Stories from Monday, August 1, 2022

Carolyn Lee Smith, 67, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri passed away Thursday, July 28, 2022, at her home. Carolyn was born Sept. 25, 1954, to Junior and Freda (O’Dell) Warren in Poplar Bluff. She married Louie Smith Feb. 25, 1978, in Dexter, Missouri. Carolyn was raised in Clarkton, Missouri and was a proud member of the community. ...

Donald ‘Don’ Moffitt, 67, of Ellsinore, Missouri, passed away Friday, July 29, 2022, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. On Feb. 12, 1981, he married his high school sweetheart Debra Smith in Mineral Point, Missouri. Don was born Oct. 2, 1954, in Poplar Bluff to Burl and Wanda Moffitt. ...

Rosemary Sanders, 89, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, died Sunday, July 31, 2022, at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing, in Dexter, Missouri. Mrs. Sanders was born June 28, 1933, in Bloomfield, Missouri, daughter of the late Floyd and Elizabeth Colleen Phillips. She graduated from Bloomfield High School in 1955. She was a seamstress at Elders Manufacturing in Dexter for 18 years. In 1970, she opened an in-home daycare which she had until she retired in the early 1990s...

Jerry Lee Young, 82, of Farmington, Missouri, died Aug. 1, 2022, in St. Louis, Missouri. Graveside service is at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3 in Masonic Cemetery, Piedmont with full military honors. Burial service will follow. Online condolences can be made at www.rueggfuneralhomes.com...

The Pine Street bridge replacement project announced in 2019 is slated to officially kick off Aug. 15, according to a press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation Monday. The project, which is expected to cost approximately $3.5 million, will replace the 88-year-old westbound bridge over Black River on Business 60 (Pine Street)...

The introduction of a convenience store is negatively impacting the surrounding neighborhood, residents came forward Monday to tell Poplar Bluff City Council members. Approximately a half dozen people attended the regular council meeting to share concerns about Jay’s Corner Store, located in the 700 block of North Ninth Street...