie Jones
Martha Nell "Nellie" Jones, age 80, of Bertrand, died Monday, December 19, 2022, at the Bertrand Nursing and Rehab Center.
Born October 23, 1942, in Ballard County, MO, to the late Howard Jones and Susie Douglas Jones, and was among the first class to graduate from Ballard Memorial High School. Nellie had lived...
Pat Lambert
Dec 18, 2022
Patricia Ann Barnes "Pat" Lambert, age 75, a resident of East Prairie, died Sunday, December 18, 2022, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.
Born Dec 11, 1947, in Medina TN, to the late Grady O'Dell Barnes and Nancy Imogene Tate Barnes. She married her grade school sweetheart and the love of her life, Alden...
Stephanie Diane Higgins
Dec 18, 2022
Stephanie Diane Higgins, age 55, died Sunday, December 18, 2022, at her home in East Prairie.
She was born May 7, 1967, at Charleston, MO, to the late Roy Higgins and Martha Rogers Higgins. She had lived in East Prairie her entire life and was a 1986 of East Prairie High School.  She had worked in retail,...
Thomas Ann Lett Britt
Dec 17, 2022
Thomas Ann Lett Britt, died at her home in Charleston, Missouri, December 17, 2022.
Thomas Ann Lett was born at home in Bertrand, Missouri, on January 27, 1930. She was the 9th child of Thomas Lafayette Lett and Minnie Evelyn Golightly Lett. Ann was educated at Bertrand and Charleston Schools. Following her graduation from Charleston High School...
Dasmone Doniek’E Fletcher Jr.
Dec 15, 2022
Dasmone Doniek'e Fletcher, Jr., age 7Â weeks, died Thursday, December 15, 2022, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff.
Dasmone Doniek'e Flethcer Jr, (DJ), son of Dasmone Fletcher, Sr. and Alisha Ivy and even though DJ was only with us for a short time, he brought much joy and was a happy baby.
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Pamela Miller Garner
Dec 14, 2022
Pamela Christine Garner, age 62, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, December 14, 2022, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.
She was born September 25, 1960, at Sikeston, MO, to the Flora Christine Lambert Miller who survives of Sikeston and the late Melvin Marrell Miller. She had lived in Sikeston most of her life and...
Mr. Walter Lee Lewis
Dec 12, 2022
Walter Lee Lewis, the son of William Lee and Chaney Henry Gill, was born on December 25, 1932, in Okolona, Mississippi. This small rural community is where he would spend his early childhood years.
An attack on Walter's father would end in an act of self-defense which forced the family to flee Mississippi to Southeast Missouri. In...
Willie Earl Brewer Jr.
Dec 11, 2022
Junior Brewer
Willie Earl Brewer, Jr., age 59, a resident of Sikeston, formerly of Charleston, died Sunday, December 11, 2022, at Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau.
He was born August 22, 1963, at Charleston, MO to the late Willie Earl Brewer and Mary Viola Jones Brewer, he had lived in Sikeston a number of years...
Ray Manker
Dec 10, 2022
Raymond Allen Manker, age 76, of St. Louis, formerly of Charleston, died Saturday, December 10, 2022, at Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis.
He was born September 5, 1946, in the Snows Corner Community of Mississippi County, MO, to the late James M. and Helen V. Toombs Manker.  He grew up in Charleston where he attended St....

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