Obituaries
McMikle Funeral Home Obituaries
In Memory of Our Dear Loved Ones
Kimberly Kay Buttrey
Aug 9, 2026
Kimberly Kay Brown Buttrey, age 63, passed away at her home near Wyatt, Sunday, August 9, 2026, surrounded by her family.
Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston
Malinda Lou Hacker
Aug 7, 2026
Malinda Lou Cochran Hacker, age 77, known to many as Mindy, passed away in the early morning hours of Friday, August 7, 2026, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, MO surrounded by family.
Mindy was born on December 26, 1949, in Greensburg, KS, to the late Twylla and Kenneth Cochran. She graduated in 1968 from Greensburg High School. She was...
Jack Doyle Ezzell
Aug 6, 2026
Jack Doyle Ezzell, age 93, of Cape Girardeau, MO, died Thursday, August 6, 2026, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau.
Born September 23, 1932, in Belgreen, AL, to the late Charles V. Ezzell and Effie Pearl Mitchell Ezzell, he moved with his parents to Scott County, MO, in 1945 and was a graduate of Diehlstadt High School. After high school,...
Mary Kathryn Rolwing
Aug 4, 2026
Mary Kathryn Rolwing, 90, of Charleston, MO, passed away peacefully Tuesday, August 4, 2026, at the Bertrand Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Bertrand, Missouri.
She was born Mary Kathryn Thomason on September 28, 1935, in the Bridges Community, south of Charleston, Missouri, to the late Robert Loral Thomason and Mary Edith Johnson Thomason. She was the youngest of six children.
On August...
Mary Jo Rolwing
Jul 31, 2026
Mary Jo Walker Rolwing, age 93, of rural Charleston, died Friday, July 31, 2026, at the Delta South Skilled Nursing Center in Sikeston, MO.
Born January 4, 1933, in the Lusk Chapel Community north of Charleston, MO, to the late Thomas Glen Walker and Pauline Virginia Jeffries Walker, Mary Jo was a graduate of Diehlstadt High School. She had lived most...
Kenneth Jason Hunsperger
Jul 30, 2026
Jason Hunsperger
Kenneth Jason Hunsperger, age 53, of Charleston, MO, died Thursday, July 30, 2026, at Mercy Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, MO.
Born June 12, 1973, to Connie Maxine Hunsperger Farrell, he had attended Charleston Schools and lived in Charleston most of his life. He was employed as a welder with Heartland Cookers at Sikeston
Surviving is his wife, Shar’ron Simpson Hunsperger;...
Joyce Hise Gilmore
Jul 28, 2026
Joyce Hise Gilmore, age 89, formerly of rural Charleston, MO, died Tuesday, July 28, 2026, at Columbia, MO.
Born May 31, 1937, at Mississippi County, MO, to the late Clifton Herbert Hise and Jewell Sybill Walker Hise, she was a graduate of Anniston High School. Joyce went on to further her education at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau and...
Amanda Brooke Kolwyck
Jul 27, 2026
Amanda Brooke Martinez Kolwyck, age 34, of Sikeston, MO, died Monday, July 27, 2026, at Mercy Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, MO.
Born April 24, 1992, at Cape Girardeau, MO, to the Scott A. Martinez and Catina Lee, she had lived in Sikeston most of her life.
On November 17, 2007, she married Brandon Lee Kolwyck, who survives.
Also surviving are her children,...
William Russell "Bill" Harris
Jul 24, 2026
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William “Bill” Russell Harris Sr., age 83, of Wyatt, entered his heavenly home on Friday, July 24, 2026, to join his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Born February 9, 1943, in Wyatt, MO, to the late Ivory Mack Harris and Flora Mae Rogers Harris, Bill lived in Mississippi County all his life. He grew up with his six siblings. Bill was...
Sue “Sue Roo” O’Connor
Jul 14, 2026
Sue “Sue Roo” O’Connor, 69, of East Prairie, MO, passed away peacefully on July 14, 2026, surrounded by her family and friends.
She was born in Charleston, MO, on January 23, 1957, to the late J.D. O’Connor and Dixie Lee Clark Counts and was also raised by her Step- Father, Kenny Counts. She was a lifelong resident of East Prairie, where...
Carolyn Elizabeth Peters
Jul 10, 2026
Carolyn Elizabeth Peters, passed away peacefully on Friday, July 10, 2026, on her 77th birthday, surrounded by her children.
She was born Carolyn Elizabeth Stricker on July 10, 1949, at St. Mary's Hospital in Cairo, IL, to the late Lawrence S. and Maude Ellen (Williams) Stricker. She was the youngest of their three children and their only daughter. Carolyn grew up...
Malinda Diane Williams
Jul 8, 2026
Malinda Diane Williams, age 67, of Matthews, MO, died Wednesday, July 8, 2026, at Cotton Point Living Center in Matthews, MO.
Born October 31, 1958, at Kansas City, MO, to the late William “Bill” Simpson and Mary Alice Ozment, she had lived in Mississippi County in her younger years and later in Sikeston and New Madrid County. She attended the Potters...
Chadd Harvey Weakley
Jul 7, 2026
Chadd Weakley
Chadd Harvey Weakley, age 51, formerly of Bertrand, MO, passed away Tuesday, July 7, 2026, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center.
He was born November 18, 1974, at Sikeston, MO, to the late Harvey Walter Weakley and Yvonne Carrol Brown Weakley.
He graduated from Charleston Senior High School in 1993 and then served in the US Army in field artillery for...
Charles Eugene Turner
Jul 7, 2026
Charles Eugene Turner
Charles Eugene Turner, 82, of Charleston, Missouri, passed away surrounded by the love of his family. He was born on July 29, 1943, in Charleston, Missouri, to the late Roma and Ruth Turner.
On April 20, 1968, Charlie married the love of his life, Dorothy Fay Harwell, in Charleston, Missouri. Together they built a loving home and shared many...
Lawrence Woodrow Graham
Jul 7, 2026
Lawrence Woodrow Graham, age 73, of formerly of Matthews, MO, died Tuesday, July 7, 2026, at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, MO.
Born February 1, 1953, at Lilbourn, MO, to the late Thurman Walter Graham and Minnie Louella Houchin Graham, he had lived in the Sikeston area most of his life and was a former member of the Sikeston...
Carl Edsel Hardin
2026
Carl Edsel Hardin, age 87, of Miner, MO, died Friday, July 3, 2026, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center in Sikeston, MO.
He was born May 31, 1939, in Lepanto, AR, to the late Ada Blevens Milligan and Marvin Milligan. As a young man they moved from Nelsonville, AR to Wardell, MO where at the age of 18 he worked as a...
Paul Eugene Green
Jun 29, 2026
Paul Eugene Green (Big Daddy), 77, passed away on Monday, June 29, 2026, in Cape Girardeau, MO, surrounded by loved ones.
Paul was born in Greenfield, Ohio on June 1, 1949, to Edward and Nancy Collette Green. However, he lived most of his childhood in Aurora, IN. He attended Aurora High School where he was an exemplary, multi-sport student athlete, lettered...
Rev. Ronald W. Shrum
2026
Ronald Wilburn Shrum, was born July 28, 1938, in St. Louis, MO, to the late Wilbern Clarence Shrum and Jane Elizabeth Brown Shrum, and departed this life June 29, 2026, in Sikeston, Mo.
Ronald preached his first sermon at age 15, and his last sermon at age 83. He graduated high school in 1959 and that same year was ordained to...
Jamie Small
Jun 25, 2026
James Brackston “Jamie” Small, III, age 68, of Charleston, MO., died Thursday, June 25, 2026, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO surrounded by his wife, Brenda, daughter, Catherine, son, JB, and his daughter-in-law, Sydney. Then to be woken up by his mother, father, brother and special pups Cali and Lola Bell in heaven with our Lord and Savior Jesus...
Bobbie Gene (Jean) Robinson
Jun 22, 2026
In Loving Memory of Mrs. Bobbie Jean Robinson
Mrs. Bobbie Jean Robinson was born on December 31, 1954, in Benton, Mississippi, in Yazoo County, to the late Jessie and Christine Moton.
She was raised in East St. Louis, Illinois, and later spent many years living in Los Angeles, California. For more than a decade, she made Charleston, Missouri, her home, where she...

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