Stories from Monday, November 1, 2021

Joan Whaley, 78, of Bonne Terre, Missouri, died Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, at her residence. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2, at Crossroads Baptist Church, near Greenville. Funeral services will follow at 2 p.m., also at Crossroads Baptist Church...

Deborah J. (nee Jones) Burton, 66, of Poplar Bluff, peacefully passed away at her home Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, surrounded by her family after a brief battle with cancer. Debbie was born Nov. 7, 1954, in Cape Girardeau and is the daughter of Ronald and Joanna Jones of Jackson, Missouri. They survive...

Bonnie Lee (Elting) Stewart, 95, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. She was born on June 16, 1926 to the late William and Lola (Piland) Elting of Graybill, Missouri. She was a longtime resident of Butler County. Bonnie was of the Episcopal faith...

FISK, Mo. — Crockett Lacy, 65, of Memphis, Tennessee, died Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Lacy was born July 3, 1956 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, son of the late Clarence and Bessie Lacy. On Friday, Aug. 9, 1996 he married Karen Payne. She survives...

NEELYVILLE, Mo. — Mary Jo Marler, 76, of Harviell, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, at the Oakdale Nursing Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Mrs. Marler was born on June 2, 1945, in Marshfield, Wisconsin. She had worked as a nurse for Kneibert Clinic and was a member of the Elks Lodge in Poplar Bluff, having been the first lady to hold an office within the lodge. ...

Eulane Buttrey, 86, of Fisk, died Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, at Oakdale Care Center. Mrs. Buttrey was born Dec. 3, 1934, in Malden, daughter of the late Walter and Evelyn Hampton. She was a charter member of Twin Rivers General Baptist Church. She enjoyed music and playing the piano and loved being with her family...

One man is in jail after a Halloween argument turned into an exchange of gunfire. Poplar Bluff police say Arnold Felton, 55, of the 1000 block of Nooney was arrested around 9 a.m. Monday on Nooney Street. Felton’s arrest was the result of a weekend investigation into an incident that left seven gunshots in an occupied home in the 1000 block of Nooney, and additional shots in a vehicle, said Detective Dan Mustain...

Safety is the most important thing to the Butler County Fair Board. Rain may have caused the cancellation of the girls barrel racing and the rodeo, but it was for the safety of the competitors and the animals. Fair board member Jack Altman said, “We don’t want anyone or any animal to get hurt. ...

ELLSINORE — Two Mountain Home, Arkansas-based pilots are safe after making emergency landings on US Highway 60 Monday afternoon. Jared Justice and his sister, Valerie, were piloting a pair of experimental aircraft at about 1,500 feet off the ground when her plane, an Excalibur, developed power problems...

Trailblazing civic leader and beloved community member Betty Absheer passed away Saturday, Oct. 30, at the age of 85 after a short illness. Her decades of community service have left an indelible mark on Poplar Bluff. “When you think of the history of Poplar Bluff, she’s right there at the top,” her grandnephew Andy Knowles said...

Poplar Bluff City Council members expect to vote Nov. 15 on loan agreements related to $18.3 million in funds for improvements to Highway 67 south. The money includes two loans, which cover the city’s portion of funding for phases 1 and 2 of the effort to four-lane the highway from Poplar Bluff to the Arkansas border...

A 23-year-old woman sustained moderate injuries in a one-vehicle accident at 11:35 a.m. Friday, Oct. 29, on Highway HH, three miles south of Piedmont. According to the report, Sarah E. Besher, 23, of Piedmont was operating a 2007 Ford Fusion southbound when it ran off the left side of the roadway and struck a guy wire...