Stories from Wednesday, December 16, 1992

JACKSON -- Truman B. Sawyer, 64, of Jackson, died Monday, Dec. 14, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 22, 1928, at Millersville, son of Steve and Meta Peters Sawyer. He and Peggy Jenkins were married Aug. 14, 1948. She died Nov. 18, 1990...

Schools are both cradle and mirror for our society. Just as they educate young people for the future, so do they reflect the times. The times, unfortunately, are violent, and that is shown back in the atmosphere of our educational institutions. The problem is not acute in Cape Girardeau, but an awareness of it is necessary among school administrators. We applaud the public school district's board of education for launching a review of its discipline policy...

Kristy Mehner is a resident of Cape Girardeau and coordinator of Cape Leadership '93. In our businesses, most of us have the opportunity to attend seminars and programs that are designed to teach us more about our trade or profession. But it is a rare opportunity to attend a program that is focused solely on the city in which we live and work. ...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hoffman, Cape Girardeau Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 10:38 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, 1992. Name, Sara Mae. Weight, 7 pounds 5 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Hoffman is the former Cindy Leimer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Leimer of Jackson. She is an accounting clerk at Delta Asphalt. Hoffman is a machinist at ACF Corp. He is the son of Robert Hoffman Sr. of Bartow, Fla...

Alma Huter, 91, of Nampa, Idaho, formerly of Gordonville, died Dec. 15, 1992. She was born in Gordonville Aug. 21, 1901. The former Alma Bodenstein married Alvin Huter April 1, 1923, in Gordonville. They left Gordonville for Idaho in 1924. She is survived by her husband, of Nampa; five sons, Raymond and Norman of Homedale, Idaho, and Melvin, Earl and Marvin of Nampa; one brother, Walter Bodenstein of Jackson; one sister, Cora Huter of Cape Girardeau, and eight grandchildren...

SIKESTON -- Gerald Ingram, 65, Sikeston Route 1, died Tuesday, Dec. 15, 1992, at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He was born Aug. 22, 1927, at Spadra, Ark., son of Jack and Lillian Moore Engram. Ingram was a developmental assistant at Missouri Delta Medical Center Regional Diagnostic Center. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army...

ORIOLE -- Robert Leslie "Les" Reynolds, 82, of Neelys Landing, died Monday, Dec. 14, 1992, at his home. He was born April 29, 1910, at Neelys Landing, son of Robert E. and Dora Mae Abernathy Reynolds. Reynolds was a farmer and factory worker, and member of Iona Baptist Church...

CHARLESTON -- Fred Anderson Davis, 57, of St. Louis, died Monday, Dec. 14, 1992, at his home. He was born Dec. 14, 1935, in Mississippi County, son of Anderson and Goldie Opal Oliver Davis. He and Rita Fay Paskel were married April 22, 1961. Davis was retired from Cupples Manufacturing Co. in St. Louis. He moved to St. Louis in 1956 from Charleston...

JACKSON -- James Howard McDowell, 82, of Jackson, died Monday, Dec. 14, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 23, 1910, at Fruitland, son of Charles J. and Nellie May Howard McDowell. McDowell was a retired carpenter, and member of Living Way Fellowship in Cape Girardeau. He helped build several churches in the Cape Girardeau and St. Louis areas, and received several awards for this service...

Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston got an early Christmas gift Friday with the announcement of a $100,000 gift from Sikeston attorney Robert A. Dempster and his wife Lynn. The gift will go toward funding the new Robert A. Dempster Restart Physical Medicine Complex. This modern physical therapy complex will be constructed next to the hospital...