Stories from Thursday, April 14, 2022

Jerry Lee Edmundson, son of the late Jasper Edmundson and Virginia (Darnell) Tibbs, was born Dec. 15, 1970, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and departed this life April 12, 2022, at Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of 51...

PATTERSON — Park Naturalist Michelle Soenksen has worked at Sam A. Baker State Park for 17 years. She took the job sight-unseen, she explained, with plans to move on to other parks eventually. Instead, she fell in love with this ancient sprawl of Ozark wilderness...

Ellen Romine, 71, of Poplar Bluff, died Thursday, April 7, at Hunter Acres Caring Center, Sikeston. Visitation is at 11 a.m., Saturday, April 16, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Greenville Chapel. Funeral service will follow at noon, also in the Greenville Chapel...

Life is a juggling act, wife, mother, banker and volunteer Christina Frazier-Moore of Poplar Bluff told those at the first Women Aware luncheon since the COVID pandemic began. When the pandemic interrupted her life, Frazier-Moore admitted, she put on a happy face yet allowed depression to slip into her life...

Millie Mae Harrison recently celebrated a pair of 100th birthday celebrations, one for herself, and one for twin brother Pfc. Billy Ball, who died Sept. 28, 1942, in a prisoner of war camp. Millie and Billy were the middle of six children. They were born March 8, 1922...

Haffy’s Bar & Grill in Poplar Bluff will host a benefit jam Saturday, for blues singer Darrell Nelson to assist with his upcoming knee surgery. Nelson, who attended college to become a voice coach, has been singing and entertaining for many years of his life...

BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT Derek Wayne Allen, 54, of Poplar Bluff was booked at the Butler County jail Wedneday, April 13, on a failure to appear warrant for speeding. He was later released. _ Mercedes Alexis Bell, 22, of Poplar Bluff was booked at the Butler County jail Wedneday, April 13, on suspicion of resisting arrest...