Stories from Wednesday, June 6, 2001

I would love to have big, beautiful flowers growing in and around my landscape right now. If I had followed Mother Nature's seasonal order, I would have planted seedlings in early spring, protected them from our late frosts, watered, fertilized and weeded. Unfortunately, spring is such a busy time for me that I didn't get around to planting when I needed to...

ADVANCE, Mo. -- Portia Ellis Dale, 89, of Advance died Monday, June 4, 2001, at her home. She was born May 2, 1912, at Bloomfield, Mo., daughter of the Rev. W.B. and Myrtle Whitledge Parrott. She and Charles Ellis were married May 11, 1928, at Essex, Mo. He died July 23, 1968. She and Alfred Dale were married in 1974. He died Feb. 5, 1989...

Fred C. Lee, 74, of Cape Girardeau died unexpectedly Sunday, June 3, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Oct. 18, 1926, in Cape Girardeau County, son of William and Emma Cato Lee. He and Gearldine Eulinberg were married in 1947. Lee was a 1945 graduate of John S. Cobb High School. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He received the Meritorious Unit Award, Army of Occupation Medal (Japan), Victory Medal and Asiatic-Pacific Service Medal...

WARE, Ill. -- Roy M. Jackson, 70, of Ware died Monday, June 4, 2001, at his home. He was born Oct. 7, 1930, at Whitewater, Mo., son of Walter and Lorene Stroder Jackson. He and Neda Johnson were married June 11, 1950, in Pocahontas, Ark. Jackson was a truck driver most of his life...

Richard McClarmey of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, June 5, 2001, at his residence. This is an announcement by Lorberg Funeral Chapel.

ADVANCE, Mo. -- Lois O. Shell, 89, of Advance died Monday, June 4, 2001, at Bentonville Manor in Bentonville, Ark. She was born Jan. 22, 1912, near Marble Hill, Mo., daughter of Avery and Myrtle Wycoff Hahn. She and Merl Shell were married Nov. 7, 1934. He died April 18, 1950...

THEBES, Ill. -- Funeral for Edna Crisp of St. Louis, formerly of Thebes, will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms, Ill. The Rev. Jimmie Monahan will officiate. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery at Thebes. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday from 11 a.m. until service time...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Paul A. Dodd, 94, died Tuesday, June 5, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 8, 1907, in Jonesboro, son of Addison Byron and Ethel Rushing Dodd. He and Helen Brown were married Jan. 29, 1926, in Granite City, Ill. She died July 18, 1997. Dodd had been a painter...

DELTA, Mo. -- Lucille Kidd, 82, died Monday, June 4, 2001, at the family home in Delta. She was born Sept. 10, 1918, near Whitewater, Mo., daughter of the late Charles Pinkney and Ora Mollenhour Rhodes. She married Lawrence W. Kidd July 2, 1946. He survives...

ANNISTON, Mo. -- Olen Robert Brown, 76, of Anniston died Tuesday, June 5, 2001, at his home. McMikle Funeral Home at Charleston, Mo., is in charge of arrangements.

SCOTT CITY, Mo. -- Hazel Gertrude Mayfield, 96, formerly of Scott City, died Tuesday, June 5, 2001, at Delmar Gardens Nursing Home in Creve Coeur, Mo. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Scott City is in charge of arrangements.

WYATT, Mo. -- Graveside service for Norma L. Nelson of St. Louis will be held at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at IOOF Cemetery in Charleston, Mo. The Rev. Sandra Schaller will officiate. Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston, Mo., is in charge of arrangements...

Shaded from the summer sun by a canopy of tall trees, Al Stoverink strides across grassy hills that slope down to the Mississippi River. This is fertile ground for future hiking and biking trails that will transform part of the tree-filled Southeast Missouri State University River Campus property into a riverfront park, says Stoverink, director of facilities management for the school...

The Missouri Supreme Court Tuesday set a July 11 execution date for Jerome Mallett, who has been on death row for 15 years for killing a Missouri State High Patrol trooper. Mallett is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Potosi Correctional Center, Attorney General Jay Nixon said...

Tim Bank's luck at fishing lately has been like the Mississippi River -- up and down. "This is the second time I've been out here, and I still haven't caught anything," said Banks, who went with a friend to the Diversion Channel on Tuesday. "I need to get back out on the river."...

Is it just me, or is the Discovery Health Channel having an unusual number of documentaries on obesity these days? No wonder. They've got a ready-made audience. Practically every female I know has flirted with this diet or that. Some of us are hard-core dieters we haven't met one we won't try. And then there's my friend Kay, who explains away her extra 10 pounds by saying she's successfully fighting anorexia...

JACKSON, Mo. -- Evan Henry, 10, of Jackson will represent Southeast Missouri in the 2001 All-American Soap Box Derby July 23 through 29 in Akron, Ohio. "I'm really excited," Evan said. "I'm really looking forward to spending the week in Akron and then racing."...

Former Missouri Teacher of the Year Carol Reimann won't teach reading, writing or arithmetic when she assumes new job duties at Southeast Missouri State University next month. Instead, Reimann, who has taught first grade for the past 33 years at Clippard and May Greene schools, will serve as a teacher for teachers in her new role as assistant director of the Southeast Regional Professional Development Center...

Three suspects in a Western Union caper are in custody and facing stealing charges, and police were still searching for a fourth late Tuesday. Businessman Edward Allen Wells, 26, and Sonja Renee Ezell, 18, both of Jackson, Mo., were arrested Monday in Victoria, Texas. Police arrested Thomas John Fleeman, 19, of East Cape Girardeau, Ill., Sunday in New Orleans...

JACKSON, Mo. -- A 66-year-old-man died Tuesday when the sides of a 15-foot trench for a sewer pipe caved in and buried him, officials said. The man, whose name was withheld pending notification of relatives, was an employee of Monroe Plumbing and Heating in Cape Girardeau, said Steve Baugh, public information officer with the Jackson Fire Department...

Southeast Missouri State University pitcher Todd Pennington, the NCAA Division I earned-run average leader this year, did not have his name called during Tuesday's opening 20 rounds of the Major League Baseball Draft. Pennington, a junior right-hander who went 12-2 with a 1.33 ERA this season, was considered to have an outside chance at being selected on the draft's first day...

I'M CALLING about Timothy McVeigh now wanting to delay his execution. To me, he deserves to be dead already. He's killed people. I think he ought to try to be at least a little bit of a man and take his punishment. THREE CHEERS for the Bush family. When Jenna Bush gets caught in a misdemeanor, they don't go out and hire a roomful of people to spin the truth and tell lies to reporters. ...

Memorial Day weekend accidents proved fatal to 12 persons in Missouri, including three who were killed in separate accidents involving all-terrain vehicles. A 23-year-old man was killed when his ATV collided with a pickup truck in Sullivan County. A 14-year-old girl who was a passenger on an ATV died after the vehicle went off a road and hit a tree in Jefferson County. And a 36-year-old man was killed when the ATV he was driving on a McDonald County road struck a large dog...

Most of the people who benefit from operation of the University of Missouri's research reactor probably never will know how close it came to being shut down, because the federal Energy Department had placed restrictions on shipments of spent nuclear fuel from the reactor...

To the editor: I read Monday's headlines in disbelief. This planning and zoning thing is driving the 30 percent or less who voted for it crazy. When we had planning and zoning, nothing was done to stop the dumping on County Road 255. The Cape Girardeau County Commission says it wanted to avoid trash and rubbish that would attract rats and spread disease. When was the last time a rat transmitted a disease to someone in this county? Probably the late 19th century. This is a scare tactic...

Twin sons to Don and Kristin Ryan of Highland Ranch, Colo., Porter Birthing Center in Denver, Colo., Sunday, May 27, 2001. Mark Robert was born at 8:58 p.m. and weighed 7 pounds 2 1/2 ounces. Grant David was born at 8:59 p.m. and weighed 5 pounds 5 1/2 ounces. ...

One of America's favorite foods is chocolate. Considering America ranks third in the world in chocolate consumption, we still certainly consume our fair share. And one Jackson, Mo., reader says she lives to eat chocolate. Most desserts she makes are chocolate in nature. She wanted to share a couple of recipes with you today to help satisfy the irresistible cravings that come with loving chocolate...

I would love to have big, beautiful flowers growing in and around my landscape right now. If I had followed Mother Nature's seasonal order, I would have planted seedlings in early spring, protected them from our late frosts, watered, fertilized and weeded. Unfortunately, spring is such a busy time for me that I didn't get around to planting when I needed to...