- Writing parking tickets with a friendly smile (4/23/24)2
- Mayor Ford, Kiwanis light up Capaha Park's diamond (4/16/24)1
- The rise and fall of Capaha Park's wooden grandstand (4/9/24)
- Death of Judge Pat Dyer, prosecutor of the famous peonage case here in 1906 (4/2/24)2
- A third steamer Cape Girardeau was christened 100 years ago (3/26/24)
- Cape Girardeau christens its namesake (3/19/24)
- The humanist philosophy of Lester Mondale (3/12/24)1
From the Morgue
The Southeast Missourian's resident historian Sharon K. Sanders blogs about interesting pieces of local history pulled from the newspaper's morgue -- the place where our old editions are kept.
Lloyd Dale Clippard
Posted Thursday, December 8, 2011, at 12:00 AM
Lloyd Dale Clippard died 70 years ago yesterday during the Japanese assault on the Hawaiian Islands. He was the first Cape Girardeau service man to be killed in World War II.
Word of his death came to Girardeans more than two weeks after the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing. The Southeast Missourian carried the sad news on its front page on Dec. 18:
On Sunday, Dec. 21, 1941, a memorial service was held at the Teachers College, now Southeast Missouri State University:
Clippard's body was never recovered. It remains entombed in the hulk of the U.S.S. Utah at Pearl Harbor.
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