Semo area brief death notices and local incidents
Obituary notices report ILMO Gebhardt Martin 67 bakery owner died of apoplexy last Wednesday. Funeral at St Josephs Church. Vanduser hosts Christmas Eve center with Santa for all children. Dutchtown fire destroys four buildings. losses estimated 5000 to 6000. Jackson funeral services for Robert F Meyer 73, lifelong farm laborer. Jerry Myers 68 USFS employee dies in truck wreck near Fredericktown. Birdie Lee Sales Morley dies after long illness. Perryville deer found dead near Highland. suspected cross from Bollinger county.
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Ilmo—Gebhardt Martin
St. Joseph's Church
Albert Weinig
Lightner Cemetery
Tmo
Perryville
Highland
Martin Renaud
Bollinger County
Eo Prost
Ste. Genevieve
Jackson
Robert F. Meyer
Governor appoints new circuit judge Norwine D Houser
Governor Forrest C Donnell appointed Norwine D Houser of Perryville to the 27th Judicial Circuit to succeed the late Frank Fenwick. Houser, a Republican, had been serving briefly as provisional judge. Fenwick died at Southeast Missouri Hospital Cape Girardeau and services were held in Perryville with interment in Home Cemetery.
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Forrest C. Donnell
Norwine D. Houser
Perryville
Frank Fenwick
Houser
Fenwick
Southeast Missouri
Cape Girardeau
Presbyterian Church
Spider bite illness fades. Mrs Moll to return soon
Mrs Myrtle Moll, confined at home the past week after a spider bite at Shainberg's Store, was up briefly yesterday. A sting prompted medical care and a turning point came earlier this week with a cable from her 20 year old son Ray Moll in Panama saying everything is fine. she hopes to resume work later this week.
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Myrtle Moll
Shainberg’s
Rites Held in Kentucky for Sikestonian's Mother
Funeral services were held at a Guthrie Baptist church for Mrs. Watkins Northington mother of Sikeston's Wm. Northington. She died Sunday in Athens Georgia after six weeks illness. Interment was in Clarksville Tennessee. Survived by five sons Walton Watkins Thad and Paul four others and two daughters Betty Ann and Billy. Family members from Sikeston Blodgett attended.
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Baptist Church
Guthrie
Watkins Northington
Wm. Northington
Sikeston
Athens
Clarksville
Tenn
Northington
Walter Wellman
Wellman
Walton
Watkins
Thad
Paul
Hawaii
Betty Ann
Billy
Ben F. Marshall Jr
Blodgett
Funeral Rites Held for Kentucky Relative in Columbus
Mrs. Anna Winchester and her niece Mrs. C D Matthews III attended funeral services Sunday afternoon at Columbus Episcopal church for Miss Kathie Wright a cousin of Mrs Matthews who died Friday afternoon at her home in Columbus of uremic poisoning Survived by one sister Mrs Elizabeth Milton Kilgore of Columbus Kentucky.
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Anna Winchester
C. D. Matthews III
Columbus
Kathie Wright
Episcopal Church
Miss Wright
Sikeston
Elizabeth Milton Kilgore
Funeral services for Nellie Beasley in Cape Girardeau
Mrs. Elodie Sheppard attended the funeral of her sister in law Nellie Beasley 67 at First Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau on Tuesday afternoon. Rev H H McGinty conducted the service and interment followed in City Cemetery at Jackson. Attendees from Sikeston included Mrs Walter Rayburn and Mrs Charles Lindley.
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Elodie Sheppard
First Baptist Church
Cape Girardeau
Nellie Beasley
H. H. McGinty
Jackson
Walter Rayburn
Charles Lindley
Sikeston
Women narrowly escape serious injury in highway crash
Mrs. S. W. Barton and Mrs. H. N. Craughon were driving a Cadillac toward Memphis when a truck owned by Parker Whitsey of Caruthersville and driven by a Black man suddenly cut into their path near Caruthersville. Both women suffered only minor cuts and bruises as their car sustained heavy damage.
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S. W. Barton
H. N. Craughon
Memphis
Caruthersville
Barton
Parker Whitsey
Notice of Final Settlement in Scott County Missouri
H L Smith administrator of Lillian A Smith deceased will make final settlement of the estate at the Probate Court in Benton Scott County Missouri on February 9 1942. The administrator requests readiness for settlement at the next term.
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H. L. Smith
Lillian A. Smith
Scott County
Missouri
Benton
Said County
Conran Public Schools Celebrate Christmas and War Reflections
Monroe Rhodes reports Conran consolidated school marks its third month since December 5 with 461 pupils this month. Christmas program set for December 19 at 1:30 pm. holidays December 24 to 29. New pupil Iris Bailey joins. plays directed by Ruth Dowdy and others. Faculty news includes AAA educator Mrs. Ralph presenting powdered eggs and milk and a discussion on their use. A feature essay argues education amid war, urging ongoing schooling and democracy against Hitlerism, with echoes of 1776 and 1918.
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Monroe Rhodes
Conran Consolidated School
Conran
Lee’s
Ralph
AAA
Iris Bailey
Santa Claus
Ruth Dowdy
Thelma Kimes
Audrey Schulz
Mother Goose
Eula Kimes
Macel Dockery
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Semo News
Fredericktown
Jerry Myers
United States Forest Service
Highway 67
Myers
Vanduser
Chaffee
Birdie Lee Sales
Morley
State Hospital
Hillary Patterson
Miss Sales
Clyde
St. Louis
Tlah Johnson
Dutchtown
Moore-Harris Abstract Company
Benton, Missouri
L. Spencer
Chamber OF Commerce
Kentucky
Sikestonian
AH. L. Smith
News OF
Conran Public Schools
Napoleon
Hitler
Lane
Permalux
Grand Rapids
Rembrandt
General Motors
the Lair Company
Center Street
Sikeston, Missouri
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