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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...
Virginia A. Robertson
Jul 19, 2011
Virginia Ann Abbott Robertson, 80, of Poplar Bluff and wife of the late Dr. W.D. Robertson died Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Virginia was born November 19, 1930 in Malvern, Ark., and grew up in Pine Bluff, Ark. She graduated from Pine Bluff High School in 1948, and attended Texas State College for Women...
Ruby Jean Vinson
Jul 15, 2011
Ruby Jean (Phelps) Vinson, 70, of Poplar Bluff died Friday July 15, 2011 at her residence. Mrs. Vinson was born September 6, 1940 in Butler County, where she lived all her life. She was a homemaker and a member of the Memorial Baptist Church and enjoyed spending time with her family, collecting angels, painting and attending auctions. On February...
Robert J. Camden
Jul 15, 2011
Robert Jerry Camden, Sr., 86, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, died Friday, July 15, 2011 at his residence. Mr. Camden was born Feb. 19, 1924 in Ellington, Mo. and graduated from Ellington High School in 1941. He served his country during WWII in the U.S. Army Air Corps where he was trained as a gunner on the B-24 and flew...
John David Jones
Jul 14, 2011
John David Jones, 87, of Poplar Bluff died Thursday, July 14, 2011 at Oakdale Care Center in Poplar Bluff. Mr. Jones was born Nov. 9, 1923 in Piggott, Ark. He served 30 years with the Butler County Civil Defense Department, and had retired from Poplar Bluff Auto Parts as a machinist. Mr. Jones was a former volunteer Butler County...
Clara L. Swofford
Jul 9, 2011
Sister Clara L. Swofford, 76, of the Stringtown area of Butler County died Saturday, July 9, 2011 at The Cedargate in Poplar Bluff. Sister Clara was born Jan. 5, 1935 in Poplar Bluff. She was of the Pentecostal faith and attended Kerns Chapel in Stringtown. Sister Clara was a volunteer for Legacy Hospice, and had retired from Florsheim Shoe...
Richard W. Bowie
Jul 9, 2011
Richard Witt Bowie, 52, of Dudley, Mo., died Saturday, July 9, 2011 in Stoddard County, Mo. from injuries sustained when the airplane he was piloting crashed. Mr. Bowie was born Nov. 30, 1958 in Dexter, Mo. He had retired from Union Pacific Railroad, and was a board member for Poplar Bluff Municipal Airport. Mr. Bowie enjoyed spending time with...
Alta Kearbey Campbell
Jul 8, 2011
Alta Kearbey Campbell, 99, of Poplar Bluff died Friday, July 8, 2011 at Cedargate Care Center in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Campbell was born Jan. 22, 1912 in the Cane Creek community of Butler County. As long as health permitted she was a faithful member of Cane Creek Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Campbell was a homemaker, and was a member...
Christine Wisong
Jul 8, 2011
Christine Wisong, 79, of Poplar Bluff died Friday, July 8, 2011 at her residence. Mrs. Wisong was born Aug. 18, 1931 in Bono, Ark. She was a homemaker, and had previously worked at a plastic ball factory in Texas. Mrs. Wisong enjoyed spending time with her family, watching western movies and NASCAR racing, putting puzzles together and working crossword...
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