Obituaries

Rosie L. Choate, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, June 28, 2022, at Southeast Hospital. She was born March 14, 1943, in San Antonio, Texas, to Nieves and Carlota Arocha Lara. She was a member of the Church on the Rock in Sikeston, Missouri. Survivors include a son, Edward H Jaco of Cape Girardeau; brother, Felix Lara of Texas; eight grandchildren, Jason Jaco of Jackson, Jessica Jaco of Jackson, Stephanie Jaco of Michigan, Catherine Jaco of Cape Girardeau, Allison Jaco of Cape Girardeau, Robert Griffith of Cape Girardeau, Amber Seeley of Jackson and Jennifer Howard of Cape Girardeau; several great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.. ...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- John Edward Biler, 89, son of the late Eugene and Luella Thompson Biler, was born July 22, 1932, in Lilbourn, Missouri, and departed his life Tuesday, June 28, 2022, at his home in Chaffee. On Jan. 22, 1955, he was united in marriage to Donna Lee Denton in Chaffee. She preceded him in death...

Paula Marie Chapman, 74, daughter of the late Paul and Janet Eden Moore, was born March 12, 1948, in Anoka, Minnesota, and departed her life Sunday, June 26, 2022, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. On July 5, 1968, she married Ellston Chapman in Anoka at the Anoka Assembly of God. He survives...

DEER PARK, Wash. -- Troy Dooley of Deer Park, formerly of Jackson, passed away Thursday, June 9, 2022, at his home. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Wilma Tackett Dooley, and two daughters, Judi Poynor of Deer Park and Jeri Cole of Moscow Mills, Missouri; eight grandchildren, Robyn Hofmeister of Wentzville, Missouri; Josh Cole of Wright City, Missouri; Patrick Cole of O'Fallon, Missouri; Brennon Poynor Millwood of Washington; Jordon Poynor of Walla Walla, Washington; Morgan DeAnda of Warrenton, Missouri; Evan Poynor of Post Falls, Indiana; and Cody Cole of St. ...

Linda Kay Elledge, 71, of Scott City died Wednesday, June 29, 2022, at the Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 7, 1950, to Paul Eugene and Bessie Magdlene Robinson Noland. She married Robert Lawrence Elledge on Feb. 24, 1990. He preceded her in death Dec. 23, 2020...

Thomas, "Tom", Henry Froemsdorf was a generous and loving husband, father, pawpaw, brother, uncle and friend. He died suddenly on June 29, 2022, at age 80. He was born in Cape Girardeau to Henry and Elizabeth Froemsdorf on Feb. 24, 1942. Tom was a 1959 graduate of Central High School in Cape Girardeau. ...

DEER PARK, Wa. -- Troy Dooley of Deer Park, formerly Jackson, died June 9, 2022, at his home. Lauer Funeral Home in Deer Park is in charge of arrangements.

Rosaura "Rosie" L. Choate, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, June 28, 2022, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home with the Rev. True Curtis officiating. Burial will be at Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...

Edna Mae Crader, 84, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, June 25, 2022, at Life Care Center of Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 12, 1937, in Gravel Hill to the late Arthur LeRoy and Anna Francis Siebert Noel. Edna married Roby J. Brown, and to that union three children were born, Gary, Brad and Brenda. She later married Joe F. Crader on Sept. 24, 1966, in Jackson. He preceded her in death Sept. 5, 2002...

PAINTON, Mo. -- Joseph Wayne French, 76, of Painton was called to heaven Tuesday, June 28, 2022. A lifelong farmer, Joseph worked his fields right up until his final battle with cancer and passed peacefully at home surrounded by his family. Joe was born Nov. ...

KELSO, Mo. -- Thomas H. Froemsdorf, 80, of Kelso died Wednesday, June 29, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, with a rosary at 7 p.m. at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. Funeral mass will be Saturday, 10 a.m. at St. Mary Cathedral in Cape Girardeau...

Vivian Ruth Ross Harris, 96, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, June 29, 2022, at Southeast Hospital. Services are pending at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home.

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Patricia Lee "Teash" Hinkebein, 64, of Columbia passed away at 4:02 p.m., Tuesday, June 28, 2022, at home surrounded by her family. She was the daughter of Maurice and Leila Patnode Wood. Her siblings are Emily Rose Bowen, who died April 9, 1992; Daniel Wood; Paul Wood; Timothy Wood; Susan Wood Allen; Mary Alice Wood Bernal; and Lisa Wood Grimm...

Linda Rochelle Morris-Moylan died Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in Cape Girardeau, after a prolonged battle with lung cancer. Rochelle wished for a private family spreading of her ashes in lieu of a public service. Arrangements have been entrusted to Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau...

Jerry Stone, 85, of Cape Girardeau passed away on Thursday, June 23, 2022, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 20, 1936, in St. Louis, son of Boyd C. and Blanche Huff Stone. He and Carole Hahn were united in marriage, and she preceded him in death...

Edna Glenneta Vogelsang, 93, passed away peacefully Sunday morning, June 26, 2022, in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 24, 1929, to Glenn and Hazel Van Winkle Allen. On Aug. 15, 1947, she wed Calvin C. Vogelsang. They were blessed with four children, Sharon Eve, David Calvin, Steven Allen and Daniel "Danny" Charles...

SCOTT CITY -- Paula Marie Chapman, 74, died Sunday, June 26, 2022, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. There will be a memorial service at 11 a.m. July 5 at Bethel Assembly of God Church in Cape Girardeau with the Rev. Phillip Roop officiating. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in charge of arrangements...

SCOTT CITY -- Delores S. Eifert, 84, daughter of the late Clyde Keesee and Essie Mullinax Keesee was born on June 6, 1938, in Fornfelt, Missouri, and departed her life on Sunday, June 26, 2022, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. On Dec. 21, 1958, she was united in marriage to Charles Leon Eifert in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death on Oct. 24, 2001...

Carol Lee Mouser, 73, of Jackson died Sunday, June 26, 2022, at her home. She was born June 14, 1949, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, to Arley and Opal Pugh Myers. Survivors include two sons, Timothy (Melody) Mouser and Jeremy (Lori) Mouser; two brothers, Harold (Brenda) Myers and Junior (Sharon) Myers; sister, Marilyn Braswell; four grandchildren, Drake Mouser, Kaden Mouser, Allyson Mouser and Grant Mouser; brother-in-law, Ronald Gipson; two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Myers and Barbara Myers; and numerous nieces and nephews.. ...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Martin C. Reiss Jr., 89, of Perryville died Monday, June 27, 2022, at Independence Care Center in Perryville. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Friday, with a rosary at 8:30 a.m., at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- James "Jimmy" Benjamin Abernathy, 59, of Perryville died Saturday, June 25, 2022. He was born Dec. 23, 1962, in Inglewood, California, to Robert E. and Linda Reinke Abernathy. He served in the Army. James was a forklift operator at Gilster-Mary Lee in Perryville...

Edna M. Crader, 84, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, June 25, 2022, at Life Care Center of Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. Funeral service will follow at noon at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Lorimier Cemetery...

SCOTT CITY -- Delores S. Eifert, 84, died Sunday, June 26, 2022, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. Funeral services will then be conducted at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Mark Boettcher officiating. Interment will follow in the Eisleben Lutheran Cemetery in Scott City...

Patricia Ann Furey, 88, of Jackson died Saturday, June 25, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. July 6 at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Funeral Mass will be at 9:30 a.m. July 7 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jackson with the Rev. Randolph Tochtrop officiating. Interment will follow at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis...

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- Barbara Ann Herring died Thursday, June 23, 2022, in Ste. Genevieve at the age of 85 years. The daughter of the late Arthur George and Edna Juanita Barfoot Bentley Sr., she was born March 10, 1937. On Dec. 26, 1960, in Gideon, Missouri, she was united in marriage to Robert Louis Herring. He preceded her in death March 17, 2020...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Sammie Presson Hise Sr., 68, died Monday, June 27, 2022, at his home near Sikeston. Born Nov. 30, 1953, to the late Otis Hise and Ruth Mae Brenton White, Sammie kept his home in the Bootheel. On Dec. 15, 1972, he married Judy Myers Hise, who survives of the home...

Irven Edward Kidd died Sunday, June 26, 2022. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee, Missouri. Funeral service will follow at 11 a.m. in the funeral home chapel with Minister Bobby Stout officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...

David Allen Kunz died Friday, June 24, 2022, in Cape Girardeau at the age of 76. He was born in St. Louis June 7, 1946, the son of August Frank Kunz and Mary Ruth Kunz. He was the oldest of six children. David attended Kirkwood (Missouri) High School and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1969 with a marketing degree. Post-graduation, he served 3 years in the U.S. Navy as an officer in Vietnam...

ST. LOUIS -- Marilyn LeVan of St. Louis and formerly of Kelso, Missouri, and Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, June 19, 2022. She was born Aug. 14, 1933, to Theon and Cornetta Seyer. She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Curtis; son, Kent; sister, Judy Bane; nephews, Kevin Scott and John Spitler; and several cousins...

Ralph C. Maxton, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, June 24, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Aug. 25, 1938, in Cape Girardeau to Wallace Albert and Adele Wilhelmina Obrock Maxton. He and Martha Lou Weiss were married Dec. 3, 1961, at Emanuel United Church of Christ in Jackson...

Thomas Michael Meyer, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, June 25, 2022, at his home. He was born Feb. 16, 1949, in Cape Girardeau to Thomas L. and Helen Giroir Meyer. He and Mary E. Griffith were married June 2, 1973, at St. Mary's Cathedral in Cape Girardeau...

Carol Lee Mouser, 73, of Jackson died Sunday, June 26, 2022, at her home. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home in Cape Girardeau with Pastor Eddie Mouser officiating. Burial will be at Whitener Cemetery in Marquand, Missouri...

Roberta L. Ulrich, 89, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, June 25, 2022, at Fountainbleau Lodge nursing home. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. July 31 at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Funeral service will be at 4 p.m. July 31 at the funeral home. Burial will follow in New Bethel Church Cemetery in Pocahontas...

LaDonna M. "Marie" Gohn, 84, of Jackson passed away Saturday, June 25, 2022, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home. She was born Jan. 5, 1938, to Lawrence and Beulah Clingingsmith Dickerson. She was raised near Neely's Landing and graduated from Oak Hill School. She and Lloyd C. Gohn were married Dec. 18, 1954. Three children were born to their union, Debra Lynn, Terry and Mike. Marie and Lloyd had been married almost 35 years when he passed away Dec. 2, 1989...

Glenn William Barks, 89, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, June 24, 2022, at Chateau Girardeau. He was born Sept. 24, 1932, in Cape Girardeau to William McKinley and Bess Gholson Barks. He and Donna June Allen were married Aug. 13, 1960 in Richmond, Missouri...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. — Darrell Gene Masters Sr., 81, of Marble Hill died Friday, June 24, 2022, at his home. Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at Hutchings Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill. The funeral will be at 6 p.m. Thursday at the chapel. A military honors service will be at later date at Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...

Sharon Harris, 74, of Jackson died Monday, June 20, 2022, at her home. Memorial celebrations will be planned for a later date.

Martin Paul Carlino, 94, of Apache Junction, Arizona, died Wednesday, June 15, 2022, in Jackson. He was born Jan. 17, 1928 in Chicago to Phillip and Madeline Manzella Carlino. He and Arlene D. Carlino were married in 1952 in Chicago. Marty was a son, brother, husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather...

BENTON, Mo. -- William "Bill" Eugene Schlosser, 88, of Benton passed away peacefully Thursday, June 23, 2022, surrounded by his family. Born Jan. 6, 1934, in Illmo, Bill attended St. Augustine Catholic School and married Patricia Ann Urhahn Schlosser on Nov. 20, 1954...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Ray E. Wagoner, son of the late Louis and Viola Wagoner, was born May 12, 1929, in Malden, Missouri, and departed this life Friday, June 24, 2022, at his home in Chaffee at the age of 93. He worked at Florsheim Shoe Company as a foreman for many years and then retired from HWI. which is now Do It Best...

Gleeda Dorothy Bruhl, 95, of Jackson passed away Sunday, June 19, 2022, at her home. She was born Jan. 15, 1927, in Pocahontas, the daughter of Eberhart W. and Edna Schoen Ruehling. Gleeda married Dallas Bruhl Aug. 21, 1948, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Pocahontas. He preceded her in death Oct. 9, 1999...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- James C. "Jim" Schwaninger Sr. passed away peacefully at his home Saturday, June 11, 2022, at the age of 79. He was the loving husband of Marilyn F. Grojean Schwaninger, with whom he shared 56 years of marriage. His last few weeks of his life were highlighted by limited visits from family and friends as he gave way to cancer...

Jerry Raymond Beaver, 75, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, June 19, 2022, at the Lutheran Home. He was born Dec. 13, 1946, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, to Raymond and Dorothy Singmaster Beaver. Jerry grew up in Sterling, Illinois, and graduated from Sterling High School in 1965. He attended college and then enlisted in the United States Navy. He served as a Navy SEAL during the Vietnam War...

PATTON, Mo. -- Terry Conrad, 71, of Patton passed away on Monday, June 20, 2022, at his home. He was born Aug. 13, 1950, in Cape Girardeau, son of David Dean and Dorothy Jean Bollinger Conrad. On June 22, 1969, he married his high school sweetheart, Mary Lou Whitener and after 42 years together, she preceded him in death on April 21, 2012...

KELSO, Mo. -- Steven Schott, son of Anthony "A.J." and Helen Mae Ressel Schott of Kelso, was born May 17, 1965, in Cape Girardeau and departed his life suddenly Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at his home in Kelso. He was a 1983 graduate of Notre Dame High School and was employed by Morley Building Supply. He was a member of Chaffee, Missouri, Masonic Lodge 615...

Shirley Anne Woeltje, 74, of Jackson died Saturday, June 18, 2022, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Shirley's cremation arrangements were entrusted to McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. There is no visitation or service...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Robert E. Dean Sr., 82, of Perryville died Sunday, June 19, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 6, 1939, in Cape Girardeau to Robert B. and Elsie V. Brewer Dean. He and Joan M. Kiefer were married Feb. 14, 1970, at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church...

Darrell Wayne Jones, 56, of Jackson died Monday, June 20, 2022, at his home. Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until service time Friday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Interment will follow in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...

ST. LOUIS -- Dorothy Lee Ross March, 92, died Thursday, March 17, 2022, in St. Louis. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Centenary United Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau. Kriegshauser Brothers Funeral Service of St. Louis was in charge of arrangements...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Gary A. Martin, 74, formerly of Jackson, died Monday, June 13, 2022, in Columbia. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. Myers Mortuary and Cremation Services of Columbia is in charge of arrangements.