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Harry Cantrell (05/22/12)
Harry Eugene Cantrell, 93, of Mayfield, Ky., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, May 19, 2012, at Mills Health and Rehab Facility in Mayfield. Visitation will be from noon to service time Wednesday at Cape County Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau...

Richard Carrube (05/22/12)
Richard Carrube, 23, of Sun Tan City, Ariz., died Friday, May 18, 2012, in Cape Girardeau. The funeral will be in Mesa, Ariz. Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau is in charge of local arrangements.

Luetta Kelley (05/22/12)
ANNA, Ill. -- Luetta Kelley, 97, of Anna died Sunday, May 20, 2012, at Anna Rehab and Nursing Center. She was born Oct. 21, 1914, in Anna, daughter of Luther D. and Laura E. Treece Anderson. She and Cecil V. Kelley were married March 18, 1939, in Jackson. He preceded her in death Jan. 8, 1989...

Violet Klaus (05/22/12)
Violet Ruth Klaus, 87, of Friedheim died Sunday, May 20, 2012, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 3, 1924, in Oak Ridge, daughter of Alfred and Lydia Ruesler Ruppel. She and Milford W. Klaus were married July 22, 1945. He preceded her in death Nov. 23, 2011...

Helen Mayberry (05/22/12)
Helen Irene Mayberry, 89, of Jackson passed away Sunday, May 20, 2012, at Monticello House. She was born Feb. 19, 1923, in Oran, Mo., daughter of George Washington and Mary Lape Bowers. She and Ernest Mayberry were married Jan. 27, 1941. He passed away June 29, 2004...

John Merrick (05/22/12)
BERTRAND, Mo. -- John Warren Merrick, 63, of Bertrand died Monday, May 21, 2012, at his home. He was born Oct. 7, 1948, in Cape Girardeau, to the late Bob M. and Charlene Ruth "Cricket" Warren Merrick. He married his high school sweetheart, J. Jane Caldwell, July 19, 1969...

Robert VanGennip (05/22/12)
GLENALLEN, Mo. -- Robert Lewis VanGennip, 74, of Glenallen died Friday, May 18, 2012, at the home of his daughter. He was born March 29, 1938, near Advance, Mo., son of Joseph and Bertie Mansker VanGennip. He and Hazel Laverne Christy were married June 16, 1956. She preceded him in death in 2007...

Joshua Adams (05/22/12)
Joshua Adams, age 31, of Youngtown, Ariz., died Friday, May 18, 2012, in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 3, 1980, in Aurora, Colo., to Jerry and Barbara Bright Adams. Joshua graduated from Peoria High School in Peoria, Ariz., and from Glendale Community College with an associate's degree in business. He loved to water and snow ski. He was very outgoing and artistic. He enjoyed both art and music. He worked in sales for ADT Security and had worked construction and as a loan officer...

Karen Yamnitz (05/21/12)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Karen Marie Yamnitz, 46, of Perryville died Saturday, May 19, 2012, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. Karen was born Sept. 2, 1965, in Perryville. Karen and David Yamnitz were married Sept. 23, 1989. He survives in Perryville. She is survived by her mother, Sue Ochs Hagan Dunker, and stepfather, Doug Dunker, of Perryville...

Joshua Adams (05/21/12)
Joshua Adams, 31, died Friday, May 18, 2012, in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday at Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

D. Jane Bollinger (05/21/12)
BELL CITY, Mo. -- D. Jane Bollinger, 79, of Bell City died Saturday, May 19, 2012, at Jackson Manor. Bollinger was born Dec. 18, 1932, to the late Charles and Maude Overbey Cossou. She was a retired secretary for Bell City High School. She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Bell City...

Raymond Bollinger (05/21/12)
BENTON, Mo. -- Raymond Paul Bollinger, 91, "The Oldest Man in Benton" passed away Sunday, May 20, 2012, at his home in Benton. He was born Aug. 18, 1920, in Benton, to Charles and Adelia Westrich Bollinger. He and Bernadette Seiler were married Sept. 24, 1946...

Jayne Griffard (05/21/12)
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- Elizabeth Jayne Griffard, 58, of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., formerly of Scott City, died Saturday, May 19, 2012, at Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital. She was born Dec. 15, 1953, at Chaffee, Mo., the daughter of Albert "Jay" and Dorothy Louise Newlin Fowler. She married Joseph Ray Griffard on Dec. 31, 2000, in Scott City...

James Ketcher (05/21/12)
James Joseph Ketcher, 69, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, May 19, 2012, at his home. He was born Nov. 29, 1942, in St. Louis, to John E. and Charlotte E. Bacott Ketcher. Ketcher graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with bachelor's degree...

Norma Tackett (05/21/12)
Norma Jean Tackett, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, May 20, 2012, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Tackett was born Nov. 17, 1931, in Cape Girardeau, to Charlie Hahn and Carrie Holland. She married Eli Tackett in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death...

Hubert Winschel (05/21/12)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Hubert A. Winschel, 83, of Perryville died Sunday, May 20, 2012, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Winschel was born Nov. 8, 1928, in Perry County, son of August and Helen (Ernst) Winschel. He and Virginia M. Pingel were married Jan. 20, 1951. She preceded him in death Sept. 6, 2011...

Joshua Adams (05/20/12)
Joshua Adams, 31, died Friday, May 18, 2012, in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.

Thomas Dietrich (05/20/12)
Thomas Raymond Dietrich, 64, of Imperial, Mo., died Friday, May 18, 2012, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Nov. 16, 1947, in St. Louis, to John and Elizabeth Furi Dietrich. He and Delores Langston were married Dec. 15, 1990, at Cape Girardeau...

Anna Douglas (05/20/12)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Anna Mae "Sis" Douglas, 86, of Marble Hill passed away Friday, May 18, 2012, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 30, 1926, in the Hurricane Fork community, the daughter of the late Rev. Elzie J. and Hattie A. Cook. She and Oda George Edward Douglas were united in marriage Oct. 13, 1945, and he passed away on Nov. 23, 1983...

L. Lucille Frank (05/20/12)
L. Lucille Frank, 93, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, May 17, 2012, at the Lutheran Home. She was born Aug. 26, 1918, in Jackson, to Daniel Grover and Cornelia E. Lessley Slinkard. She and Ervin A. Frank Jr. were married Jan. 6, 1944, at Liberal, Kan. He died Sept. 4, 2010...

James Ketcher (05/20/12)
James Joseph Ketcher, 69, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, May 19, 2012, at his home Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday at the Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the chapel, with Pastor Jack Ketcher officiating...

Dorse Decelis (05/19/12)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Dorse E. Decelis, 88, of Advance passed away May 17, 2012, at Clark's Mountain Nursing Center in Piedmont, Mo. He was born July 11, 1923, at McGee, Mo., son of Byron and Nancy Hacdock Decelis. Dorse retired after more than 30 years with Mallinckrodt Chemical Co...

Arvie Johnson (05/19/12)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Arvie Dale "Buck" Johnson, 86, of Marble Hill passed away Thursday, May 17, 2012, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 20, 1925, at Bonne Terre, Mo., son of Courtney Lawrence and Oriole E Johnson. He and Lillie Marie Barks were married April 10, 1945, in Corning, Ark. She passed away Nov. 9, 2003...

Joseph Hahn (05/19/12)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Joseph Green "J.G." Hahn, 81, of Advance died Thursday, May 17, 2012, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Nov. 19, 1930, in Cape Girardeau, son of Joseph and Bethany Cox Hahn. He and Lela Bock were married Aug. 27, 1961, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Chaffee, Mo...

Mary Collier (05/19/12)
Mary Jane Collier, 85, of Jackson died Thursday, May 17, 2012, at Monticello House in Jackson. She was born Dec. 28, 1926, in DuQuoin, Ill., to Hiley and Margaret Oliver Hodge. She and George Collier were married Jan. 8, 1966. Mary Jane was a member of First Baptist Church of Oak Ridge. She owned and operated Clay Cellar Ceramics Shop in Oak Ridge more than 40 years...

Nancy Griffin (05/19/12)
GYPSY, Mo. -- Nancy Griffin, 70, of Gypsy, formerly of Chaffee, Mo., died Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Friends may call from 11 a.m. until time of service Monday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the chapel...

Tommy Price (05/19/12)
James Thomas "Tommy" Price, 63, of Jackson died Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at his home. He was born Oct. 29, 1948, in Campbell, Mo., to James Owen and Dellie Elizabeth Lane Price. He and Susan Pohlmann were married Nov. 30, 1974, in Kansas City, Mo...

Rita Fornkohl (05/19/12)
Rita A. Fornkohl, 91, of Jackson passed away Thursday, May 17, 2012, at Jackson Manor, surrounded by her family. She was born May 26, 1920, in Ancell, daughter of Ivan D. and Clara E. Diebold Brant. She and Arthur C. Fornkohl were married Nov. 20, 1938, in Poplar Bluff, Mo. He passed away Sept. 12, 1992...

Catherine Taylor (05/19/12)
Catherine Louise Taylor, 88, of Jackson passed away Tuesday, May 15, 2012, at Jackson Manor, where she resided since December 2011. She was born June 26, 1923, in Jackson, daughter of Vera G. and Zelma Catherine Talley Taylor. Louise was a 1941 graduate of Jackson High School. She received a bachelor's degree from Southeast Missouri State University and a master's degree from Columbia University in New York. She briefly studied in Europe observing Montessori schools...

Clyde Quesenberry (05/19/12)
Clyde Millard Quesenberry, 78 of Olive Branch, Ill., passed away at 9:37 p.m. Thursday, May 17, 2012, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Clyde was born Nov. 15, 1933, in Wythe County, Va., son of the late John and Annie Quesenberry...

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Final advice: Panel against routine prostate test (05/22/12)
WASHINGTON -- Healthy men shouldn't get routine prostate cancer screenings, says updated advice from a government panel that found the PSA blood tests do more harm than good. Despite strenuous protests from urologists, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is sticking by a contentious proposal it made last fall. ...

A healthy (but creamy) potato salad for summer (05/22/12)
So you're having a barbecue and you want to keep it at least a little healthy. You've got the lean chicken breasts marinating and ready for the grill. You've got a colorful tossed salad filled with the season's bounty. You've got corn on the cob for grilling and fresh watermelon and strawberries for nibbling. That's a good start...

Health Beat: Eggs: A source of protein (05/22/12)
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Adopt Nala (05/20/12)
Nala is 1 year old. She is already spayed. Nala is available for adoption at the Humane Society, 334-5837.