Stories from Sunday, December 16, 1990

EAST PRAIRIE - East Prairie resident William F. "Bunk" Wilson died Friday, Dec. 14, 1990 at Gideon. He was 58. Wilson was born Oct. 1, 1932 in Pemiscot County, the son of the late Charlie Doss and Zella Bruce Wilson. He was a retired truck driver and of the Baptist faith...

The Missouri Senate minority leader is spending more than $20,000 to remodel his Capitol office. That's the problem with the state's General Assembly - the Republicans don't act any differently than the Democrats. --- We have memorialized December 7 as Pearl Harbor Day. Why not set aside December 3 and name it Iben Browning Day to remember treacherous attacks by frenzied climatologists?...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Tony Darrell Ellis of Hueytown, Ala., formerly of East Prairie, died Tuesday, Dec. 11, near Hueytown, due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was 28. Services were held Saturday at the Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie, and burial followed in the East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery near East Prairie...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Funeral services for Margaret C. Putman, 78, of Cape Girardeau, will held tomorrow at 10 a.m., at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Cy Smith will officiate. Burial will be in Lorimier Cemetery. Friends may call today at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel from 4-8 p.m...

ADVANCE -- Funeral service for Joe N. Bland of Advance will be at 2 p.m. today at the Morgan Funeral Home in Advance. Billy Davis of the Advance Church of Christ will officiate and burial will follow at Morgan Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr. Bland died Thursday at the Advance Nursing Care Center. He was 93...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Paul Heath of West Memphis, Ark., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, Dec. 13, 1990, at the Methodist Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. He was 84. Services were held Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Citizen's Funeral Home in West Memphis, Ark. Burial followed in West Helena, Ark...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Orrin J. Read, 78, of Ocala, Fla. and formerly of Cape Girardeau died Friday at Marion Community Hospital in Ocala. He was born in St. Louis and moved from Cape Girardeau to Florida in 1973. He was the owner of Karron Typewriter Co. in Cape Girardeau. He also was a World War II veteran of the U.S. Navy and a member of the Presbyterian Church...

For Sunday The time for the committal service was incorrect in Friday's paper, 11:30 a.m. is the correct time. CAPE GIRARDEAU Funeral service will be held today for Zell P. White, 88, who died Thursday, Dec. 13, 1990, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center in Cape Girardeau...

SEDGEWICKVILLE - Sedgewickville resident James Richard Goehman died Saturday, Dec. 15, 1990 at the family home. He was 58. He was born June 8, 1932 in Jackson to Albert and Oma Herzog Goehman. Goehman was a self-employed carpenter and a member of the First Baptist Church in Sedgewickville...

ADVANCE - A memorial service will be held Monday for 19-year-old Misty Marie Wilson, of Route 1, Advance, who died Friday, Dec. 14, 1990 in a motor vehicle accident near Morley. The service will be held at 1 p.m. at the Morgan Funeral Home chapel in Advance. Presiding will be the Rev. Robert Gardner...

EAST PRAIRIE - Anna May Stewart, 90, of East Prairie, died Saturday, Dec. 15, 1990 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Arrangements were incomplete Saturday at the McMikel Funeral Home in Charleston.

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Geneva Parmley, 95, of 2517 Windy Hill, died Saturday, Dec. 15, 1990 at her residence. The body is at Ford and Sons Funeral Home where arrangements are incomplete.

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Lottie N. Sams, 77, of 611 S. West End Blvd., Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Dec. 15, 1990, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. The body is a Ford & Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau, where arrangements are incomplete...

SIKESTON -- Bryan Keith Childers, 24, of Sikeston died Friday, Dec. 14, 1990 in an auto accident near Morley. He was born Nov. 15, 1966 in Dexter, the son of Ralph Paul and Dorothy Marie Hundhausen Childers, who both survive. He was formerly employed at Cargill at Sikeston and was member of Sikeston Eagles Aerie 3319...

MARBLE HILL -- John F. Blanken, 76, of Marble Hill died Saturday, Dec. 15, 1990 at Bond Nursing Care Center in Marble Hill. He was born July 2, 1914 near Marble Hill, son of the late John and Vesta Oldham Blanken. On Aug. 10, 1940 he married to Audrey Mott. She survives...

WARDELL, Mo. Gussie Goldie Bowen, 97, of Wardell, Mo., died Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1990 at Pemiscott County Memorial Hospital in Hayti. She was born March 3, 1893 at Wyatt, Miss., daughter of Charlie and Roseanne Brantley Martin. On Nov. 16, 1911, she married Joe A. Bowen in Forrest City, Ark. He preceded her in death Jan. 29, 1948...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Charles Wahl, 62 years old, of 2006 Brink, died Saturday, Dec. 15, 1990, at St. Francis Medical Center. Arrangements were incomplete Saturday at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.

It's one thing to talk about building an alliance between business and education. It's another matter to put words into action. One local business demonstrating its commitment to education is Tri-Con. For the past two years, the Cape Girardeau manufacturer has offered G.E.D. ...

I'D LIKE FOR somebody to tell me what kind of scum would call people on the telephone and talk so filthy to them. I don't know what kind of people these are. They must be cowards or something because if they were any kind of people at all at least they ought to give their name to the people if they're mad at them. But why would they want to call them and talk such filth and then hang up? What kind of people are these people? Thank you...

I AM TIRED of hearing about the greedy, money-hungry Americans who were working in Kuwait. They weren't forced to go over there. It was greed or else to get away from their families. They made as much in one year as we do in five or more. They could have afforded the plane ticket every year if they miss their families so much. Now the taxpayers are paying to bring them home...

THERE AREN'T A lot of things that rock my boat, but the articles in the paper lately about earthquake preparedness are really getting to me. The guys who are knocking Browning and Stewart aren't doing the right thing. The people and buildings in San Francisco are prepared. ...