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Rebecca Sue (Littleton) Puchbauer
Nov 12, 2024
Rebecca Sue "Becky" Puchbauer, age 61, of Perryville, formerly of Jackson, passed away Tuesday, November 12, 2024, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau. Becky fought a courageous battle with multiple myeloma cancer. The family extends their sincere gratitude to Crown Hospice for the compassionate care and friendship extended to Becky in recent months. She was born December 16,...
Thelma A (Sticht) Haertling
Nov 11, 2024
Thelma A. Haertling, 87, of Jackson passed away Monday, November 11, 2024, at the Monticello House. She was born September 10, 1937, in Farrar, Missouri, daughter of August and Paula Stelling Sticht. She and Willis G. Haertling were married on October 20, 1956, at Salem Lutheran Church in Farrar. They were married for 64 years when he passed on...
Gary Lee Martin
Nov 9, 2024
Gary Lee "Digger" Martin, 68, of Millersville passed away Saturday, November 9, 2024, at his home. He was born November 29, 1955, in Bloomfield, son of Elmer and Vadola Overton Martin. He and Lois DeSpain were married on March 22, 1991, in Puxico. Gary was a 1974 graduate of Puxico High School. He was the first driver for Hull...
Diane Marie (Rohde) Mangels
Nov 7, 2024
Diane Marie Mangels, 70, of Jackson, formerly of Friedheim, Missouri, passed away Thursday, November 7, 2024, at her home.
The third of three children, she was born June 1, 1954, in Cape Girardeau, to Adolph and Gertrude Oehl Rohde. She was baptized June 1, 1954, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Her confirmation was April 7, 1968,...
Velda Ray (Hand) Price
Nov 2, 2024
Velda Ray Price, 94, of Cape Girardeau, passed away Saturday, November 2, 2024, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
She was born September 5, 1930, in Perryville, Missouri. She was a graduate of Perryville High School, where she played pitcher on the girls’ softball team.
Velda and Robert S. “Bob” Price were married...
Leta Betty (Vasterling) Leadbetter
Nov 2, 2024
Leta Betty Leadbetter , 92, of Jackson, passed away Saturday, November 2, 2024, at her home.
She was born June 18, 1932, in Perry County, Missouri, to Martin and Amanda Olga Sander Vasterling. She and Ervin Leadbetter were married November 25, 1950. They had been married nearly 50 years when Ervin passed away May 11, 2000.
...Harold Lee Kasten
Oct 31, 2024
Harold Lee Kasten, 95, of Tilsit passed away Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. The second of five children, Harold was born Feb. 27, 1929, in Cape Girardeau to Oscar Walter and Ella Lydia Neumeyer Kasten. Harold was a 1946 graduate of Jackson High School. He was inducted into the U.S. Army on...
Raymond Joseph Obermann
Oct 31, 2024
Raymond Joseph Obermann, 58, of Jackson passed away Thursday, October 31, 2024, at home. He was born on December 22, 1965, in Cape Girardeau, son of Elmer and Corena Jansen Obermann. He and Lori Ann Horrell were married on April 16, 1988. Ray was a 1984 graduate of Delta high school. He worked for many years for the Little...
Donald Eugene Rees
Oct 31, 2024
Donald Eugene Rees, 92, of Jackson, passed away Thursday, October 31, 2024, at Villas of Jackson. Don was born December 2,1931, in Glennonville, Missouri, to Elbert and Gracey Cossey Rees. After graduating from high school, he left the bootheel cotton fields to join the Navy, where he served honorably from October 5, 1951, to July 15, 1955. During his...
James Edward Beggs
Oct 29, 2024
James Edward "Jim" Beggs, 91, of Jackson passed away Tuesday, October 29, 2024, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born February 22, 1933, in Scott City, son of the late Barney and Ora Greenlee Beggs. Jim served in the United States Army during the Korean War from April 1953 to April 1955. He was a...
Billy O Watson
Oct 27, 2024
Billy Owen Watson, aged 92, passed away peacefully on October 27th, at his home in Jackson. He was born on November 8, 1931, in Charleston Missouri, to Willie and Julia Watson. He attended school in East Prairie. He married to Deborah Biler Watson on October 22,1988. Billy will be missed by all those who knew and loved him as...
Barbara Lee (Schreiner) Wendel
Oct 27, 2024
Barbara Lee Wendel, 91, of Jackson passed away peacefully on October 27, surrounded by family. Barbara was born October 2, 1933, in Jackson to Roy and Nellie Williams Schreiner. She worked at Florsheim shoes, where she met her husband, Bobby Wendel. She and Bobby were married on August 2, 1952, in Jackson. He preceded her in death on April...
Clifford Eugene Miller
Oct 26, 2024
Clifford Eugene "Gene" Miller, age 89 of Cape Girardeau, passed away Saturday, October 26, 2024 at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born December 20, 1934 in Cape Girardeau the son of Clifford and Geneva Goodpasture Miller. Gene graduated high school in St. Louis, Missouri. He served honorably in the United States Marine Corps. After his military...
Michael H. Maguire
Oct 21, 2024
Michael H. Maguire, 72, of Cape Girardeau, unexpectedly passed away Monday, October 21, 2024, at his home.
Michael was born February 3, 1952, in Greensburg, Indiana, to Daniel and Mary Ann Koors Maguire. He was a 1970 graduate of Tipton High School in Tipton, Missouri. He and Sheila Hoss were married April 19, 1980, in Chillicothe, Missouri....
Robert Allan Skowbo
Oct 20, 2024
Dr. Robert Allen Skowbo passed away peacefully at his home in Cape Girardeau, MO on October 20, 2024. Dr. Skowbo was born in Duluth, MN on February 17, 1949, the son of Stuart and Yvonne (Winn) Skowbo. Known to family, friends, and colleagues throughout his life as Bob rather than Robert, he married Carol J. (Lincoln) Skowbo in Cincinnati,...
Freddie Joseph Margrabe
Oct 19, 2024
Freddie Joseph Margrabe, 75, of Jackson, passed away Saturday, October 19, 2024, at Mercy Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 13, 1949, in Gary, Indiana, to Robert Henry and Dorothy (Bell-Roll) Margrabe. Later the family moved to Oran, where Fred was a 1967 graduate of Oran High School. He and Cecilia Essner were married on September...
Jerry Wayne Fitzgerald
Oct 17, 2024
Jerry Wayne Fitzgerald, 77, of Jackson passed away on Thursday, October 17, 2024, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 12, 1947, in Cape Girardeau, the son of Thomas Woodrow and LaVerne Alta Fee Fitzgerald. He and Pura Ramos were married on December 16, 2001. Jerry graduated from Notre Dame High School in Cape Girardeau....
Andy Louis Fellows
Oct 14, 2024
Andy Louis Fellows, 87, formerly of Jackson, passed away Monday, October 14, 2024, surrounded by family, at his home in Imperial, Missouri. He was born July 21, 1937, in Millersville, Missouri, to Edgar and Madonna Reitman Fellows. He and Janet Turner were married August 24, 1958. Two children were born to their union, Allen and Candy. They had been...
Harold F Lowes
Oct 13, 2024
Harold F. Lowes, 84, of Jackson passed away Sunday, October 13, 2024, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born September 2, 1940, in Jackson, son of Emil F.H. and Emma Louise Voges Lowes. He and Maretta Douglas were married on September 30,1961, at Hanover Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau. Harold was a 1958 graduate of...
Jim W Menz, Sr.
Oct 11, 2024
Jim W. Menz, Sr., 71, of Perryville, Missouri, formerly of Bourbonnais, Illinois, passed away Friday, October 11, 2024, surrounded by family, at his home.
He was born March 6, 1953, in Kankakee, Illinois, to Leo "Red" and Pansy Howell Menz. He and Mina Blanchette were married August 14, 1993, at the Exline Sportsman Club in Bourbonnais.
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