Stories from Tuesday, October 15, 2019

DEXTER — Wilma Elizabeth Jarrell Quick, daughter of the late James Andrew Jackson Jarrell and Clara Frances Kleffer Jarrell, was born on Nov. 3, 1923, in Dexter and departed this life on Oct. 13, 2019, at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter at the age of 95 years...

City firefighters responded at 4:41 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, to a report of a possible structure fire on Vine Street. According to the report, firefighters found carpet being burned in the back yard of the 810 Vine St. residence occupied by John Murray...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL Mark K. Allen, 58, of Poplar Bluff was arrested at 10:20 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, failure to drive on the right half of the road and no seat belt. He was booked at the Butler County jail...

Fathers and daughters totaling approximately 1,000 danced like royalty Saturday at the 2019 Poplar Bluff Masonic Youth Father Daughter Ball. The Black River Coliseum was transformed into a scene from the Arabian nights for each princess and her father to enjoy a magical time together. ...

DONIPHAN — Ronald Wayne Duncan, 73, of Doniphan, died Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 20 at Good Hope Baptist Church in Grandin. Memorials may be made to the church...

Eddie W. Bennett, 88, of Poplar Bluff, died Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Visitation will at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 18 at Cotrell Funeral Chapel with the funeral service following at noon. Evangelist Mattie Grace Roberts Pearl will officiate. Burial will be at Morocco Cemetery in the Providence Community of Butler County...

The Poplar Bluff High School SHO-ME Marching Band earned honors last weekend at the Southeast Missouri Band Association Marching Competition in Sikeston. In the Class 5 Division, SHO-ME Band drum majors, Kaylee Merrick, Alyssa Brown and Layton Sanders were awarded Outstanding Field Command and the band earned second place overall in the Class 5 Division field show competition with their performance of, “Double Agent.”...

FISK — Patricia Pearl Roach, age 78, of Poplar Bluff, died Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Roach was born May 9, 1941 in St. Louis, daughter of the late Carl and Virginia Rusert. She had formerly worked in food service with the Poplar Bluff School system. She enjoyed shopping, cooking, going to the hair salon and going to concerts...

Ida Joan (Vandeven) Rowland, 78, Poplar Bluff, died on Oct. 8, 2019 at her home. Ida was born Dec. 3, 1940 to Edward and Dorothy (Elfrink) Vandeven and was raised in Bloomfield. Ida raised her family in Poplar Bluff and was an active volunteer in the community. ...

PIEDMONT — Gaylon Watson, 85, of Piedmont, died Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Morrison Funeral Chapel in Piedmont. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home chapel with Dennis Hovis officiating. Burial with military honors will be in the Masonic Cemetery.

Diane Marie Davenport, 72, died Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 in Poplar Bluff. The family will have a private burial at a later date.

Peggy Benton, 82, of Qulin, died Monday, Oct. 14, 2019 at her residence, in Qulin.  Visitation will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 19 at White-Sanders Funeral Home in Qulin.  The funeral will follow at 11 a.m. in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Gene Riddle and Rev. Donald Cox officiating.  Burial will be in Qulin Cemetery in Qulin. ...

BLOOMFIELD — W.R. ‘Bill’ Smith, 91, of Puxico, died Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 15, 1927 in Sturdivant, Mo. to the late Estill and Naoma Sparkman Smith. Mr. Smith served in the United States Marine Corps at the end of WW II and later retired from the Frisco Railroad. He lived most of his life in the Puxico area, farming and feeding cattle...

Jimmy ‘Goose’ Talkington, 79, of Poplar Bluff, passed away on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 at his home surrounded by his loving family. Jimmy was born on June 3, 1940 in Corning, Ark., the son of Robert and Ella (Glass) Talkington. On June 16, 1960 he married Marcia Johnson in Poplar Bluff and together they have shared over fifty-nine years of marriage...

Poplar Bluff Kiwanis Club has partnered with R-I elementary schools on a project designed to help students who are lonely or having a bad day.

Shauntae Michelle (Laird) Kurney, age 48 of Arlington, Texas passed away on Sept. 25, 2019 at her home with her family at her side. She was born on April 5, 1971 in Pine Bluff, Ark., the daughter of Roy Charles Laird, Jr. and Vernestine Greer. Shaunte attended first through twelfth grades at poplar Bluff Schools and later attended Northwest Missouri State University, where she met William Kurney Jr. two years later, they were married, celebrating twenty-seven years of marriage...

A Malden teenager was committed to the Missouri Department of Youth Services on Tuesday afternoon after he earlier pleaded guilty in connection to a May drive-by shooting on Business 60, east of Poplar Bluff. Accompanied by his attorney, Jordan Wellinghoff with Public Defender’s Office, Naaman Jahl Caldwell appeared before Presiding Circuit Judge Michael Pritchett for sentencing...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was merely the first inning, yet fans kept rising out of their seats to applaud or yell or twirl their red towels, to chant "Let's go, Nats!" and "M-V-P!" and various players' names, enjoying every moment of a seven-run outburst that would, eventually, propel their city to its first World Series appearance in 86 years...