Stories from Thursday, November 26, 2020

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Veterans' organizations are encouraging individuals not to forget our military heroes this holiday season. With most veterans' homes not allowing visitors because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Christmas will be tough this year for many...

Capturing the essence of Gen. Seth McKee of the U.S. Air Corps, Jerry Ford and Dr. Frank Nickell tell the story of the Cape Girardeau native in their newly released book, "Seth: The Life and Journey of General Seth Jefferson McKee." McKee, who died Dec. ...

Cape Girardeau County's population will grow faster than Cape Girardeau city's over the next 25 years, regional planners predict; the city of Cape Girardeau could have a population of 45,887 by 2020, while the county could have nearly 91,000 inhabitants, according to new projections from the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Wanda Foster, 66 years of age, of Marble Hill went to be with her Lord and Savior Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, at the Southeast Hospital. She was born March 30, 1954, in Sikeston, Missouri, to the late Sherman William and Elsie Lou Upchurch Lincoln. She and David Foster were united in marriage on Oct. 23, 1998...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Virginia Ann Lohmann, 76, of Perryville, died Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, at Missouri Baptist Hospital. Visitation will be 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Funeral services will be at 11 Tuesday at the funeral with Deacon Direk Hunt officiating...

CLERMONT, Fla. -- Mabel Nell Schaefer, 85 of Clermont, formerly of Scott City, died Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, at her home. She was born Dec. 23, 1934, in Delta to Leo Daniel and Beulah Agnes Surface Simmons. She married Andrew Lawrence Schaefer on Sept. 5, 1975, in Scott City. He preceded her in death Aug. 30, 1996...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- James "Jim" M. Sutterer, 86, of Perryville passed away Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, at Independence Care Center in Perryville. He was born Sept. 12, 1934, in Perryville to Eloy L. and Iola L. Moll Sutterer. He and Jeanette D. Esselman were married April 30, 1955, at the Church of the Assumption...

We live in a time of heedless iconoclasm, and so one of the country's oldest traditions is under assault. Thanksgiving is increasingly portrayed as, at best, based on falsehoods and, at worst, a whitewash of genocide against Native Americans. The New York Times ran a piece the other day titled, "The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year," bristling with hostility toward the day of gratitude and noting that "the holiday arrives in the midst of a national struggle over racial justice." (The paper is admirably consistent -- a couple of years ago it ran an article headlined, "Everything You Learned About Thanksgiving Is Wrong."). ...