Obituaries

Earl W. Dunning, son of the late Albert W. Dunning and Etheal P. Austin Dunning, was born on July 10, 1925 in Frisbee, Missouri, and departed this life on June 22, 2020 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at the age of 94 years....

Thomas Leroy Russell, son of the late Donald Russell and Hazel Hughes Anderson, was born on December 15, 1935 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and departed this life on June 22, 2020 at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the age of 84 years...

Ronnie Edwards, son of the late Leo Edwards and Theresa Larsen Edwards, was born on November 29, 1943 in Dexter, Missouri, and departed this life on June 24, 2020 at his residence in Bloomfield, Missouri, at the age of 76 years. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Friday, June 26, 2020. Interment followed in the Dexter Cemetery...

Paul Dewey Bevins, was born on July 15, 1940 in Paintsville, Kentucky, and departed this life on June 23, 2020 at his residence in Dexter Missouri at the age of 79 years. A memorial service was conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Interment followed in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield, with full military honors...

Alvin T. Gibson, son of the late Tom Gibson and Virgie Mae Lanning LaRue, was born on April 13, 1948 in Grayridge, Missouri, and departed this life on June 23, 2020 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri at the age of 72 years. A private memorial service will be planned for a later date...

Leonard Dean Frymire, 63 of Dexter, Mo., passed away Wednesday, June 17, 2020, at home surrounded by his family. Leonard was born Nov. 20, 1956, to Dempsey Noah and Flora Mae (Blocker) Frymire at Turkey Creek, Mo.  His joys were playing music with his son and close friends and cooking with his daughter. Leonard loved to fish and being outdoors clearing land and enjoying nature. ...

Shirley Louise Nichols McGowan 80 of Bernie, passed away June 28 at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie on Wednesday Morning July 1, 2020, 9:30 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. Graveside Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at Bernie Cemetery. Mathis Funeral Home in charge of all arrangements...

Robert Lee Young Jr. also known to his friends and family as Bob, Bobby, Dad and “GrandBob” died peacefully on June 27, 2020 surrounded by his family at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Facility in Dexter at the age of 72. Bob was born on September 12, 1947 in Poplar Bluff.  He was the youngest of three children born to Robert Lee Young Sr. and Welta Marie Adams Young.  He is survived by two sisters Margaret Cox & husband Dennis and Linda Quinn & husband Jerry all of  Dexter, Missouri...

Don Alan King, son of the late William Gale King and Hazel Leonna Phelps King, was born on August 22, 1942 in Bell City, Missouri and departed this life on April 9, 2020 at his residence in Dexter at the age of 77 years. Friends may call at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Saturday, June 27, 2020 from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. A memorial service will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Chapel on Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 1 p.m. A graveside service will follow at Walker Cemetery in Bloomfield...

Donna Kay Whitley, daughter of the late Robert Miller and Patricia Sullivan Hart, was born on October 7, 1964 in Hayti, Missouri, and departed this life on June 19, 2020 at Southeast Health of Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the age of 56 years. Visitation was held on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 from noon until 2 p.m. ...

William Darrell Grimm, son of Shirley Ann Webb DeVore and the late William Eugene Grimm, was born on November 13, 1967 in Wurzberg, Germany and departed this life on June 17, 2020 in Laredo, Texas at the age of 52 years. Graveside services will be conducted at Webb Cemetery in Dexter, Missouri on Wednesday, July 1, 2020...

William “Bill” Ray Francis Sr., son of the late Joe Francis and Mable Joseph Francis, was born on March 31, 1938 in Pontiac, Michigan, and departed this life on June 17, 2020 at Bethesda Dilworth Skilled Nursing in St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of 82 years...

Maxine Simmons, daughter of the late Ed and Pearle Albertson Goode was born on January 26, 1919 in Big Ridge, Missouri and passed away on June 19, 2020 in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 101. Private funeral services will be conducted on Thursday, June 25, 2020 at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, Missouri. Interment will follow in the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Sikeston, Missouri...

Peggy Louise Harris, of Florence, Alabama, formerly of Bloomfield, Missouri, was born February 10, 1930 in St. Louis, Missouri, and departed this life on Wednesday June 17, 2020 at North Alabama Medical Center at the age of 90 years, after a brief illness...

Robert Edward Kennedy, 50 of Bernie, passed away June 19, 2020 at Cape Girardeau, Mo.  Visitation will be held on Tuesday night, June 23, 2020 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m.at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie. Funeral services were conducted on Wednesday June 24, 2020 at 11 a.m. at Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie.  Interment followed in Missouri State Veterans Cemetery. Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie is in charge of all arrangements...

Sheena Lenett Donaldson Hooper 36, passed away June 14, 2020 at her home in Parma.  Visitation was Monday June 22, 2020 from 11 a.m. until noon  in the Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie.  Funeral services were conducted in the Mathis Funeral Chapel at noon. Interment followed in Macedonia Cemetery of Malden.  Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie is in charge of all arrangements...

William Darrell Grimm, son of Shirley Ann Webb DeVore and the late William Eugene Grimm, was born on November 13, 1967 in Wurzberg, Germany and departed this life on June 17, 2020 in Laredo, Texas at the age of 52 years. Graveside services will be conducted at Webb Cemetery in Dexter, Missouri on Wednesday, July 1, 2020...

Estell Cook 80, of Malden passed away June 17, 2020 at Gideon Care Center in Gideon, Missouri.  Visitation was conducted Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie from 10 a.m. until noon.   Funeral Services were conducted at noon at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie, Missouri.  Interment followed in Bernie Cemetery. Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie is in charge of arrangements...

Helen Margaret Chasteen, daughter of the late William Fields and Lydia Akers Fields, was born on December 5, 1927 in Malden, Missouri, and departed this life on June 17, 2020 at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 92 years...

Sheena Lenett Donaldson Hooper 36, passed away June 14, 2020 at her home in Parma.  Visitation will be Monday June 22, 2020 from 11 a.m. until noon  in the Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie.  Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Chapel at noon  Interment in Macedonia Cemetery of Malden.  Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie in charge of all arrangements...

Kenneth Walker, 75 of Holts Summit, Missouri passed away on June 8, 2020.  A visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home, Saturday, June 20, 2020 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m..  Full Military Honors will be conducted at 1 p.m. at the Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie...

Treniss Jewel “T. J.” Evans, son of the late Thurman Evans and Lola Randolph Evans, was born on July 31, 1932 in Advance, Missouri, and departed this life on June 12, 2020 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, at the age of 87 years...

Velma Louise Moore Underwood Pierce, daughter of the late Perry Lee Moore and Edna Bell Young Moore, was born on October 23, 1932 in Birds Corner, Missouri, and departed this life on June 11, 2020 at her residence in Bloomfield, Missouri, at the age of 87 years...

Dorothy Louise Sayre of Dexter, daughter of the late Luther and May Cates, was born in Bloomfield,on October 15, 1925, and passed away at her home in Dexter, on June 8, 2020, at the age of 94 years. She lived in the Dexter area most of her life. Dorothy enjoyed being a housewife, cooking, playing the piano and studying her Bible...

Debbie Ann Spence, daughter of the late Frank Kirkpatrick and Doris Chandler Kirkpatrick, was born on January 25, 1957 in Elgin, Illinois, and departed this life on June 9, 2020 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, at the age of 63 years...

Rev. William Edward Dunivan Jr., 70, of Puxico, Mo., died Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, in Poplar Bluff, Mo.   Rev. Dunivan was born Nov. 11, 1949 in Cape Girardeau, Mo., son of the late William Edward Sr. and Shirley June Dunivan.  ...

Michael Steven Lambert, son of the late Nolean Beardsley and Marjorie Meritt McGuire, was born on July 26, 1951 in Sikeston and departed this life on June 11, 2020 at his residence in Dexter, at the age of 68 years. Mr. Lambert was a veteran of the United States Army, serving in the Vietnam war. He worked in construction as a concrete finisher. Steve loved the outdoors; he was an avid duck hunter and enjoyed camping at the river with his family and friends...

Lorene Parks, daughter of the late Pendy Parks and Alice McPherson Parks, was born on October 3, 1927 in Dudley, Missouri, and departed this life on June 15, 2020 at her residence in Dudley, Missouri at the age of 92 years. Friends may call at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 from 1 p.m. ...

Rev. William Edward Dunivan Jr., 70, of Puxico, Mo., died Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, in Poplar Bluff, Mo.   Rev. Dunivan was born Nov. 11, 1949 in Cape Girardeau, Mo., son of the late William Edward Sr. and Shirley June Dunivan.  ...

Kenneth Walker, 75 of Holts Summit, Missouri passed away on June 8, 2020. A visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home, Saturday, June 20, 2020 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Full Military Honors will be conducted at 1 p.m. at the Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie...

Debbie Ann Spence, daughter of the late Frank Kirkpatrick and Doris Chandler Kirkpatrick, was born on January 25, 1957 in Elgin, Illinois, and departed this life on June 9, 2020 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, at the age of 63 years...

Jimmie Allen Fry Jr., son of Jimmie Allen Fry Sr. of Bloomfield and the late Doris Jackson Fry, was born on June 12, 1968 in Rochelle, Illinois and departed this life on June 6, 2020 at the Southeast Health of Stoddard County ER at the age of 52. Visitation was held at the Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, Missouri on Monday, June 8, 2020...

Anna Belle Hawk, daughter of the late Konley Hawk and Oma Owens Hawk, was born on December 16, 1935 in Greenbriar, Missouri and departed this life on June 4, 2020 at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Missouri, after a short battel with COVID-19, at the age of 84 years...

Margaret E. Clay, daughter of the late Robert L. Phegley and Vena M. Ligon Phegley, was born on February 27, 1921 in Thornton, Arkansas, and departed this life on May 31, 2020 at Southeast Health of Stoddard County in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 99 years...

On Sunday, June 7, 2020, Therma Launius, loving mother and grandmother, passed away peacefully at the age of 86 at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter. Therma was born on August 14, 1934 in Stoddard County, Missouri to Uyless and Virgie Harget. On August 24, 1972, she married John Launius to whom she was wed for 36 years...

Thomas Eugene Bischof, 69, of Bloomfield, Missouri passed away June 4th, 2020 at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Tom was born to Charles and Cecilia Bischof on November 3rd, 1950 in St Louis, Missouri. He graduated from St. Louis University High School in 1969, received a BA degree from University Missouri at Columbia in 1972, a BS degree from Saint Louis University in 1974, and a JD degree from University of Missouri - Kansas City...

Charles Michael Harmon, son of the late Bob Harmon and Lula Owens Harmon was born on July 16, 1959 in Kennett and departed this life on May 28, 2020 at the St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis at the age of 60. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Interment followed in the Sycamore Cemetery...

Shellee Jo Cowgur, daughter of Jo Ann Hitt Cowgur and the late William Cowgur, was born on December 15, 1979 in Cape Girardeau and departed this life on June 1, 2020 at Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau, at the age of 40 years. Friends may call at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Saturday, June 6, 2020 from noon to 2 p.m. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Chapel on Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 2 p.m. Interment will follow at a later date in the North Antioch Cemetery...

Jerry Don Hill 63 of Powe, passed on June 1, 2020 at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Mo.  Visitation will be held Thursday, June 4, 2020 from 5 p.m. Till 8 p.m. in Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie.  Funeral services will be held Friday morning, June 5, 2020 at 11 a.m. Interment will follow in Browns Chapel Cemetery, Broseley, Mo...

Orval Wayne Patterson, age 74, died Saturday, May 30, 2020, at his home in Dexter. Born March 31, 1946, at Essex, to the late Orval Brice Patterson and Mildred Warthen Patterson, he had lived in the Dexter area most of his life and had been employed as a diesel mechanic and a truck driver and in many other skilled trades throughout his life...

Betty Jean Ivester, daughter of the late Arvel F. Williamson and Francis Fay Rankin Williamson was born on January 29, 1936 and departed this life on May 28, 2020 at the Southeast Health of Cape Girardeau at the age of 84. A memorial service was conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Interment followed in the Armstead Dowdy Cemetery...

Rubey June Kastner, daughter of the late Joel Richardson and Nellie Goodman Richardson, was born on April 22, 1931 in Gideon and departed this life on May 26, 2020 at Winchester Nursing Center in Bernie, at the age of 89 years. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Saturday, May 30, 2020. Interment followed in the Dexter Cemetery...

Edward Taylor, son of the late Tommy Taylor and Doney Page Taylor, was born on August 2, 1937 in Alabama and departed this life on May 23, 2020, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri at the age of 82 years. Friends may call at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Thursday, May 28 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Chapel on Friday, May 29, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. Interment will follow in the Dexter Cemetery...

Robbie Leroy Pennebaker III, son of the late Robbie Leroy Pennebaker Jr. and Sharon Cain Lawson, was born on May 27, 1977, in Farmington and departed this life on May 18, 2020 at Southeast Health of Cape Girardeau at the age of 42 years. A memorial service will be planned for a later date...

Pansy Leona Zimmerman 94 of Bernie, died May 19, 2020 at her home.  Visitation was Friday, May 22, 2020 in Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m.  Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. in Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie.  Interment followed in Bernie Cemetery.  ...

Josephine Koch Hueckel, daughter of the late Joseph Koch and Edith Berry Koch, was born on December 23, 1928, in Dudley, Missouri and departed this life on May 18, 2020 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, at the age of 91 years...

Robert “Bob” Mayer of Dexter passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 19, 2020 after a short battle with Covid-19. He was born on October 15, 1931 in East St. Louis, Illinois to Norman and Irene Mayer. He married his high school, sweetheart, Ruth Esther Worley on January 12, 1951, and found happiness again when he married his second wife, Betty Sue Garner on February 18, 2012. ...

Lois Louisene Clodfelter, daughter of the late Calvin Hayes Day and Nancy Ellen Eaker Day, was born on January 25, 1926, in Malden and departed this life on May 14, 2020, at Mulberry Manor in Dexter at the age of 94 years. Mrs. Clodfelter was a head teller at State Bank of Bernie, and First Community Bank of Bernie, for over 40 years. ...

Bernice McKillip of Cauthersville, daughter of the late Erick and Antonia Uishener Lindblad, was born in Mitchell, South Dakota on May 30, 1921, and passed away at the Cypress Point Nursing Home in Dexter on May 12, 2020, at the age of 98 years, 11 months and 12 days...

John William “Bill” Wheeler, son of the late Lawrence Wheeler and Mary White Wheeler, was born on March 25, 1927, in Centerville, Iowa and departed this life on May 17, 2020 at his residence in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 93 years. Mr. Wheeler lived in Green City, Iowa until he was eight years of age, when his father, a Methodist minister, moved the family to St. Louis. He attended Roosevelt High School and played in the High School Band...