Lois Pearl Corbin Barnes (05/02/08)
Lois Pearl Corbin Barnes, daughter of the late Worley Corbin and Pearl Brown Corbin was born on Feb. 20, 1928, in Stoddard County and died at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau on Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at the age of 80. She had attended the Bernie Nazarene Church, was a former school teacher, had retired from the Brown Shoe Company of Bernie after 22 years and was a resident of Bernie...

Hulon Haskell Morse (05/02/08)
Hulon Haskell Morse, Sr., 81, of Hope, Ark., died on Wednesday April 30, 2008, at his home. He was born on March 16, 1927, in Emerson, Ark., to Troy Nelson and Odus Evelyn McDonald Morse. He was a third generation master carpenter. He was a Baptist and a Navy veteran of World War II. ...

Holly Haga Swearingen (04/30/08)
Holly Haga Swearingen, daughter of Richard Haga of Dexter and the late Mary Drescher, was born October 27, 1954 in Brookfield and died at her residence in Dexter on April 29, 2008 at the age of 53. She was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene where she drove the church bus, ran the sound booth and volunteered at church camp, was a former owner/operator of a daycare and was a resident of Dexter...

Fred Anderson, Jr. (04/30/08)
Fred Anderson Jr., son of Fred Sr. and the late Lucy Ellen Leonard Anderson, was born February 20, 1946, and died Sunday, April 27, 2008 at Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter at the age of 62. Mr. Anderson was a resident of Malden. He was united in marriage to Vivian Sue Parker on March 18, 1967...

Elizabeth Ann Wood (04/30/08)
Elizabeth Ann Wood, daughter of the late Earl Wood and Hilda Cleo Malin Wood, was born on July 7, 1944 at Flint, Mich. and died at her residence in Dexter on April 27, 2008 at the age of 63. She was a member of the Lighthouse Christian Center in Dexter, had attended Bethany General Baptist Church near Bernie, was a former L.P.N. in Dexter, Blooomfield and Bernie and was a resident of Dexter...

Margaret Carrie Waters (04/30/08)
Margaret Carrie Waters, daughter of the late Marion and Margaret Grace Cartwright Lattimore, was born in Kansas City on March 14, 1938 and died at her residence in Parma on April 26, 2008 at the age of 70. Mrs. Waters was an employee of Beverly Nursing Center for over twenty years and had attended Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Grayridge...

Aaron Rogers (04/29/08)
Aaron Rogers, son of James Rogers and Shirley Mills Scherer, was born at Poplar Bluff on May 3, 1971, and died Sunday, April 27, 2008, at the age of 36 as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident. Mr. Rogers was a 1989 graduate of Bloomfield High School. ...

Archie Sanders Walpole (04/29/08)
Archie Sanders Walpole, son of the late Talmadge Dewitt Walpole and Docia Elizabeth Cook Walpole, was born on Oct. 4, 1920, in Kennett and died at the Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter on Saturday, April 26, 2008, at the age of 87. Mr. Walpole was a former meat cutter at various grocery stores in Stoddard County, served on the Dexter Police Department as chief of police for two years, a member of Sweet Prospect General Baptist Church in Dexter, and a resident of Dexter...

Dorothy Marie Cobb (04/29/08)
Dorothy Marie Cobb, daughter of the late Elmer Roy and Thelma Beatrice Craig Horton, was born in Powe on March 4, 1926, and died at Southern Missouri Healthcare in Dexter on Friday, April 25, 2008, at the age of 82. Mrs. Cobb had lived in Essex most of her life except for spending 1977-1997 in Doniphan. ...

Fred Anderson Jr. (04/29/08)
Fred Anderson Jr., son of Fred Sr. and the late Lucy Ellen Leonard Anderson, was born February 20, 1946, and died Sunday, April 27, 2008 at Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter at the age of 62. Mr. Anderson was a resident of Malden. He was united in marriage to Vivian Sue Parker on March 18, 1967...

Lucy Kennedy (04/26/08)
Lucy Viola Kennedy, daughter of Robert E. Smallwood and Nancy Elizabeth Barnum Smallwood, was born on Feb. 19, 1910, at Higden, Ark., and died at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Don and Louise Kennedy at Dexter on Friday, April 25, 2008, at the age of 98...

Russell Hedrick (04/26/08)
Russell Alton Hedrick, son of the late Raymond Alton Hedrick and Mary Faith Hedrick, was born on July 26, 1926 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Surrounded by his beloved family, he departed this life peacefully on April 25, 2008 at the age of 81 years...

Archie Walpole (04/26/08)
Archie Walpole, a resident of Dexter, died Saturday, April 26, 2008, at the Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter at the age of 87. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.

Dorothy Marie Cobb (04/26/08)
Dorothy Marie Cobb, of Essex, Mo., was born on March 4, 1926 and passed away at Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter on April 25, 2008 at the age of 82. Arrangements are incomplete at this time.

William G. Beck (04/26/08)
William G. Beck, a resident of Dudley, was born April 27, 1926, and died Monday, April 21, 2008, at his residence. He had served in the Navy and was a truck driver. On Feb. 14, 1995, he was united in marriage to Addie. Survivors include one son, Billy Beck of Carson City, Nev.; and one daughter, Mary Hall...

Loyd Leon Cox (04/25/08)
Lloyd Leon Cox, son of the late Lloyd Franklin and Ruth Bennett Cox, was born at Bloomfield on Sept. 28, 1934, and died at the Golden Living Center in Bloomfield on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at the age of 73. Leon was a lifelong resident of Bloomfield and was a member of Hill's General Baptist Church near Bloomfield. He had formerly worked for Bennett Wholesale and was an Honorary Stoddard County Reserve Deputy Sheriff...

Esther Hibler (04/25/08)
Esther Hibler, daughter of the late John William Bates and Sarah Elizabeth Mayberry Bates, was born on Aug. 8, 1917, in Poynor and died at the Golden Living Center in Dexter on Friday, April 23, 2008, at the age of 90. Mrs. Hibler was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Dexter, a former waitress at Hickory Log Restaurant in Dexter for 23 years, and a resident of Dexter...

Edgar Lee Nichols (04/24/08)
Edgar Lee Nichols, son of the late William Edgar and Eula Mae Crane Nichols, was born at Minden, La., on April 6, 1920, and died at the John J. Pershing V.A. Medical Center in Poplar Bluff on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at the age of 88. Mr. Nichols had been a resident of Bloomfield since 1999, and he was a retired Pentecostal minister, a veteran of the U.S. ...

Loyd Leon Cox (04/24/08)
Loyd Leon Cox, a resident of Bloomfield, died on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at Golden Living Center in Bloomfield. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield.