“Love people, cook them tasty food,” is probably the best way to sum up the life of the late Sandra Jean (Liley) Eastman. Born August 1, 1963, to Lyndall and Daphine Liley, she was raised as a true-blue Jacksonian. After nearly a two-year battle with colorectal cancer, Sandy went to be with her Lord and Savior on June 16, 2019. Sandy was a 1981 graduate of Jackson High School.  She attended college in Carbondale, Illinois and Huston, Texas, before returning home to the...

Tunnie L. Hitchcock, 89, of Jackson, passed away Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at his home. A private graveside service was held at New Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery near Pocahontas. Interment was at New Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery near Pocahontas. Arrangements made by McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.

Cherish Sky Huskey entered this world on July 2, 2019 and passed a just a short time later on July 2, 2019 at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. To cherish her memory, she leaves her parents, Charles William and Billeigh Nathalene Burke Huskey and a two big brothers, Xander and Charles Eli Huskey. A memorial service will be held at 5:00 pm on Saturday, July 13, 2019, at Dennis Scivally Park, 2428 West Cape Rock Drive in Cape Girardeau. Memorial contributions may be made to Billeigh...

Patsy Pickett, 74, of Jackson, passed away Saturday, July 13, 2019, at the Monticello House in Jackson.  She was born March 19, 1945, in Arkansas, to Sylvester and Marie Mitts Ross.  She was a graduate of Zalma High School. Patsy resided several years in Sikeston, Missouri, and worked in banking.  She struggled many years with a pituitary tumor.  She moved to Jackson in the 1990’s and became a member of Christ Gospel Church of Millersville. Loving survivors...

Marine veteran, Timothy Alan Charland, 71, passed away Friday, June 21, 2019, at his home in Jackson. A committal service and military rites will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, July 12, 2019, at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield, Missouri, with the Rev. Jim Stroman officiating. Cremation accorded by McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.

Patty J. Brooks, age 88, of Jackson passed away July 9, 2019 at The Villas of Jackson in Jackson. She was born July 5, 1931 in Blytheville, Arkansas daughter of Thomas Lydle and Gurie Manley Hawkins Sr. Patty and Dale Penny were married July 1950. In November of 1960 she and Robert Eugene Niblack were married, he passed away in June of 1979. She married Don Jerome Brooks on June 6, 1981 and he passed away June 22, 2006. Patty graduated Perryville high school in 1949. She worked 33 years...

Ronald James “Cooter” Schwent, 64, of Jackson, Missouri, passed away Saturday, July 6, 2019 at St. Francis Medical Center, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, surrounded by his family and friends. He was born to the late Welton T. and Frances “Billie” (nee Link) Schwent on September 14, 1954 in Red Bud, Illinois. Ron married Marjorie A. Gosche on April 23, 1988 in New Hamburg, Missouri. He attended St. Mary’s Catholic School in Chester and graduated from Chester High...

Dr. Gordon Marlow Nunnelly passed away on Saturday afternoon, July 6 after a fall at his home near Dutchtown.  Dr. Nunnelly was born on April 21, 1927 in New Florence, Missouri.  He was the second son of Ethol and William Gordon Nunnelly and the younger brother of Wilford Eugene Nunnelly.  His high school years were spent filling in for servicemen who were called to duty during World War II. He worked at Dawson’s Clover Farm Store as a stock boy and clerk and as a...

Dr. Thomas Howard Kiehne, 74, of Jackson, formerly of Ste. Genevieve, passed away suddenly Thursday, July 4, 2019, in Jackson. He was born August 20, 1944, in St. Louis, Missouri, the only child of Howard and Dorothy Goehring Kiehne.  His father, Howard, was killed in the line of duty, February 28, 1945, during World War II in the European Theater. His mother later married Raymond W. Willer, and two children were born to their union, David and Jane. Thomas and Mary Louise Weber were...

Allene Reaves, 93, formerly of Jackson, passed away peacefully in Gordonville, Missouri, on Thursday, July 4, 2019 at the home of her nephew and his wife, Scott and Rebecca Wright, where she resisded the last five years. She was born September 6, 1925, in Cape Girardeau County, daughter of Elmer and Anna Nitsch Wright. She and Harry David Reaves II were married for over 45 years.  A son was born to their union, Harry “David” Reaves III.   Allene was a 1943 graduate of...