Stories from Monday, December 10, 1990

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Willis Andrew (Trey) Springer III, 1810 Thilenius, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Vincent's Catholic Church. The Rev. Ken Grass will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 5-9 p.m. today...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Shawna Osman of Chatham will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Cherry Hill Baptist Church in Springfield. Burial will be in Chatham Cemetery. Friends may call 4-8 p.m. today at the church. Announcement courtesy of Crain Funeral Home in Dongola...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Mrs. Jean A. Sachse, 1224 Marilyn, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. Dr. Charles Grant will officiate, with entombment in Memorial Park Mausoleum. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-9 p.m. today...

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-slivered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,...

Dear Editor: Don Pritchard's Advertorial in your Dec. 9 newspaper contained a misquote of a letter I had written to the Assistant City Attorney about the Louis Jordan/John Martin dispute. Don Pritchard quotes me as saying that I had spoken with Patrolman Louis Jordan and with John Martin and found them both "unbelievable." Actually, in my letter I said I found them both believable. ...