Stories from Sunday, December 2, 1990

KIRKWOOD - Funeral services for Martha G. Pritchard, 70, formerly of Cape Girardeau and Kirkwood, will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m., at the Pfitzinger Mortuary, 331 S. Kirkwood, in Kirkwood. Pritchard died Saturday at a nursing care center in Neosho....

The curve on North Main Street by the former shoe factory site is more than inconvenient ... it's dangerous. That's why the city of Cape Girardeau is on target with its plan to straighten the stretch. We urge the project to move ahead as quickly as possible, before the site becomes home to a new industrial prospect. ...

Our Channel 13 Behind the Headlines program, until now seen on Wednesday evenings, will move to Tuesday evenings at 8 beginning this week. The change is necessary so as not to conflict with the new city council meeting times of Monday and Wednesday evenings...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Glen (Pete) Stephens, 3208 Kage Hills Drive, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. The Rev. David Reel will officiate, with burial in Morgan Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. until time of service...

BLOOMFIELD -- Funeral service for Mabel Hartley of Bloomfield will be held at 2 p.m. today at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Paul Catterton will officiate, with burial in West Pleasant Valley Cemetery near here. Mrs. Hartley, 83 years old, died Friday, Nov. 30, 1990, at Dexter Memorial Hospital...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Mrs. Lillian D. Gage of Charleston Route 2 will be held at 2 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Chapel here. The Revs. Lee Fansler and Lawrence Ray will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. until time of service...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Mrs. Joanne Linn, 1906 Westwood, will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Westminster Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Miles White will officiate, with Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel in charge of arrangements. Graveside service will be 11 a.m. Monday at Marshfield City Cemetery...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Graveside service for James Elam Hempstead of Lubbock, Tex., was held Friday at Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Fruitland. The Rev. William Bernauer officiated, with McCombs Funeral Home of Jackson in charge of arrangements. Hempstead, 84 years old, died Monday, Nov. 26, 1990, at St. Mary's Hospital in Lubbock...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Ornon Frazier Miller, age 88, of Cape Girardeau, died Nov. 30, 1990, at Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. He was born Jan. 26, 1902, at Commerce, son of Robert and Effie Redman Miller. He worked as a tool and die maker for the Precision Tool and Die Co. in St. Louis. He was a member of Broadway United Methodist Church...

WYATT -- Mrs. Laura Burnett of Wyatt died Saturday. The body is at the Sparks Funeral Home in Charleston, where funeral arrangements are incomplete. RM20Ross obit... PT14Dennis J. RossPT2 CHAFFEE Dennis J. Ross, 63, of Chaffee died Friday at the John J. Pershing Veterans Hospital in Poplar Bluff...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Public graveside services for Earl D. Robinson, 83, of Cape Girardeau, will be held Monday, at 11 a.m., at the Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau. Jim Seabaugh will officiate. There will be no visitation. Robinson died Saturday at the Cape Girardeau Nursing Center...

DELTA -- Funeral service for Shannon D. Cook of Delta will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church in Delta. The Rev. Kenneth Martin will officiate, with Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel of Chaffee in charge of the arrangements. Burial will follow in Union Park Cemetery in Chaffee...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Service for Francis L. ("Whitey") Housman will be held at the Shelby Funeral Chapel here Monday at 1 p.m., with the Rev. Raymond Hannah, pastor of Diehlstadt General Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Dogwood Cemetery near East Prairie...

OLMSTED, Ill. -- Funeral service for Thelma Taylor, formerly of Olmsted, will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Crain Funeral Home in Mounds, Ill. Taylor died Saturday at Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Ill. at the age of 92. She was born Feb. 11, 1898 at Olmsted, the daughter of George Hearld and Texana Sanders Hearld...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Arthur August Schlegel, 81, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday at the Cape Girardeau Veterans Home. He was born April 25, 1909 to August and Katie Ledure Schlegel. On July 2, 1953, he married the former Marge Fehrmann. He worked at International Shoe Co. in Cape Girardeau before moving to St. Louis to do construction work...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- In just over a month, Todd Matzat has earned about $600 playing the stock market. Unfortunately, he says, his $10,000 investment is just hypothetical. Matzat and other students in the Probe gifted program at L.J. Schultz Middle School have been studying the stock market...

Holiday decorating can be magic with poinsettias. It can be more vibrant and alive this year than ever before by using poinsettias throughout the home. Today's varieties stay beautiful, not only during the holidays, but well into the dreary months ahead. In fact, a white one from last Christmas has just left the living room coffee table where it has been for one year, still with the bracts intact...