Stories from Friday, November 27, 2020

Since this week is Thanksgiving week, I have a question for you. What do you have to be thankful for? I keep looking at the pictures of the “first” Thanksgiving with the grateful Pilgrims and the friendly Native Americans gathered around a table feast. I know that is not how it was, but it is still a nice picture...

John Blase told the story of college sweethearts, Ashton and Austin Samuelson in his Nov. 1, 2020, Our Daily Bread devotional. After these two committed followers of Jesus graduated from a Christian college they sought to live out their faith in practical ways, but neither felt God was calling them to a traditional church ministry...

Ryan Pennington at Pennington Auto Sales at 2113 S. Westwood Blvd. reported at 12:24 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 26, that someone had stolen four wheels from a 2008 Honda Accord on the lot and a surveillance camera at around 7:58 p.m. the previous evening, based on security video footage...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL Joshua A. Morris, 35, of Kennett was arrested at 11:05 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25, on suspicion of no title and not wearing a seatbelt and a Dunklin County failure to appear warrant on the original charge of speeding. He was booked at the Dunklin County jail...

Black Friday shopping in Poplar Bluff was much more subdued this year than in the past, with visibly smaller than normal crowds waiting in lines for stores to open. “I think maybe it was a little lighter than usual with the pandemic,” Academy Sports+Outdoors Store director Gene Hux said of the early crowd. “I think most retail companies are expecting that.”...

SUCCESS, Arkansas — Coy Byrl Isaac, 100, of St. Peters, Missouri, passed away Nov. 24, 2020, at Christian Northeast Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Isaac was born Sept. 4, 1920, in Palatka, Arkansas. He was retired from Emerson Electric and had proudly served in the U.S. Navy during World War II...

Charles Eugene Johnson, 57, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away on Nov. 25, 2020, at his home. Charles was born on July 16, 1963, to the late Henry and Lois (Bilbrey) Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. He married Patricia (Dixon) Johnson on Oct. 17, 1983. She preceded him in death Dec. 4, 2013...

Thelma Lucinda Wilcutt peacefully joined her Lord on Nov. 26, 2020. She was 98 years old. She was born Thelma Lucinda Russell on Nov. 12, 1922, just outside Poplar Bluff, Missouri. In 1940, she married Roy Laverne Wilcutt, also of Poplar Bluff. She raised seven children; four boys and three girls. ...

Glenda V. Johnson, 85, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri. Glenda Valerie Richman was born Nov. 1, 1935, in Wayne County, Missouri, to Claude and Pauline (Dixon) Richman. She was a devoted and loving wife, grandmother and great-grandmother, who loved spending time with her family, going to church and listening to Christian music. She also enjoyed working crossword and word search puzzles...

A fundraising event designed to beef up the Bread Shed’s budget and fill five donors’ freezers with meat will take place Dec. 21.