Stories from Thursday, February 7, 2019

DEXTER, Mo. — Yvonne Farmer Wood Taylor, 84, of Wappapello, Mo passed away Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at her home in Wappapello. Mrs. Taylor was born August 27, 1934 in Dexter, Mo to the late Charles Roscoe & Lucy Ruggles Farmer. She was of Baptist faith and attended New Life Baptist Church in Wappapello...

The Pike Creek Reorganized Common Sewer District will hold a regular board meeting at 8 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 12 at the district office at 4878 Hwy. PP, Poplar Bluff. The agenda of this meeting may include a vote to close part of this meeting puruant to Sections 610.021 and/or 610.022...

MALDEN, Mo. — Etta Alma Blades, 105, of Malden, died Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019 at Malden Nursing and Rehab. Visitation will be from 6 - 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 8 at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The funeral will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9 at Bradshaw Chapel with Rev. Mark Thrasher officiating...

There are a number of notable topics I need to mention in this article. Some are local activities you may want to mark on your calendars. Even though we are past the deadline date, I want to remind hunters who have tree stands on public ground such as U.S. ...

Things are winding down quickly for hunters across the region, and there’s not a lot of options remaining this winter. For those after snow geese during the conservation order, which opened today, I can definitively say there are a lot of snow geese around (see photo above, taken Monday morning in eastern Butler County). Hopefully, they’ll spread out a bit because that single group was at least a half mile wide...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Clarence (Eli) Burpo of Poplar Bluff departed this life for another on Feb. 6, 2019 with his sister at his side. He was born in Glenndale, Az., Sept. 26, 1955, the son of the late Betty Jo Burpo and Ray P. Burpo. He was a laborer before becoming disabled. He loved to go hunting and fishing and he enjoyed working on whatever he could and helping others...

ELLSINORE, Mo. — Wilma Earnstine Miller, 90, of Ellsinore, died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Visitation will be at 6 p.m., Friday, Feb. 8 at the McSpadden Funeral Home in Ellsinore. The funeral will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 9 in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Tom Wilder officiating. Burial will be in the Joplin-New Hope Cemetery...

NEELYVILLE, Mo. — Louis ‘Sonny’ Nimon, 85, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., passed away February 6, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Nimon was born May 5, 1933 in Caruthersville, Mo to the late Rubin and Nancy (Lewis) Nimon. His landscaping job was like a hobby to him. He enjoyed gardening and flea marketing. He enjoyed horse racing and always wanted to be a jockey...

DONIPHAN, Mo. — Lawrence ‘Peck’ Mathis, 87 of Doniphan, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Visitation will be at 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 9 at West Point U.P.C. in Doniphan with the funeral service following at 1 p.m.. Online condolences made at www.fowlerandsonsfuneralhome.com...

I grew up in Milford, Connecticut on the coast of the Long Island Sound. My father was a chemist and had a really demanding job filled with much stress. I did not see him much. He worked all week and on the weekends he played guitar in a local band that had gigs every weekend. ...

DEXTER, Mo. — Alberta ‘Bertie’ Pullum, 81, of Dexter, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. Visitation will be at 11 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 10 until time of services at 2 p.m. at the Watkins & Sons Funeral Home in Dexter with Chad Cook of Ridgely, Tenn. officiating...

**UPDATE 4:45 p.m.** VIDEO INCLUDED Members of the National Weather Service are expected to be in Southeast Missouri on Friday after a squall line produced severe winds and damage across at least three region counties.

Lace up your running shoes and mark Saturday, March 2 on the calendar to take part in the End MS 5K. For former Poplar Bluff cross country runner and Delta High School coach Bailey Davidson, Multiple Sclerosis hits close to home. Davidson’s step-brother, Zach Brown, was diagnosed with MS about three years ago...

City firefighters responded at 12:30 a.m. Thursday to assist police officers at 639 S. Westwood Blvd. According to the report, officers asked firefighters to used the department’s thermal-imaging camera to assist in locating a subject who had fled into the woods...

FREE ACCESS Strong winds damaged a home and business in Doniphan around 8:15 a.m. this morning, officials say. Ripley County Emergency Management Agency Director Brian Byrd estimates a path of damage stretching about one mile. Most of the damage was on Highway 142 East, about one-half mile from Doniphan...

Wayne County experienced wide spread flash flooding Thursday morning as heavy rains began falling after midnight. “It was pretty well wide spread, Piedmont, Greenville, basically all over the county” in low-lying areas, said Wayne County Sheriff Dean Finch...