Stories from Monday, July 29, 2019

PIEDMONT, Mo. — Viola E. Guess, 91, formerly of Piedmont, died Saturday, July 27, 2019 in Old Monroe, Mo. Graveside services were held Monday, July 29 at the Masonic Cemetery in Piedmont. Services were under the direction of Morrison Funeral Chapel...

Area residents like Bob Stagner of Poplar Bluff, Al and Betty Banken of Dexter and Earnsteen Pigg of Doniphan are truly AGELESS. The residents in this magazine recognize the importance of staying active, giving back to the community and holding onto the things that make you happy...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — Albert ‘Jean’ Holland, 83 of Sullivan, Mo., died Saturday, July 27, 2019 at Life Care Center in Sullivan. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Thursday, August 1 at the Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield. The funeral will be at noon Friday, August 2 at the funeral home. Burial will be in Pleasant Grove Cemetery near Bell City, Mo...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Remy Isaiah Dale Watson 1 1/2 months, of Poplar Bluff, died July 25, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Visitation will be at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday July 31 at Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff. Graveside service will be at 12:30 p.m. at the Marble Hill Cemetery in Butler County with Pastor Debbie Cassinger officiating.

More than 152 million prescription, opioid pain pills were supplied to pharmacies in Southeast Missouri counties from 2006 through 2012, according to federal Drug Enforcement Administration data. The data was obtained by and made available online by The Washington Post...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Larry Lee Kenser, 68, of Poplar Bluff, died July 27, 2019 at his residence. Visitation will from noon - 1 p.m. Thursday, August 1 at Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff. A graveside service will follow at 2 p.m. in the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield, Mo...

David Hathaway makes frequent trips to Poplar Bluff from his Fruitland, Mo. home for regular dental appointments. The former Poplar Bluff resident and Army veteran often makes use of his time in town by visiting the City Cemetery to check on the grave of his beloved late wife, Linda Mae...

An 18-year-old Piedmont resident was killed in a one-vehicle crash at 2 a.m. Saturday on County Road 468, five miles north of Piedmont, in Reynolds County. According to the report, Tyler L. McAlister was operating a 2003 Chevrolet pickup southbound when it ran off the right side of the road and overturned, striking a tree...

PIEDMONT, Mo. — Tyler Lee McAlister, 18, of Piedmont, died July 27, 2019. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 31 at Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont. The funeral will follow at 1 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Pastor Alan Conner officiating. Burial will be in Mt. View Cemetery in Des Arc, Mo...

QULIN, Mo. — Virginia ‘Gini’ Johnson, 73, of Poplar Bluff, died Saturday, July 27, 2019 at Cedar Gate Healthcare in Poplar Bluff. Visitation will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 31 at White-Sanders Funeral Home in Qulin. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, August 1 in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Gene Riddle officiating.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Samuel Maurice Coleman, 73, of Van Buren, Mo, died at 12:45 a.m. Monday, July 29, 2019 at Mark Twain Caring Center in Poplar Bluff. Moore Funeral Service of Poplar Bluff is in charge of arrangements.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — James Anthony Santoro, 84, of Poplar Bluff, died at 5:47 p.m. Saturday, July 27, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Visitation will be from 4-6 p.m. Friday, August 2 in the chapel at Moore Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff...

CONWAY, Ark. — Richard Raidean Lassiter, 78, of Conway, Ark., died Saturday, July 13, 2019 at his residence. At his request, no service will be held. Memorial donations may be made to a children’s charity of your choice or the Arkansas Baptist Children’s Home in Monticello, Ark...

Black River Medical Center will no longer offer emergency room or in-patient hospital services following the completion of a merger in August with Saint Francis Healthcare System. The merger will also include a name change. The emergency room is set to close at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, according to a press release from Saint Francis. Inpatient services are scheduled to stop but the time for that had not been confirmed as of press time...

City and state officials came together Monday afternoon to recognize the contributions of retiring Poplar Bluff Parks and Recreation Department Director Clark Allen. Allen has a passion for his community and has led with a sense of humility and vision, speakers told a large crowd that gathered at the Black River Coliseum for the event...

GREENVILLE — After hearing emotional victim-impact testimony Monday afternoon from the family of a Doniphan man who was killed in 2017, a judge sentenced the man’s brother-in-law to 20 years in prison for his shooting death. Benjamin Michael Ruhl appeared before Circuit Judge Kelly Parker for sentencing after having pleaded guilty in May to the Class A felony of second-degree murder in connection to the death of Matthew D. Schrimsher...

DONIPHAN — Six Ripley County residents made their first appearance in court Monday morning after recently being charged in connection with the death of another man whose burned body recently was found.

“Southern Missouri is home to the most diverse Agriculture found anywhere in the country.” It is a line I have repeated more times than I can count. It is what I say when educating other elected officials serving in the U.S. Congress who might think of us as flyover country, or when I talk to Washington bureaucrats who have never stepped foot in Missouri let alone on a farm. ...

I have been an avid reader of the Daily American Republic my whole adult life. I worked there many years. The best news that I have received in the new American Republic are the long-time experienced, wonderfully talented writers, Barbara Horton, Donna Farley, Michelle Friedrich, Paul Davis and other old time writers who very much keep up with the local happenings...

Uh, yes, there’s a difference between the people that live in the city and the people that live out in the county. People that live out in the county seems to take care of their own ditches, burn their own tree limbs and take care of their own place. ...