BUSINESS PERSONNEL

Kathie Garms has been promoted to assistant vice president and branch manager of the Jackson West Facility of Union Planters Bank.

Garms has been with Union Planters Bank of Southeast Missouri since 1986 and has served as teller, customer service representative, and most recently, assistant branch manger. She is a licensed investment representative with insurance license as well as securities license.

Union Planters Bank is an affiliate fo Union Planters Corp., a multi-bank holding company headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., with more than 400 offices throughout Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.

Walter and Iris Ford, of Ford & Sons Funeral Home of Cape Girardeau, recently attended the 80th annual meeting of the National Selected Morticians, held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.

The Fords attended seminars and study sessions on trends in funeral service, market share growth and the future of funeral services and funeral financing.

Membership in NSM is by invitation. The Fords have been members since 1962.

Bob Kail has joined Jackson Auto Parks Inc., 326 S. High in Jackson, as vice president and new stock holder.

Kail will be in charge of outside sales and marketing. He has more than 11 years sales experience and has worked the past four years with NAPA Tools and Equipment.

Shawna Ward, a fingernail artist and technician, has joined Special Effects Salon, 2532 William, in Cape Girardeau.

Ward of Jackson is a graduate of Cape Central High School and Heritage Beauty College, of Lebanon, Mo.

Donny W. Beasley, Tri-State Water Treatment Inc, RainSoft dealer in Cape Girardeau, has completed examinations to become a certified water specialist.

The examination, conducted by the Water Quality Association, is designed to demonstrate a high level of professional and technical knowledge in the field of point-of-use and point-of-entry water treatment.

The late William Bess has been honored by the Southeast Missouri Port Authority.

Ann B. Matthews and Martha Kiesling accepted a plaque from the port board president, Kin Dillon, honoring their father for service to the SEMO Port Authority.

Bess was appointed to the board in 1991.

Bess, who retired as Sikeston First National Bank president and chief executive officer in 1988, died in March.

Robert Forsythe of Scott City, a driver for United Parcel Services, has been honored for 30 years service.

Forsythe works out of the UPS facility in Cape Girardeau.

Ed McCormick, Veronica McCormick and Gary McCormick of Room Mates recently attended the National Billiards Show.

The feature addition to this seasons's billiard table line will be the AMF Renaissance "LaRose" model, which features elaborate carving and scroll work, included fruit and floral motifs.

Grace Pry has been named manager for the new Fashion Bug store to open in Cape Girardeau next month.

Pry, who has been serving as manager of Fashion Buy at Sikeston, has been with the company for six years.

The new Cape Girardeau store will be in an 8,400-square-foot facility at 258 Siemers Drive in Cape West Business Park and will hold its grand opening Oct. 16.

Jeannie Van De Ven has joined the Eddie Bauer Inc. as manager of its Cape Girardeau store, which opened at West Park Mall last week.

Van De Ven previously worked with Limited, in Lexington, Ky.

David J. Roth, a Cape Girardeau attorney, was honored recently during ceremonies at the Missouri Bar's annual meeting.

Roth was one of three winners of the Lon O. Hocker Awards, established in 1954 by Mary B. Hocker in memory of her late husband, an outstanding St. Louis trial lawyers.

The awards, presented at the Board of Governors Banquet at Adam's Mark Hotel in St. Louis, are presented annually by the Missouri Bar Foundations to lawyers under the age of 36 who have demonstrated unusual proficiency in the art of trial advocacy.

Drs. Steve Street, Douglas M. Baird III and Joseph P. Fernando have joined the Lucy Lee Healthcare System staff.

Street, a native of Springfield, received his doctor of osteopathy degree from the University of Health Science College of Osteopathic Medicine at Kansas City. He practiced three years as an anesthesiologist at University of Missouri-Columbia, and the past year as a pain management fellow at the Office of Pain Management, Liverpool, N.Y. He will work at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff.

Fernando attended medical school at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. He completed residencies of three months each in pediatrics, psychiatry and internal medicine. He was a chief resident during his final year of pediatrics residency at Flushing Hospital Medical Center in Flushing, N.Y. He will work at Northwest Medical Center in Poplar Bluff.

Baird, who will be at the Malden Medical Center, earned his doctor of osteopathy degree from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery at Kirksville. Prior to joining the Lucy Lee staff, he practiced family medicine and osteopathic surgery 27 years in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Lucy Lee Healthcare System is a member of Tenet HealthSystem.