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Frederick Keith Richie
Aug 11, 2011
Frederick Keith Richie, 54, of Poplar Bluff died Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011 at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Mr. Richie was born June 25, 1957 in Poplar Bluff. He was a member of True Believers Missionary Baptist Church, and was employed as a conductor with Union Pacific Railroad. Mr. Richie enjoyed spending time with his family, especially with...
Earl Allan Schenewerk
Aug 10, 2011
Earl Allan Schenewerk, 68, of Poplar Bluff died Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Schenewerk was born Dec. 30, 1942 in Poplar Bluff. He was of the Baptist faith, and had retired from the U. S. Postal Service. Mr. Schenewerk enjoyed reading. Survivors include two sisters, Pat Lahr of Portland Oregon and Myrna Bernstein...
Marie Louise (Cancienne) Breeden
Aug 10, 2011
Marie Louise (Cancienne) Breeden, 91, of Poplar Bluff died Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 at Westwood Hills Healthcare Center in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Breeden was born Nov. 6, 1919 in Labadieville, La. After the death of her father, she and her mother moved to New Orleans where she worked at the naval station and met her future husband. After her...
Joyce Ellen (Kingery) Halter
Aug 8, 2011
Joyce Ellen Halter, 64, of Poplar Bluff died Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 at her residence. Mrs. Halter was born May 26, 1947 in Coon Island, Mo. She was a member of Westwood Baptist Church, and had retired from Doctor?s Hospital. Mrs. Halter enjoyed spending time and talking on the phone with her family and friends, going to Casinos, collecting...
William Coffey Parkey
Aug 8, 2011
Rev. William Coffey Parkey, 80, a well-known and widely respected Pentecostal minister of Poplar Bluff died Monday, Aug. 8, 2011 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Rev. Parkey was born on July 29, 1931 near Paoli, Okla. He graduated from Paoli High School in 1949, and received his bachelor?s degree in History and English from Oklahoma University in 1954....
Halowene Hallie Reynolds Dover
Aug 8, 2011
Halowene ""Hallie"" Dover, 97, of Fredericktown, Mo., formerly of Poplar Bluff died Monday, Aug. 8, 2011 at Claru Deville Nursing Home in Fredericktown. Mrs. Dover was born Jan. 2, 1914 in Marmaduke, Ark. She attended Highland Drive Church of Christ in Poplar Bluff, and was a homemaker. Mrs. Dover enjoyed quilting, and arts and crafts. On July 22, 1937,...
John Elmore Durham
Aug 6, 2011
John Elmore Durham, of Fredericktown, Missouri, formerly of Poplar Bluff passed away on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011 at the age of 92. Mr. Durham was born in rural Bollinger County, Mo. on Dec. 26, 1918 to parents, Albert and Alice (Harty) Durham. He attended school in Williamsville, Mo. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army, seeing...
Paul Everett Steele
Aug 3, 2011
Paul Everett Steele II, 69, of Poplar Bluff died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Steele was born July 10, 1942 in Poplar Bluff. He graduated from Western Military Academy, and attended Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Ark. Mr. Steele was of the Baptist faith, and had retired as a heavy equipment operator. He...
Vernice Dean Milligan
Aug 3, 2011
Vernice Dean Milligan, 70, of Poplar Bluff died Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011 at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Mr. Milligan was born Feb. 4, 1941 in Birmingham, Ala. He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and was employed as a truck driver with Gregory Logistics. Mr. Milligan enjoyed spending time with his boys, riding horses and...
Bettye L. (Raney) Sample
Aug 2, 2011
Betty L. Sample, 64, of Poplar Bluff died Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St., Louis. Mrs. Sample was born July 11, 1947 in Pocahontas, Ark. She was a member of Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, and was employed as an E.R. nurse at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Sample enjoyed spending...
Maurine (Hobby) Harris
Jul 29, 2011
Maurine Harris, 93, of Columbia, Mo., formerly of Poplar Bluff died Friday, July 29, 2011 at the Lenoir Woods retirement community n Columbia. Mrs. Harris was born Oct. 29, 1917 in Kewanee, Ill. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Poplar Bluff where she was a member of the Sue Messenger Circle and Tri-Mu Sunday School...
Virginia Marie (Schaefer) Jaco
Jul 27, 2011
Virginia Marie Jaco, 75, of Poplar Bluff died Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at her residence. Mrs. Jaco was born Oct. 2, 1935 in St. Louis, Mo. She was a member of Twin Springs Baptist Church, and was a homemaker. Mrs. Jaco previously had foster care and day care in her home. She enjoyed making dolls, sewing, embroidering and working...
Jack Wayne Morse
Jul 27, 2011
Jack Wayne Morse, 74, of Poplar Bluff died Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center after an illness of several months. Mr. Morse was born Dec. 1, 1936 in Chaonia, Mo. He was a member of New Home General Baptist Church, and was a retired farmer. Mr. Morse had also retired from the Missouri National Guard...
Geraldine O. (Snipes) Wilson
Jul 26, 2011
Geraldine O. Wilson, 100, of Hermitage, Tenn., formerly of Poplar Bluff died Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at McKendree Village in Hermitage. Mrs. Wilson was born Sept. 24, 1910 in Bloomfield, Mo. Moving to Poplar Bluff in 1936, where she lived for 60 years Mrs. Wilson was an active member of First United Methodist Church in Poplar Bluff, devoted to...
Edward Silas Malone
Jul 24, 2011
Edward Silas Malone, 85, entered into eternal life on Sunday, July 24, 2011 at the Cedargate Care Center in Poplar Bluff. Mr. Malone was born June 26, 1926 in Neelyville, Mo. He graduated from Lone Hill School, Southern Baptist College at Walnut Ridge, Ark., and Arkansas State University at Jonesboro. Mr. Malone was an active member of First Assembly...
Nellie Mae (Watson) Blankenship
Jul 23, 2011
Nellie Mae Blankenship, 84, of Poplar Bluff died Saturday, July 23, 2011 at the Cedargate Care Center in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Blankenship was born Dec. 17, 1926 in Fairdealing, Mo. She was a member of Agee Community Church, and a former member of the Poplar Bluff Garden Club. Mrs. Blankenship was a (non-fiction) writer and began writing as a...
Robert Louis Lawler
Jul 22, 2011
Robert L. Lawler, 81, of Poplar Bluff died Friday, July 22, 2011 at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Mr. Lawler was born Aug. 29, 1929 in St. Louis, Mo. He had retired as a computer designer for Insearch Corporation in Dallas, Tex. Mr. Lawler was a veteran of the U. S. Army and served in the Korean Conflict...
Marcia Charlene Johnson
Jul 22, 2011
Marcia Charlene Johnson, 79, of Poplar Bluff died Friday, July 22, 2011 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Mrs. Johnson was born March 17, 1932 in Poplar Bluff. She was a member of First Baptist Church, where she was also a member of the Bethany Sunday School Class, and was a member of the ZTA College Sorority....
Eugenia Marie Nichols
Jul 21, 2011
Eugenia Marie Nichols, 50, of Poplar Bluff died Thursday, July 21, 2011 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Miss Nichols was born Feb. 8, 1961 in La Crosse, Wisc. She was of the Catholic faith, and was disabled. Survivors include her mother, Evelyn Strong Nichols of Poplar Bluff; two sisters, Lillian Carter and husband Leslie of Thayer, Mo. and...
John L. Henson
Jul 20, 2011
John L. Henson, Jr., a native and long-time resident of Poplar Bluff, died Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at the home of his son in Defiance, Missouri. Mr. Henson was born May 7, 1925 in Poplar Bluff to the late John L. Henson, Sr. and Elizabeth Jane (Sparkman) Henson. He worked most of his life in the field of construction...
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