Stories from Monday, January 23, 2023

The Poplar Bluff Municipal Library is hosting a medical anthropologist with a groundbreaking women’s healthcare book “In Conversation with Kanwal Haq” is a presentation at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, in the Main Branch campus. Haq, who grew up in Poplar Bluff, will introduce attendees to her book “Taking Care of You: The Empowered Woman’s Guide to Better Health.”...

The Poplar Bluff Parks and Recreation Board will meet 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23, in the Hendrickson Park Annex at 1500 N. 13th St. The agenda includes reports on the golf course operations and maintenance, park financials and programs. The board will adjourn with a closed session...

Bonnie Lee Pyles, 70, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away Friday, Jan 20., 2023, in Poplar Bluff. She was born July 6, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri to the late William and Edna (Kirkhart) Sherman. Bonnie was a long time resident of Butler County. She was of the Christian faith. Bonnie enjoyed playing bingo, thrift store shopping, collecting owls and butterflies. She was a member of the Eagles...

Shirley Ann Shearrer, 87, of Piedmont, Missouri, passed away Friday, Jan. 20, 2023 at the Clark’s Mountain Nursing Center in Piedmont. She was born Feb. 24, 1935 in Cherry Grove, Patterson, Missouri, the daughter of Fenton White and Mabel (Garren) White...

Poplar Bluff will have a brush with winter weather, but most snow will probably fall northward. Sean Poulos of the National Weather Service Paducah said Monday the Poplar Bluff area could receive 1-2 inches of snowfall, but surface temperatures should melt it on contact...

Southern Bank now operates 65 facilities across Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Arkansas with the completion Friday of another merger. The combined entity will hold assets of approximately $4.4 billion, including loans, net, of $3.4 billion, and deposits of $3.8 billion, officials said in a press release. Completion of the merger was said in September to make it the eighth-largest bank headquartered in Missouri...

Wanda L. Jackson, 94, of Harrison, Arkansas, passed away peacefully in her sleep Jan. 20, 2023. Born Wanda Lou Wilkerson on April 11, 1928, outside of Fisk, Missouri, Wanda spent most of her life in Poplar Bluff, Missouri before moving to Harrison, Arkansas in 2005. After graduation from Fisk High School in 1947, she went to work at a shoe factory as a bookkeeper. In 1948 she married Harold Jackson...

Lawrence Paul Chatman, 76, of Plato, Missouri, died at his residence Jan. 13, 2023.

Ripley County’s new detention center walls are up, doors and windows are in, and builders say they will next put a roof on the structure. At a Jan. 11 meeting of the Ripley County Commission, Braidy Heisserer of Sides Construction, said crews at the detention center are...

Glenda Gayle King Wilcox, 67, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away on Jan. 17, 2023 at The Manor in Poplar Bluff. Glenda was born on Aug. 8, 1955 to Richard and Jo Ella Parnell in Philadelphia. Glenda liked to play cards, read, color pictures on her phone, and she really loved her old westerns...

SIKESTON, Mo. — Police are investigating the double homicide of a married couple early Sunday, Jan. 22, in Sikeston, and seeking the public's assistance for any information in the matter. "We are currently about 12 hours into a double homicide investigation that occurred around 3 a.m. in the 800 block of Southwest Street," Sikeston Department of Public Safety said in a social media post at 3 p.m...

Kenny Ray Bounds, 61, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away on Jan. 23, 2023 at Mark Twain Care Center in Poplar Bluff. Kenny was born on June 5, 1961 to Floyd and Nettie Francis (Batson) Hill Kenny used to enjoy fishing and hunting. Kenny is survived by sister, Carol Bounds; son, Brandon Ray Bounds; and one grandson...

Poplar Bluff officials are investigating a Monday morning fire at 1222 Cole Ave., where it is suspected that squatters using a wood stove started the blaze. The state fire marshal has also been called into investigate a separate fire that was reported shortly after 6 a.m. Sunday at 1808 Kentucky Ave. The fire marshal believes the origin there was a mattress under the carport...

Butler County Sheriff’s Department William Thomas Greenwood, 74, of Poplar Bluff, was booked at the Butler County jail at 12:47 p.m. Jan. 20, for sexual misconduct involving a child under 15 years of age. A cash only bond was set at $25,000. _ Alicia Marie Luna, 29, of Van Buren, was booked at the Butler County Jail at 2:02 p.m. Jan. 20, for unlawful possession of a firearm...

Poplar Bluff Police Department A car was towed at 8:43 a.m. Jan. 20, from a traffic stop in the 1000 block of South Broadway when it was determined the vehicle was not insured. The driver was released at the scene and a summons for no insurance was mailed to them...