Stories from Friday, May 7, 2021

Neelyville High School senior Makenzie Davis was selected winner of the Poplar Bluff Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizens Award.  She was honored with a reception at the April 8 chapter meeting, along with her parents, Shannon and Steve Davis, and Neelyville High School Counselor Julie Cloud. ...

Rep. Hardy Billington recently presented a resolution to Grandin’s Kaylee Lewis after she was sworn in as a member of the Missouri Bar. Pictured are (from left) grandparents Jerry Lewis and Carolyn Lewis, Billington, Kaylee Lewis, and parents Monica Lewis and Jarrod Lewis.

Poplar Bluff High School senior Layton Sanders has been selected to receive the $500 Kyle Curtis Dicken Memorial Scholarship. Sanders plans to attend Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, where he will study music education, with a goal of becoming a music instructor upon completing graduate school and possibly his doctorate...

Delbert Withrow, 73, of Puxico, passed away Thursday, May 6, 2021 at General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell, Missouri. Delbert was born January 23, 1948 to James ‘Dobie’ and Wantona ‘Toni’ Spencer Withrow in Poplar Bluff. He and Johnnie McCain were married July 29, 1974. She survives...

A Fisk man wanted on a federal U.S. Marshal’s detainer warrant and various Stoddard County warrants was arrested Thursday in a joint operation involving a variety of local, county, state and federal agencies. Michael S. Ryan, 36, was taken into custody Thursday at a Fisk residence after he allegedly fled from Dexter police officers...

Verna June Meador, 67 of Poplar Bluff passed away Thursday May 6, 2021 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. A lifetime resident of Poplar Bluff, She was born April 11, 1954. Verna knew many people who all enjoyed her company. She loved spending time outdoors, fishing, cookouts and family gatherings. Being with those she loved, especially her five grandchildren...

Virginia L. Rainwater, 85, of Greenville, died Wednesday, May 5, at Greenville Nursing and Rehab. Visitation is at 5 p.m. Friday, May 7 at Ruegg Funeral Home, Greenville Chapel. Funeral service is at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 8, also in the Greenville Chapel. Burial following at Camp Eight Cemetery...