Stories from Tuesday, October 24, 2023

MURPHYSBORO, Ill. — A jury found a Sikeston, Missouri, guilty of first-degree murder Monday, Oct. 23 in Jackson County, Illinois. Tyren Jawan Johnson, 25, of Sikeston was found guilty of the 2019 shooting death of another man in Carbondale, Illinois, according to Jackson County State Attorney Joseph A. Cervantez...

SIKESTON — Sikeston leaders were honored during the Sikeston Regional Chamber’s annual awards banquet. The event, which was Thursday, Oct. 19 at the Sikeston Municipal Airport for the third consecutive year, drew a big crowd as emerging leaders and those honored for a lifetime of work were recognized...

LILBOURN, Mo — A Lilbourn man was arraigned Monday, Oct. 23 on drug charges. William Everett Fields, 47, entered a not guilty plea Monday before Judge Joshua Underwood on charges of first degree trafficking drugs or attempt and tampering with physical evidence in a felony prosecution. He is being held in the Mississippi County Jail with bond set at $50,000 cash or surety...

BERTRAND, Mo. — Dennis Ray Quertermous Sr., age 92, of Bertrand died Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023, at the Missouri State Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Dennis was born Oct. 15, 1931, in the Texas Bend Community of Mississippi County, Missouri, to the late Clarence Alma Quertermous and Thelma Pryor Smith Quertermous. ...

WICKLIFFE, Ky. — Lovey May Crawford Hacker, 87, died Oct. 22, 2023, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Private services will be held at a later date with McMikle Funeral Home of Charleston, Missouri, in charge of arrangements...

SIKESTON — Ethel Berniece Shaw Harris, 90, died Oct. 23, 2023, at Southeast Health in Dexter, Missouri. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston, Missouri.

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Delois “Bubby” Brady, age 68, died Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, at his home in Charleston. He was born June 15, 1955, at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, to the late Paul Junior Brady and Josephine Nadine McEntire Brady. Bubby had lived in Charleston most of his life and had attended the First Assembly of God Church...

SIKESTON — Doris Ann Heavener, age 78, died Oct. 22, 2023, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born April 21, 1945, in Tennessee, to the late L.V. Hopper and Lois Flatt-Hopper. She had been a cook for B.J.’s Travel Center before retiring. Survivors include: two daughters, Rhonda (Phillip) Hardin and Brenda McCormick of Sikeston; one son, Barney Ervin of Sikeston; two sisters, Joyce Sissom and Barbara Flanigan; four brothers, William Hopper, Andy Hopper, James Hopper and Randy Hopper; 10 grandchildren, Raschell Hodgkiss, D.J. ...

SIKESTON — Marie Harper, age 98 and a longtime resident of Sikeston, passed away peacefully on Oct. 23, 2023, at La Bonne Maison. Marie was born on Oct. 19, 1925, to Gertie and Herman Bulger in Butler County, Missouri.

MONROE COUNTY, Miss. — Rita Mae Gross Crump, 40, passed away on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023, in Monroe County. Born on Aug. 22, 1982, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, she was a daughter to David “Steve” Gross and Petra J. Garner. She lived in Monroe County for several years and she worked at the Aberdeen, Mississippi, Marina...

DELTA, Mo. — Curtis Paul Plunk, 54, of Delta, Missouri, passed away Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, in St. Joseph, Missouri. Paul was born Sept. 19, 1969, in Sikeston, Missouri, to Samuel Sprague and Brenda Curtis Sprague. Paul loved his family immensely and beyond measure. He worked hard to provide for his family and always wanted the best for each of them. He will be greatly missed and always loved. He loved the Lord and was a member of the Church of Christ...

SIKESTON — For the third consecutive year, Sikeston R-6 School District’s Transportation Department employees will organize their annual fall festival. Don Beck, R-6 transportation director, said the event is free and open to the public. “It is for everyone, not just Sikeston locals,” Beck said...