Obituaries

Wilma Williamson (02/05/10)
Wilma Williamson, daughter of the late Harvey Dunn and Areola Baughn Dunn, was born on Aug. 5, 1923 in Illmo and died at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 at the age of 86. Mrs. Williamson was a homemaker and a resident of Essex...

Geraldine "Jerry" Jarboe (02/04/10)
Geraldine "Jerry" Jarboe, daughter of the late William B. and Ione Woolem Chamberlain, was born in Parma on June 10, 1913, and died at the Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter on Feb. 1, 2010, at the age of 96. She had lived in Dexter most of her life. She was a member of the First General Baptist Church in Dexter. She had worked as a beauty operator and had retired as a seamstress from Elder Manufacturing...

Elsie Abigail Patterson (02/03/10)
Elsie Abigail Patterson, daughter of the late Charles and Maudie Moss Cowell, was born in Pope County Arkansas, on Jan. 30, 1914, and died at the Missouri Southern Health Care in Dexter on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010, at the age of 96. She had lived in Arkansas before moving to Missouri in 1937. She lived in New Madrid, Bell City, Vanduser, and Dexter. She was a member of the First Church of God in Dexter, was a homemaker and a excellent quilter...

Kennette Ann Meredith (02/03/10)
Kennette Ann Meredith, daughter of the late Kenneth Dean Willmore and Donniemay Price Willmore, was born on Aug. 5, 1959, in St. Louis and died on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 at the at the age of 50. Kennette was a former truck driver for J. B. Hunt Trucking, had her CDL license, an avid supporter of our U.S. Military, and a resident of Dexter. She had a GED and took a few courses at John A. Logan College...

Diana Joyce Rhody (02/02/10)
Diana Joyce Rhody, daughter of Charles R. Rhody of Campbell and the late Hazel Marie McMinn Rhody was born on Dec. 2, 1964 at Kennett, and died on Jan. 31, 2010 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff at the age of 45. Besides her father, Charles R. Rhody, other survivors include her step-mother, Novie Rhody of Campbell; one brother, Dewayne Rhody of Broseley; and one sister, Debra Jo Cannady of Qulin...

Doris Smith Fiser (02/02/10)
Doris Smith Fiser, 87, mother of Phyllis Danekas, died on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 at Candlelight Lodge Assisted Living Residence, in Columbia. She is survived by Bill, her husband of 65 years; her daughter, Phyllis, of Columbia; two grandsons; and four great-granddaughters...

Joyce M. Brents (02/02/10)
Joyce M. Brents, daughter of the late Virgie Stevens Johnson and Marshall Johnson, was born on March 26, 1936, in Dexter and died on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010, in the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Facility in Dexter at the age of 73. Mrs. Brents was retired from Brown Shoe Company and was a former resident of rural Essex currently living in Dexter. She was a member of Taylor General Baptist Church...

Virginia Pauline Hart (02/02/10)
Virginia Pauline Hart, daughter of the late Jess Bailey and Lena Clark Bailey, was born on Aug. 21, 1933, near Dexter and died in the Saint Francis Medical Center at Cape Girardeau on Jan. 30, 2010 at the age of 76. Mrs. Hart was a member of the Broadwater Church Of The Brethren at Frisco, a former employee of the United States Postal Service and a resident of Dexter...

Joyce Brents (01/30/10)
Joyce Brents, a resident of Essex, Missouri died on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 73 years. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter...

John D. Conder (01/29/10)
John D. Conder, 49, of Plattsmouth, Neb., was born May 17, 1960 at St. Charles, Ill., the son of Bill and Loretta Derhem Conder and died Jan. 25, 2010, in Buffalo County, Neb., from injuries sustained in a trucking accident. John was a truck driver...

Kenneth Albert Lang (01/29/10)
Kenneth Albert Lang of Dexter, formerly of Malden, was born April 19, 1941, in St. Louis and died Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, at Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter at the age of 68. On Aug. 14, 1965, he was united in marriage in St. Louis to Lynn Harris. He was the owner-operator of Lang & Associated in Malden. He was a former member of the United Methodist Church in Malden and at the time of his death, a member of the First United Methodist Church in Dexter...

Mary Emojean Tucker (01/29/10)
Mary Emojean Tucker, daughter of the late William Ray and Edna Loretta McCunn Bacon, was born Sept. 2, 1923, and died on January 25, 2010, at Brighton Gardens of Denver Nursing Home at the age of 86. She had lived in Bloomfield for many years. She had moved to Florida for a brief time and then to Denver, Colo., three and a half years ago. She was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Bloomfield and was a past member of the Eastern Star...

John D. Conder (01/27/10)
John D. Conder, 49, of Plattsmouth, Neb., was born May 17, 1960 at St. Charles, Ill., the son of Bill and Loretta Derhem Conder, and died Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, in Buffalo County, Neb., from injuries sustained in a trucking accident. John was a truck driver...

Betty Summers (01/27/10)
Betty Summers, daughter of the late Roy Hyslop and Ethel Wright Hyslop was born on July 22, 1931 near Idalia and died at Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter on Jan. 26, 2010 at the age of 78. Mrs. Summers was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church in Dexter, had done babysitting in Dexter for many years, was a former clerk at Hamra's Department Store and at Knight's Department formerly in downtown Dexter and was a resident of Dexter...

Geneva Nelson (01/26/10)
Geneva Nelson, daughter of the late Ernest and Minnie Cantrell Faulkner, was born March 28, 1920, and died at the Golden Living Center in Bloomfield on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. On No. 2, 1938, she was married to George Wheeler Nelson. Mr. Nelson preceded her in death in 1988...

Steve Hagy (01/26/10)
Steve Hagy, the son of Carrol LeRoy and Jeannette Allen Hagy, was born in St. Louis on Jan. 30, 1961, and died at the Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter on Jan. 24, 2010, at the age of 48. Mr. Hagy had lived in the Sullivan area for many years and moved to Dudley one year ago. He was of the Baptist faith...

Dale Tucker (01/26/10)
Dale Tucker, son of the late Thomas Tucker and Louise Stephens Tucker was born on April 6, 1946 in Bernie and died at his residence in Bernie on Jan. 24, 2010 at the age of 63. Mr. Tucker was a former employee with Moline Mable in St. Charles, Ill., was of the Baptist faith, and a resident of Bernie...

George T. Hampton (01/26/10)
George T. Hampton, the son of the late David Melton and Mary Magdeline Hamlett Hampton, was born in Steele on Dec. 18, 1924, and died at his home in Dexter on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010, at the age of 85. Mr. Hampton had lived in the Steele and Sikeston areas before moving to Dexter in 1953. He had farmed for many years and enjoyed fishing. He was a member of the Dexter Lion's Club and the V.F.W. post...

Marlene Elizabeth Owens (01/22/10)

Lois Lorene Prosser (01/22/10)
Lois Lorene Prosser, 89, of Delta, died Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau after a long and courageous battle with cancer. She was born Sept. 20, 1920, near Himmel, daughter of the late Leslie and Edith Mann Medlin. On Jan. 24, 1942, in Ecorse, Mich., she was united in marriage to Glen Prosser, and he preceded her in death on May 18, 1998...

Bobby Woods (01/22/10)
Bobby Woods, son of the late Zannie and Lula Pemberton Woods, was born in Wardell on April 5, 1941, and died at his home near Dexter on Jan. 21, 2010, at the age of 68. He had lived in the Clarkton and Dexter areas all of his life. He was of the Pentecostal religion. He was the owner of Woods Sanitation for many years...

Mary John Middleton (01/19/10)
Mary John Middleton, daughter of the late Orville Fairchild and Hattie Pry Fairchild, was born on July 11, 1928, at Dexter and died in the Crowley Ridge Center in Dexter on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010 at the age of 81. She grew up in Dexter and was a Navy wife during the late 1940s and 1950s. ...

Ruby Pauline "Polly" Duckworth (01/19/10)
Ruby Pauline "Polly" Duckworth, died on Jauary 18, 2010 in her residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.

Wilma Pat Beacham (01/19/10)
Wilma Pat Beacham, daughter of the late Ira "Foss" Moore and Anna Lucille Johnson Moore, was born at Senath on Jan. 22, 1920 and died at Puxico Nursing and Rehabition on Jan. 14, 2010, at the age of 89. Mrs. Beacham was a homemaker, a member of the Northside Baptist Church and a resident of Bernie...

Sylvia Madeline Caldwell (01/19/10)
Sylvia Madeline Caldwell, daughter of the late John Henry Hyten and Lilly Mae Trotter Hyten was born on Jan. 8, 1923 at Lavalle and died in the Crowley Ridge Care Center at Dexter on Jan. 16, 2010 at the age of 87. Mrs. Caldwell was a member of the Duck Creek Baptist Church near Puxico, a home-maker and resident of rural Dexter...