Stories from Thursday, December 27, 1990

DONGOLA, Ill. - Funeral services for Leona Snedeker, 96, will be held Friday, at 1:30 p.m., at the Crain Funeral Home in Dongola. The Rev. Carl Fisher will officiate. Burial will be in the Dongola American Legion Cemetery. Friends may call of the Crain Funeral Home in Dongola after 6 p.m., Thursday...

The case of a 33-year-old Missouri woman left brain-damaged by an automobile accident seven years ago has captured the thoughts and emotions of many Americans. Nancy Cruzan starved to death Wednesday, 12 days after her hospital feeding tube was removed following a lengthy court battle...

I WOULD LIKE to comment about Gulf Mailbag. Please write to the men and women who are overseas now and have their pictures in the paper. Please send them the things they request in their articles if you can. Write them letters. It really means a lot to them. ...

I JUST WANT to say how dreadful it has been for the Cruzans to have to wait this long to be able to end the life of their daughter in a humane way. As a Missourian of long standing, I am absolutely ashamed of Attorney General Webster's stand in barring the family from permitting their daughter to die. ...

I'M CALLING ABOUT the concern people have about handicap parking. Here are a few facts: One, our local police will begin ticketing illegal parking in handicap spaces about two years after they resolve all those one-headlighted cars. Second, inadequate personality types will always need to park in handicap spaces, for this proves they are just as good or better than anybody else. ...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Bowe, 2573 Lisa, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:32 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1990. Name, Avery Belvin. Weight, 7 pounds, 12 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Bowe is the former Aenna Belvin, daughter of Lola Pruitt Stepp of Sacramento, Calif., and Charles E. Belvin of San Francisco, Calif. She is a homemaker. Bowe is employed as an engineer at Procter and Gamble and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Bowe of Homewood, Ill...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Donald C. Jenkins, 56 years old, of Farmersville, Calif., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, Dec. 24, 1990, at a Visalia, Calif., hospital. He was born March 7, 1934, in Cape Girardeau, son of Harry and Mary Drum Jenkins. His wife, Shirley Fulton, formerly of Cape Girardeau, whom he married here, survives...

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral service for Roy R. Rudisaile of Perryville will be at 2 p.m. today at Young and Sons Funeral Chapel in Perryville. The Rev. Jerry Statler will officiate and burial will be in the York Chapel Cemetery near Longtown. Mr. Rudisaile died Sunday at the Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. He was 67...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Emry E. Stovall, 87, died Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1990 at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Stovall, of 1718 Colonial Drive, was born Aug. 19, 1903 at Crump, the son of J. Hez and Mary Elizabeth Randol Stovall. He married Zula Grayum Dec. 27, 1924 at Jackson. She died April 5, 1989...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Graveside service for Jerry Thomas Buck of Cape Girardeau will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Fairmont Cemetery in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Johnny Thomas will officiate. Mr. Buck died Dec. 19 in East St. Louis, Ill. at St. Mary's Hospital. He was 22...

SIKESTON -- Margaret Gean Goodman Harris of Mountain View, Ark., formerly of Sikeston and East Prairie, died Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1990, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was 63 years of age. She was born Aug. 12, 1927 in Morehouse to the late Dennis David and Tamsy Leora Parker Goodman...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Frank Tindle of Chaffee will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church in Chaffee. The Rev. Charlie Shrum will officiate. Following the funeral, the body will be taken to Huber Funeral Home in Cannelton, Ind., where friends may visit from 11 a.m. Saturday until a 1 p.m. graveside service at the New Cliff Cemetery in Cannelton...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ruthy C. Crosby, of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, Dec. 24, 1990. Arrangements are incomplete, and will be announced later by Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel.

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Marion Brandt, 74 years old, of the Cape Girardeau Nursing Center, died Tuesday, Dec. 25, 1990, at St. Francis Medical Center. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel will announce arrangements later.

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Service for May Bard will be held Friday at 1:30 p.m. at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel, with Rev. S. S. Borum officiating. Burial will be in Green Lawn Cemetery at Villa Ridge, Ill. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4 to 8 p.m. tonight...

CAIRO, Ill. -- June Meisenheimer, formerly of Cairo, died Sunday, Dec. 23, 1990, at Superior Care Center Nursing Home in Paducah, Ky. She was 89 years old. Meisenheimer was a member of the First Christian Church of Cairo. She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond C. Meisenheimer, on March 14, 1971...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Cledith Hawkins, 65, formerly of Cairo Ill., died Tuesday, Dec. 25, 1990, at her home in St. Louis. Hawkins was of the Catholic faith. She is survived by three sons, Kenneth Hawkins, Robert Larry Hawkins and Charles Bruce Hawkins, all of St. Louis; two sisters, Alma Johnson and Belle Lane, both of East Prairie; eight grandchildren and other relatives...

ST. LOUIS - Funeral services for Lt. Col. Paul B. Vaughn, 79, United States Air Force, retired, will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at the George Renner and Sons Funeral Home in Belleville, Ill. The Rev. Jim Hunt and Hugh Fitz will officiate. Burial with full military honors will follow in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, in St. Louis County...

Americans are credited with a great many things but let us accord them some blame; they have short memories. And if those who ignore history are destined to repeat it, taxpayers of this country may be in for more congressional budget shenanigans in 1991. The citizen anger inflamed by this year's fiscal fiasco should be recalled for lawmakers when they convene in Washington next month. Some changes must be made in the way the federal budget is addressed...