Stories from Tuesday, June 20, 2023

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Gary Colvin Scales, was born Nov. 26, 1943, the son of Harold Colvin Scales and Kathleen O’Kelley Scales. He was the second of two children. The family resided in Portageville, Missouri, a small town in southeast Missouri. Gary received his baccalaureate degree from Millsaps College. Shortly thereafter he volunteered for military service in the Navy where he served on the aircraft carrier, USS Independence, during the Vietnam War...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Lucinda Simmons “Cindy” Kirchhoff, 71, formerly of Charleston, Missouri, died June 17, 2023. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until service time at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 22 at Campus Lutheran Church in Columbia. Burial will be at a later date in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Charleston...

SIKESTON — Visitation for Della Mae Phillips, 83, who died March 9, 2023, will be from 10 a.m. until time for a memorial service at noon Saturday, June 24 at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston with Jason Schrieber, pastor of Living Waters Church in Sikeston, officiating...

SCOTT CITY, Mo. — Nancy Pauline Michelsen, daughter of the late Evertt Paul and Agnes (Rowlett) Montgomery was born on Oct. 8, 1940, in Sikeston, Missouri, and departed her life on Monday, June 19, 2023 at the age of 82 years. She was a former co-owner of Michelsen Grocery in Morley, Missouri, and bank teller, but what she enjoyed most of all was being a mother. Nancy was a member of the First Baptist Church in Oran, Missouri, former resident of Oran, but currently living in Scott City...

MOREHOUSE, Mo. — Gladys Bolan Reynolds, 82, died June 20, 2023, at the Daybreak Nursing Center in Miner, Missouri.