Stories from Friday, November 3, 2023

SIKESTON – The yearly Sikeston Community Thanksgiving Dinner is back this year with take-out plates only and is asking for donations. There will be no deliveries available. Those who want a Thanksgiving meal must come by and pick up their to-go plates...

People in Sikeston on average are paying $3.39 a gallon for gas when you can get it for $2.99 a gallon at the Matthews exit, Charleston, Cape Girardeau, Dexter and several others. Just note: the Matthews exit is just six miles south on Interstate 55.

Do you like to bowl? I have rarely ever bowled, yet as a little girl, I was in the bowling alley a lot. My dad bowled in a men’s league, and both of my parents bowled together in a mixed league. In addition to this, my dad would hit the lanes on his own, as he prepared to go professional. ...

CANALOU, Mo. — Billie Harlow Minton, 2 months and 14 days old, died Oct. 23, 2023, in Sikeston, Missouri. Visitation will be from noon until services at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023, at DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville with Rev. Eugene Poole officiating...

HERCULANEUM, Mo. — William Lee Wood, 87, died Oct. 31, 2023, at Scenic Nursing Center in Herculaneum, Missouri. Visitation is from 11 a.m. until service time at 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5, at DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville, with Rev. David Dittman officiating...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Martha Ann Muller, 89, died Nov. 1, 2023, at Southeast Missouri Hopsital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.  Visitation is from 11 a.m. until service time at 1 p.m. Monday Nov. 6, 2023 at First Church of God with Rev. David Dittman officiating. ...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Mildred M. Hartwick Harrington, 86, died Nov. 3, 2023, at the Hunter Acres Nursing Center. Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until funeral hour at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

HOUSTON, Texas — Terrance Romel Jones, 44, formerly of Charleston, Missouri, died Nov. 1, 2023, at the HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest in Houston. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.