Recent Obituaries

Memorial services for James R. Beer, Jr., 79, of Memphis will be at 2 p.m., Sunday, August 17 at the Richland Baptist Church. James R. Beer Jr. died August 7, 2025 at Scotland County Hospital in Memphis.

Richard E. Sharp, 82, of LaBelle, formerly of Wyaconda, died Friday, August 1 at the LaBelle Manor Care Center. No services are planned.

Mary Anna Andrews, 91, of Memphis, Missouri and Milton, Iowa, died peacefully on July 18, 2025 at her daughter’s home, where she had been residing and cared for in the last years of her life. She was born August 9, 1933, to Brainerd and Genola (Cunningham) Billups near Memphis. She attended elementary school at Pleasant […]

David Shultz passed away on Sunday, July 20, 2025. He was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on December 7, 1943 to Paul and Virginia (Gunn) Shultz. On March 29, 1969 he married Lee Ellen Seyb at the Newman Center on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, MO. He is survived by his wife, Lee […]

Dollie Katherine Thompson, 91, of Memphis, died July 19, 2025 at the Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, IL. She was born the daughter of Joe Edgar and Maggie Pearl (Andrews) Sanders on June 28, 1934, in Macon County, Tennessee. Katherine lived most of her life in Tennessee before marrying Artis “Boots” Thompson and […]

Donald James “Jimmy” Norton, 63, of Gorin, passed away June 18, 2025 at his home. He was born June 3, 1962, the son of Donald G. Norton and Betty J. (Archer) Norton in Columbia, Missouri. Jimmy grew up in Gorin, where he also attended school. In his free-time you could find Jimmy in the woods […]

James Lee Fincher, 95, died on May 22, 2025, at his home in Fountain View Village in Fountain Hills, AZ. He was born on October 29, 1929 in Waterloo, Iowa, the son of Wilma and Elton Fincher of Downing. He lived in Iowa, Missouri and Tennessee before moving to Scottsdale Arizona in 2017 and then […]

Norma (Brown) Fincher was born on May 18, 1933 and passed away on January 11, 2024, at her home in Fountain View Village in Fountain Hills, Arizona. Norma was born in Memphis to Lena Belle (Jeffrey) and Calvin Brown. She lived in Ottumwa & Agency, Iowa and Memphis, Tennessee, before moving to Scottsdale, Arizona in […]

Phillip C. “Bud” Cone, 83, of Memphis died Sunday, April 27, 2025 at the Oak Ridge Assisted Living in Richmond, MO. He was born the son of Raymond Thomas and Lois Helena (Stabler) Cone on September 28, 1941, at their home in rural Scotland County. Phil graduated from Memphis High School in 1959 and then […]

Private family services will be held for Michael Jay Smith, 57, of Memphis. Michael Jay Smith died Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at his home.