Stories from Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Hazel Anderson Knox, 97, of Munford, Tennessee, passed away in her home Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. She was born Dec. 4, 1923, to the late Floyd Anderson and Mabel (Woolsey) Anderson of St. Louis, Missouri. She was of the Lutheran faith. On Feb. 14, 1953, she married her lifetime love, Billy Knox, Sr. in St. Louis. He preceded her in death, Nov. 15, 2003...

FISK — On Feb. 11, 1934, in the hills of Tennessee, a star was born. There was no red carpet - no pomp & circumstance - no extravagant gifts brought when Dorothy Geneva Baugus was born to Frank & Edna Baugus. No one recognized on that day that Dorothy Baugus, who would later become Dorothy Goodrich in 1951 when she married BA Goodrich, no one recognized on that winter day in 1934 that she was a star. No one knew then just how brightly she would shine in the lives of so many people. But shine she did!!!. ...

FISK — Billy Wayne Goins, age 70, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, died Monday, Nov. 8, 2021, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Goins was born Dec. 8, 1950, in Saint Louis, Missouri, son of the late Herschel Goins and Charlotte Lloyd. Billy enjoyed music, painting, and woodworking. He also loved spending time with his many grandchildren...

Civic leader, business leader, and mentor, Evelyn Whitworth passed away Nov. 6, 2021. She was 93. She was born in Cairo, Illinois on July 19, 1928 to Frances Paris Cox and John Cox. She grew up in Charleston and Poplar Bluff Missouri, graduating from PBHS in 1946...

I hope you will enjoy this story and poem from a combat vet who served in Vietnam. As a Vietnam combat veteran, I have experienced the carnage and watched the protests of the Vietnam war. War is a sad thing, but sometimes a necessary evil. Unfortunately, for most combat veterans of Vietnam, the protests were a very unfortunate experience...

A resident of the 200 block of County Road 632 at Fisk reported at 1:33 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, that someone had entered their storage shed and stolen a floor jack, jack stands and a two-person deer stand. _ Jeff Myatt reported at 10:22 a.m. Friday, Nov. 5, that several storage units at Myatt’s Drapery and Storage in the 3500 b lock of North Westwood Boulevard had been damaged...

Twin Rivers High School drama students will hold their first in-person production this week, after a year and a half of pandemic interruptions. “How To Succeed in High School Without Really Trying” is a comedy teacher Josh Hancock says students have had fun preparing for, and he believes the public will enjoy...

Butler County Collector Emily Parks said Tuesday residents of the county should expect to see their annual personal property and real estate tax statements in the mail soon. “Ours were mailed last week and should be hitting mailboxes starting Tuesday,” Parks said...

A Poplar Bluff man will spend the next 35 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections after he was sentenced Tuesday for his role in a January 2020 shooting of another man. Kayln Trasell Johnson’s sentencing by 36th Judicial Circuit Presiding Judge Michael Pritchett comes after he was found guilty Aug. 28 of assault in the first degree, armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a firearm...

Evelyn Whitworth, 93, who died Saturday, Nov. 6, is remembered by her friends and community leaders as a woman with a wonderful, upbeat attitude and for being involved in any event in the city where help was needed. Poplar Bluff attorney L. Joe Scott, a member of the United Gospel Rescue Mission Board, remembers the time they served together on the mission board...