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Florence Marie Nichols
May 13, 2014
Florence Marie Nichols, 65, of Poplar Bluff, Mo, passed away Tuesday, May 13, 2014, at The Manor. Mrs. Nichols was born February 10, 1949 in Steelville, MO, to the late Bill and Wanda Cameron Clover. On September 7, 1991, she married Brian Nichols in Poplar Bluff. She worked at the Regional Center and the Workshop in Poplar Bluff. She...
Lewis Lee Hillis
May 12, 2014
Lewis Ross Hillis, 83, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., formerly of Cash, Ark., passed away Monday, May 12, 2014 at his residence. Mr. Hillis was born Jan. 11, 1931 in Little Texas, Ark. to the late Robert Henry and Mary Mathis Hillis. He was a member of Highland Drive Church of Christ in Poplar Bluff, and he was a retired...
Carrie Lee Brandon
May 11, 2014
Carrie Lee Brandon, 82, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Sunday, May 11, 2014 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Miss Brandon was born Aug. 2, 1931 in Poplar Bluff to the late Ernest Brandon and Stella Brooks. She was a member of Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Poplar Bluff, and had retired as a nurse for Doctors Regional...
Lloyd Lee Surber
May 10, 2014
Lloyd Lee Surber, 89, of Poplar Bluff passed away Saturday, May 10, 2014 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Surber was born May 24, 1924 in Rector AR to the late Ernest and Eura Mae Gooch Surber. He was a member of Neelyville United Methodist Church, and he was a retired farmer. Mr. Surber proudly served his country...
Raona Ra Miller Hentz Nilsson
May 10, 2014
Raona Hentz Nilsson, age 77, a church, school and community leader in Poplar Bluff, died Saturday, May 10, 2014 at her residence after battling cancer. A career educator, Mrs. Hentz Nilsson, known to her friends as ""Ra"" (pronounced Ray), taught home economics at Qulin High School for two and a half years after graduating from Southeast Missouri State University...
Josie Dean Young
May 5, 2014
Josie Dean Young, 75, of Poplar Bluff, MO passed away Monday, May 5, 2014 at The Cedargate Care Center in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Young was born March 6, 1939 in Malden, MO to the late Willie Edward and Ardona May Braddum Winberry. She was of the Protestant faith, and had retired as a nurse's aid. Mrs. Young was a...
Paul Edmund Hogg
May 5, 2014
Paul E. Hogg, 94, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., passed away Monday, May 5, 2014 at Oakdale Assisted Living Center in Poplar Bluff. Mr. Hogg was born May 14, 1919 in Poplar Bluff to the late John E. and Carrie Nance Hogg. He was a member of First Christian Church of Poplar Bluff and had retired as Butler County Collector...

Robert Alan Womack
May 3, 2014
Robert Alan Womack. 67, passed away on May 3, 2014 at his residence in Sparta, New Jersey. He was born February 2, 1947 in Paterson, NJ to the late Harlan Howard and Mae Harriett Dufffy Womack. They both preceded him in death. Mr. Womack worked in Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey, in the hospital laboratory. He is survived...
Thomas Melvin Mcgrew
May 2, 2014
Thomas Melvin McGrew, 82, of Poplar Bluff, Mo, passed away Friday, May 2, 2014, at John J. Pershing VA Hospital in Poplar Bluff. Mr. McGrew was born June 21, 1931 in Winona, Mo. On March 31, 1990 he married Geneva Bausch in St. Louis, MO, she survives of the home. Mr. McGrew was a Paratrooper with the United States...
Anna E. Moncier
May 2, 2014
Anna E. Moncier, 63, of Poplar Bluff, MO, passed away Friday, May 2, 2014, at Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, MO. Mrs. Moncier was born November 18, 1950, in St. Louis, to the late Robert Eugene and Nora Goude. On November 8, 1969, she and Amos Mahon Moncier were married in Poplar Bluff. He survives of the...

Nina M. Bybee
Apr 30, 2014
Nina M. Bybee, 91, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Thursday, April 30, 2014, at Westwood Hills Healthcare Center in Poplar Bluff, MO. Mrs. Bybee was born September 29, 1922 in McClure, IL, to the late Marshall and Mable Murphy Wheelis. In 1962, she and Carrol G. Bybee were married in Pittsburgh, PA. He preceded her in death in 1992....
James William Groves
Apr 28, 2014
James William Groves, Jr., 64, of Wappapello, MO, passed away Monday, April 28, 2014, at his residence. Mr. Groves was born February 26, 1950 in Poplar Bluff, MO. He was a member of Lakeland Assembly of God in Wappapello, and had worked as a heavy equipment operator with local unions 513 and 501. Mr. Groves proudly served his country...
Harold Eugene Robbins
Apr 28, 2014
Harold Eugene Robbins, 66, of Poplar Bluff, died Monday, April 28, 2014 at his residence. Mr. Robbins was born June 24, 1947 in Lansing Mich., and was a member of Grace Christian Fellowship Church in Poplar Bluff. Mr. Robbins was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, and worked as a transport specialist for John J. Pershing VA Medical...
Mary L. Dunson
Apr 25, 2014
Mary L. Dunson, 80, of Broseley, Missouri passed away Friday, April 25, 2014. Mary was born April 9, 1934, in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Finn Ewing and Roberta Clark. At a young age she professed her belief in Jesus at Pullman Temple, in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1952, she graduated from Dunbar High School in Little Rock. She then...
Gene Paul Rider
Apr 24, 2014
Gene Paul Rider, 45, of Wappapello, MO, passed away Thursday, April 24, 2014, at Poplar Bluff Regional Hospital. Gene was born September 28, 1968, in Cape Girardeau, MO to the late John and Barbara Wright Rider. On December 15, 1987, he married Varkay Longnecker in Midwest City, OK. She survives of the home. Gene was a towboat captain and...
Karen Johnson
Apr 24, 2014
Karen Jean Thornburgh Johnson, 69, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Thursday, April 24, 2014 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Johnson was born Feb. 24, 1945 in Zalma, Mo. She was a member of the First General Baptist Church, where she also served as director of the choir. Mrs. Johnson had retired as an office manager for a...
Betty Jo Allen
Apr 22, 2014
Betty Jo Allen, 85 of Poplar Bluff, MO, passed away Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at her residence. Mrs. Allen was born January 13, 1929, in Dexter, MO, to the late Charles Cleveland and Rhoda Jane Harper Wright. On December 28, 1954, she and Thomas Franklin Allen were married in Troy, MO. He preceded her in death on February 19,...
Norene Rutledge Duncan
Apr 15, 2014
Norene Rutledge Duncan, 88, of Poplar Bluff, passed away April 15, 2014, at her residence. Mrs. Duncan was born March 15, 1926, to the late Lyman and Creasy Wood Rutledge. On October 14, 1944, she married Paul Duncan in Poplar Bluff. He preceded her in death on March 11, 2001. Mrs. Duncan was a member of First Baptist Church,...
Harold Lee Fox
Apr 10, 2014
Harold Lee Fox, 72, of Poplar Bluff, formerly of Patterson, MO, passed away Thursday, April 10, 2014, at Poplar Bluff Regional Center. Mr. Fox was born March 19, 1942 in St. Louis to the late Herbert Fox and Enda Lutes Fox Freeman. He was a retired casino card dealer, and enjoyed spending time with his family, reading, and gambling....
Fredie Fred J. Talcott
Apr 3, 2014
Fredie ""Fred"" J. Talcott, 78, of Poplar Bluff, died Thursday, April 3, 2014 at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Mr. Talcott was born Oct. 12, 1935 in Poplar Bluff to the late Preston G. and Phebe J. Malone Talcott. He was of the Baptist faith, had retired as owner and operator of Talcott Sheetrock Co....