Born May 4, 1922, at Parma, Missouri to William Franklin Smee and Phoebe Gibbs.
He was a member of Friendship Baptist Church in Dexter, Missouri.
Married October 5, 1939, to Elva Gaines at Bloomfield, Missouri, who predeceased after 72 years on December 30, 2011.
Served in U.S. Navy from 1-27-45 until discharge 4-2-46.
He was a former co-owner with his wife, Elva, of George’s Freeze Queen in Bernie, MO. and Grandpa’s Barbeque in Dexter, MO.
Four children born of marriage: Steve and Mary Smee of Calvert City, Kentucky, Stanley and Lois Smee of Jackson, Missouri, Sharon and Rondell Smiley of Bernie, Missouri, and Gary and Linda Smee of Mountain City, Texas.
He is also survived by 9 Grandchildren, 26 Great Grandchildren, and two Great, Great Grandchildren. One grandchild predeceased.
Along with parents he was preceded in death by four sisters: Goldie Stinson, Annie Altom, Molly Black, and Hazel Rennie.
Friends may call at the Rainey Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday May 30, 2017 from 11:30 AM until 1:00 PM. Funeral services will be then conducted at 1:00 PM in the Rainey Mathis
Funeral Chapel with Rev. Lonny Mittag officiating. Interment will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.
In lieu of flowers donations to Friendship Baptist Church of Dexter, MO. Envelopes will be provided at the funeral home.
Odessa Jones, age 96, passed away on May 24, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, MO.
Born April 3, 1921, in Hartman, AR., to the late James and Rosetta Hale Miller.
On December 7, 1940 in Benton, MO., she married Ernie Jones, who preceded her in death on March 15, 2005.
Survivors include: three sons and three daughters-in-law, Albert and Jo Jones of West Plains, MO., David and Theresa Jones of Morley, MO., and Brian and Teresa Jones of Surgionsville, TN.; two daughters and two sons-in-law, Peggy and Don Davis of Dexter,MO., and Linda and James Rhein of Mountain Home, AR.; 18 grandchildren, 34 great grandchildren and 11 great great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by: four brothers, three sister and one son, Larry Jones.
Visitation will be held Friday, May 26, 2017 from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel, in Sikeston, MO.
Funeral service will be held Saturday, May 27, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston, MO., with Bro. David Thompson pastor of Morley First Baptist Church in Morley, MO., officiating.
Interment will follow at Garden of Memories Cemetery in Sikeston, MO.
Pallbearers: Travis Jones, Robert Rhein, Mark Rhein, Melvin Davis, Skyler Rhein and Wyatt Kiger.
Honorary Pallbearers: Kevin Jones, Josh Jones and Quintin Davis
Arrangements under the direction of Nunnelee Funeral Chapel, Sikeston, MO.
Misty Diane Hare, 39 of Dexter died May 19, 2017 in the St. Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Misty was born October 3, 1977.
Leaving to cherish precious memories is her mother, Sandra Hendrix and step-father Stanley Hendrix of Dexter, Missouri; one daughter, Alexis Grither of New Hamburg, Missouri; one brother, Gabriel Hendrix of Dexter; three sisters, Michelle Smith (Doyle), Brenda Solis and Nikki Lathem (Chris); and many other friends and relatives.
Preceding her in death is her father Danny Hare; step-father, Leon Sugg; her maternal grandparents Newell; one uncle Terry Newell; and one aunt Norma Hargrove.
Visitation was held on May 22, 2017 at the Morgan Sifford Funeral Home chapel in Puxico Missouri with the funeral followed at 2 P.M. also in the chapel.
Internment immediately followed in the Dexter Missouri City Cemetery.
Norman Jacob Ridenour passed away surrounded by family at 2:28 a.m. on May 22 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. There is barely a corner of Southeast Missouri left untouched by Ridenour.
He was born on November 3, 1931, on the family home place just outside of Puxico to Louis D and Edna E. Ridenour. He served in the US Air Force during the Korean War from 1951-1958. He was stationed primarily in Barstow, California, in the heart of Death Valley. During that time, he sent his paychecks to his family in Puxico.
He met Theressa Snider at Frosty’s Drive-in at Poplar Bluff. She said she fell in love with his blue eyes and they married on November 21, 1959. Norman and Theressa moved to St. Louis and opened a grocery store in Webster Groves.
The call to home became too great and Norman and Theressa took their young children Clark Jay and Kandi to open the J & K Market in Broseley. The couple brought home a surprise bundle of joy named Penny to the store and soon after Norman contracted a rare lung infection and spent nearly a year in a special ward in the Memphis Veteran’s Administration hospital.
Norman, a man of incredible work ethic, worked odd jobs and picked peaches to support his family, then went to nursing school to become one of the first male nurses in Southeast Missouri. He worked at the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center for 25 years before he retired in 1996. The Ridenours moved to Kinder, before building the house at 402 S. Turnbaugh in Puxico in 1976 where Ridenour spent the rest of his life.
Ridenour was known for his quick and mischievous wit. He was the primary caregiver for his wife, Theressa, for nearly four years before her death in 2013. Of late, he was known for riding his little red scooter about town, and frequented Holloway’s Gas Mart and Bill’s Market in search of a cup of coffee.
Ridenour was the youngest and last surviving sibling of his sister Goldy and brothers Vernon, Louis, Eugene, Bob, and Quinton Ridenour. He is survived by his son Clark Jay Ridenour and wife Beverly, his daughter Kandi Ridenour Speer and her husband Dan and Penny Ridenour , as well as his grandchildren Anthony and Andrew Ridenour and Kelsey, Natalie, and Lyndsey Speer and his great-grandchildren Andon and Nevaeh Ridenour.
Visitation will be Wednesday May 24 at 6 p.m. the Morgan Sifford Funeral Home, 580 Highway 51 in Puxico;
His services will be held on Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
He will be interred with military honors at the Missouri State Veteran’s Cemetery in Bloomfield at 3 p.m.
Ralph Hall, son of the late Cecil Paul Hall and Avis Ione Ragsdale Hall was born on January 7, 1934 in Hornersville, Missouri and departed this life on May 20, 2017 in the Crowley Ridge Care Center of Dexter at the age of 83.
Mr. Hall was a former distributor for Prairie Farm Ice Cream and was a resident of Dexter.
He was united to Helen Gibson at Essex, Missouri. Mrs. Hall survives of the home in Dexter.
Besides his wife, he is survived by one son, Mike Hall of Dexter and one grandson, Michael Ralph Hall.
Private funeral services were conducted under the direction of Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.
