Stories from Wednesday, September 22, 2021

The Butler County Genealogical Society will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday in the fellowship hall of the United Methodist Church at the corner of Fifth and Main streets. Visitors are welcome to attend. Barbara Rexroat will present a program titled “It’s the Little Things” discussing the strategies she used to find her family, who still live in Germany. Her great grandparents immigrated in 1871, and she visited her German cousins in 2019...

Cornelius “Boomer” Barker, 52, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Barker was born on March 11, 1969, in Pocahontas, Arkansas. He was the owner/manager of Barker Plumbing and enjoyed bass fishing, deer hunting, drag racing, RC flying and spending time with his daughter at the softball field...

Linda Suttles Linda Suttles, 77 of Clarkton passed away Monday, Sept. 20, 2021 at North Little Rock, Arkansas.

Vernon Henry Osborne, 79, of Williamsville, Missouri, died Friday, Sept. 17, 2021 at his home with his children by his side. He was born Dec. 21, 1941 at Shook, Missouri to the late Cecil and Mary (Gilbreath) Osborne. He was married to Virginia Linda Chiles on Jan. 18, 1963; to this union three children were born. Virginia passed away March 23, 2010. Vernon was loved by all who knew him, his friends, and his boss, Jim Cornell. All of his buddies called him “Tater.”...

A Doniphan woman will spend the next 12 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections after her guilty plea Monday for her part in the death of a Ripley County man. Dawn Alexis Lloyd pleaded guilty to the Class A felony of second-degree murder and the Class B felony of first-degree kidnapping and was sentenced to 12 years by 36th Judicial Circuit Presiding Judge Michael Pritchett...

Jason L. Lovell, 41, who listed Essex and Poplar Bluff addresses, was arrested at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, on Sixth Street on a warrant for possession of marijuana, on suspicion of possession of marijuana and on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia. He was booked at the Butler County jail...

Lesley Eby won last year’s Margaret Harwell Art Museum’s juried Art Guild exhibition with “Pulling Together,” an oil painting of a mule team. Her success came from a dedicated artistic practice that began when she was young. “My dad taught me to draw because he was an artist,” she said. Stanley Weinert was a disabled Navy veteran and stay-at-home father. Eby also gained insight into craftsmanship and creative passion from her mother, Floy Weinert, a seamstress, beautician and quilter...

Wrangling cash for Haven House is a skill area trail riders have been sharpening for more than three decades. The 32nd Haven House Trail Ride brought in $19,606 to help fund the domestic violence shelter’s general operating expenses. New rider and top fundraiser Stacy Allen’s saddlebags contained $7,067. Repeat riders Carolyn Cravens and Susan Lawson captured second and third places, respectively...

From classic cars and a jumping mule to wagon rides and a lot of food, Current River Heritage Days will present a full lineup of entertainment Friday and Saturday, Sept. 24-25, in Downtown Doniphan. The Doniphan Neighborhood Assistance Program (DNAP) has settled on a fall celebration after sponsoring for several years Civil War Days during April...

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than six million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. When Dana Hartgroves’ mother was diagnosed, she, her father and her sisters joined the 11 million caretakers looking after an Alzheimer’s patient...

When the Wake Foundation organizes a Veterans Honor Tour from Southeast Missouri to Washington, D.C., the vets normally must board a flight out of St. Louis. Next month, they'll be flying out of Cape Girardeau Regional Airport in northern Scott County...