Obituaries
David Ray Cain, 58, of Thebes, died at 12:58 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
Mr. Cain was born on Dec. 16, 1961, in Cairo, the son of James David and Barbara Joyce Beasley Cain.
He was a salvage yard employee.
He was preceded in death by his mother....
Carolyn J. Stokes, 83, of St. Joseph, died at 12:10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, at the Southgate Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Metropolis.
She was born on May 24, 1937, in Pulaski, the daughter of Benjamin and Daisy McDaniel Dulaney.
She was a member of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in...
Merl Everet Penrod, 95, of Anna, died Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, at Integrity Healthcare in Anna.
He was born on Feb. 11, 1925, in Wolf Lake, the son of Everet and Grace Emiline Ballance Penrod.
He married Dorothy Marie Lynn on May 26, 1945, in Jonesboro.
Mr. Penrod is survived by his wife,...
A strong headed woman has left this world and now rests in heaven. Jewell Ellean Lindsey Hicks, of Jonesboro, died on Oct. 16, 2020, at the young age of 69. She was actually 90, but loved telling everyone she was 15 to 20 years younger even to the end.
She was born in Pulaski, the daughter of ...
Georgianna Tucker, born Georgianna Lannom on January second in the year nineteen and forty-seven, a woman who never met a person she didn’t like, passed on to the meadow where the best people gather on October fourteenth in the year two thousand and twenty at eleven hours and two minutes in the...
Linda Kay Riggs Ryan, 64, of Dongola, died at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
She was born on Nov. 23, 1955, in Cairo, the daughter of William Henry and Elsie Geraldine Schierbaum Riggs.
She married Jim Ford on June 3, 1972. He preceded her in death on Feb...
Mary Louise “Nanny” Kinder, 68, of Anna, died Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, at her home.
She was born on Aug. 25, 1952, in Charleston, Mo., the daughter of Martin George and Hattie Lenore Moore Hedge.
She married Jackie Lee Brimm on March 14, 1968, in Anna. He preceded her in death on May 10, 1976....
Dorris E. Penrod, 93, of Dongola, died at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, at the Illinois Veterans Home in Anna.
He was born on Aug. 26, 1927, in Dongola, the son of Ellis E. and Iva B. Johnson Penrod.
He married Mary Elizabeth Hill on April 16, 1948. She preceded him in death on Nov. 27,...
Ronald “Lane” Parmly, 50, of Jonesboro, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, at Manor Court in Carbondale.
He was born on Jan. 28, 1970, in Cape Girardeau, the son of Ronald E. and Brenda Tellor Parmly.
Mr. Parmly is survived by his parents, Ron and Brenda Parmly; four sons, Jimmy and wife Nicole, Jacob...
Ronald Lee Charles, 66, died at 1:40 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
He was born on Feb. 10, 1954, at the family farm in “UBdam Holler” in Union County, the son of James E. and Bonnetta M. Goleaner Charles, one of five boys and two sisters.
He was married on...
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