Stories from Friday, January 20, 2012

Ruby "Keeter" Gordon, 93, of Risco, died Jan. 12, 2012, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born May 31, 1918, in Center Ridge, Ark., to the late Edd and Dola Hogue Holloway, she was a homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include one son, Shelby Gordon of Sikeston' one sister, Myrtle L. ...

Mary Ann Chapman Keenan, 49, of Bell City, the daughter of Jerry and Mary Jane Pierce Chapman. was born September 17, 1962, in Redfield, Iowa, and died Jan-uary 17, 2012, at her home. Mary had been a licesened insurance agent. She was a member of the Perkins Baptist Church...

Anita Cullum, daughter of the late Herschel T. "Jack" Farmer and Dolly O. Wilson Farmer, was born on Dec. 21, 1942, at Holcomb, Mo., and departed this life on January 18, 2012, at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo., at the age of 69...

Katherine Irene Tucker Boone, daughter of the late Elmer Tucker and Birdie Mable Lightell Tucker, was born on Jan. 8, 1914, in Diehlstadt, Mo., and died on Jan. 18, 2012, at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter at the age of 98. Katherine was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene in Dexter, a retired seamstress at Elder Manufacturing and a resident of Dexter...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. -- Mollie Whitehead's two free throws with just over two minutes remaining in the game between Dexter and Portageville brought out one of the loudest cheers from the fans attending Thursday's game at Portageville. The outburst wasn't because the Dexter sophomore had knocked down two crucial free throws in a tight game. Just the opposite...

A Dexter woman is facing charges today following a November 2011 incident at a local nursing home. Joyce Johnson, 59 of Campbell, is charged with the Class A felony of elderly abuse in the first degree and the Class B felony of arson in the first degree...

Dexter firefighters responded to a fire off County Road 607 Thursday night around 9 p.m. and managed to keep the fire from spreading from a building that housed an electrical business to a nearby home. The business building was totally destroyed. Kiger Electric, owned by Jerry Kiger, was fully engulfed in flames when firefighers arrived. The 60' X 40' building burned to the ground, but the house located less than 20 feet away was not damaged...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - Three people are behind bars today following an investigation into children living in an unsafe home. Patricia Coffee of Bloomfield and Michael Coffee, with a Clarkton, Mo., address listed on the warrant, were arrested and charged with three counts of the Class C felony of endangering the welfare of a child-first degree. ...

Former Dexter resident David Lee was hired as quarterback coach for the NFL's Buffalo Bills under Head Coach Chan Gailey recently. Lee grew up in Dexter, the son of former Coach Bill and Jean Lee. He was in Dexter recently to attend the funeral of a friend, Bob Foushee. At the time, Lee was looking for a coaching position after serving as offensive coordinator under Houston Nutt at the University of Mississippi...