Stories from Thursday, December 29, 2022

Leadership in Southeast Missouri saw changes and celebrations in August. The month began with Donna Hillis winning the local election to become the new Butler County clerk. “The citizens of our county have spoken and I am so proud to be their county clerk. Rest assured that I will do a good job and continue Tonyi (Deffendall’s) wonderful office,” Hillis said at the time...

David Peery, 62, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff.

Anna Belle Duncan, 103, formerly of Harviell, Missouri, passed away Dec. 27, 2022, at St. Joe Manor in Bonne Terre, Missouri. Anna was born on Nov. 1, 1919, to the late Wilbur and Kate Steed in Willard, Missouri. She married the love of her life M.E. Duncan on Nov. 5, 1936, in Bradford, Arkansas. He preceded her in death on March 4, 2001...