Stories from Sunday, September 1, 2019

When Lisa Newcomer was a little girl, her mother worked at Saint Francis Hospital on Good Hope Street in Cape Girardeau and taught nursing at Southeast Missouri State University. Newcomer recalls "being the guinea pig" for nursing students as they checked her reflexes and temperature during pediatric clinics. She says the people her mother worked with became another family to her, and it was this that inspired her passion for health care...

It was on the stairs in a hallway at Cape Catholic High that Carolyn Bohnert, senior vice president of Drury Southwest, saw Bill Bohnert and told her friend, "That's the man I'm going to marry one of these days." And she was right: the two met when Carolyn was a junior, and four years later, they were married...

Today is Sunday, Sept. 1, the 244th day of 2019. There are 121 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On September 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland. On this date: In 1715, following a reign of 72 years, King Louis XIV of France died four days before his 77th birthday...