Stories from Saturday, December 26, 1992

FLINT, Mich. - Funeral services will be held this afternoon for Harley E. Young, 63, of Flint, Mich., who died Wednesday, Dec. 23, 1992 at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. He was born on June 23, 1929 in Oran to Clyde M. and Thelma M. (Beggs) Young. He had resided in Flint since moving from Missouri in 1950. In 1990 he retired from the GM Parts Division in Drayton Plains, with 40 years of service...

Just before he left Missouri to re-establish his residence in Boston, a St. Louis lawyer wrote an angry letter to the Post-Dispatch condemning the city and its residents. It was not the kind of letter an extremely intelligent person would write since it was principally devoted to thoughtless name calling, parochial slurs and regional put-downs...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Derek Summers, 535 Cape Meadows Circle, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:45 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, 1992. Name, Brittani Aleshia. Weight, 7 pounds 15 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Summers is the former Stephanie Johnson, daughter of Charles and Sallie Johnson of St. Louis. Summers is a lab technician at Pearle Vision Center, and is part-time supervisor at United Parcel Service. He is the son of Willie Summers of St. Louis, and the late Versey Summers...

LaJune Rose Hutchins, 56, of Arnold died Friday, Dec. 25, 1992, at St. Anthony's Hospital in Arnold. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.

Nellie Golden, 65, of 1521 Hill Street in Cape Girardeau died Friday, Dec. 25, 1992, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.

BLODGETT -- Charlie R. Deason, 79, of Blodgett, died Thursday, Dec. 24, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 9, 1913, in Blytheville, Ark., son of Walter David and Lela Victoria Riggs Deason. He and Willie Lee McDaniels were married Oct. 20, 1934, in Blytheville...

SCOTT CITY -- Richard "Buddy" Finley, 72, of 1100 Good Hope in Scott City died Thursday, Dec. 24, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 9, 1920, at Fornfelt, the son of Thomas Oliver and Bessie Mulinex Finley. He formerly worked for Midwest Rubber Reclaiming Division in Cahokia, Ill...

BENTON -- Frank V. Klueppel Sr., 98, of Benton died Dec. 24, 1992, at his home. He was a farmer who retired in 1962 and had farmed in the Benton area most of his life. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War I, serving in France in 1918. He was born April 1, 1894, in St. Louis, the son of August and Mary Hercules Klueppel. Both preceded him in death...

C. Trevor Jeffries, 86, of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, Dec. 23, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 3, 1906, at Kell, Ill., the son of Ray and Mae Kell Jeffries. In 1927, he married Mable Gage at Texico, Ill. She survives of the home...

SIKESTON -- Helen Mae McVay, 78, of Sikeston died Dec. 24, 1992, at her granddaughter's home in Louisville, Ky. She was born in Cave in Rock, Ill., on Sept. 24, 1914, to George and Margaret Hahs Sheridan, both of whom preceded her in death. She first was married to Emmett Beeson. He died, and she married Robert J. McVay in Cape Girardeau on Feb. 5, 1946. He preceded her in death on Jan. 15, 1978...

Most successful people are judged by decades of work at a given endeavor. Missouri governors, bound by the state constitution, have at the most eight years to prove themselves. John Ashcroft has had his shot. He is 17 days short of ending his second and final term as Missouri's chief executive. And he has proven himself; he is a leader in every sense of that word...