Stories from Monday, March 6, 2023

Willa Bilbery, 94, of Williamsville, died Saturday, March 4, at Clark’s Mountain Nursing Center. Visitation is at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 11, 2023, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Williamsville Chapel. Funeral service is at noon, also in the Williamsville Chapel. Burial is in Holiday Cemetery, Williamsville...

Alpha Marie Kearbey, 84, of Poplar Bluff, formerly of Ellsinore, died Sunday, March 5, 2023. Visitation will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 7, in the McSpadden Funeral Home in Ellsinore, with the funeral services following at 1 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Scott Reynolds, Rev. Jerry Crowley and Rev. John Crowley officiating...

Millie Brown, 96, of Datto passed away March 3, 2023, at Corning Therapy and Living Center in Corning. Mrs. Brown was born Feb. 5, 1927 in Datto. She loved visiting with her family and enjoyed gospel singing, having been a member of a quartet for many years when she was young. She was a farmer and farmer’s wife. She and her husband, Quinn, worked side by side in the fields and managing day to day operations of their family farm. She was a member of Datto Missionary Baptist Church...

Loretta Wedepohl, 89, of Potosi, Missouri, formerly of Greenville, died Saturday, March 4, at Potosi Manor. Visitation is at 1 p.m., Saturday, March 11, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Greenville Chapel. Funeral service is at 3 p.m., also in the Greenville Chapel. Burial is in Rookwell Cemetery...

Jeanne Wallace, 82, of Mill Spring, died Saturday, March 4, at Crystal Oaks, Festus. Visitation is at 10 a.m., Wednesday, March 8, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Piedmont Chapel. Funeral service is at 11 a.m., also in the Piedmont Chapel. Burial is in Carson Hill Cemetery, Mill Spring...

Altrusa International of Poplar Bluff is celebrating Read Across America at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Twin Towers Library, 506 Hazel St. in Poplar Bluff. “Read Across America is an event honored yearly by Altrusa clubs everywhere,”...

The Kiwanis 85th Annual Pancake Day was, as usual, a sweet success. Kiwanis President Brian Taylor, member Jim Sanchez and third grade student Jake Fickert served up steaming flapjacks for the masses Saturday morning as residents and friends shuffled into the Poplar Bluff Junior High cafeteria...

Authors from across Missouri and Arkansas flocked to the Poplar Bluff Municipal Library on Saturday to make connections and meet readers. The Eighth Annual Author Fair allowed the public to meet authors of all genres, purchase their latest books and even get the authors’ signatures. ...

Bids for repairs to the Black River Coliseum roof have come in at approximately double what insurance inspectors alloted, but city officials feel they need to move forward with the project immediately. The council discussed and voted Monday to accept the lowest of two bids for the project, at $414,700 from J.R. Kennedy Construction...