Recent Obituaries

Melba Joann “Jo” Wickert, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and longtime resident of the Memphis community, passed away peacefully in hospice care at the Putnam County Care Center on October 29, 2025, at the age of 89, after a years-long battle with dementia. Jo was born May 21, 1936, to Joseph William Tiemann and Viola […]

Joseph Charles Manuel Rader, 15, of Memphis died Monday, October 13, 2025 at his home. He was born the son of Jose M. Reyes, Jr., and Amber N. Rader on April 22, 2010 at Scotland County Hospital in Memphis. He was known affectionately as Jojo and was a member of the First Baptist Church in […]

Tommy Adolphus Bagwell, 82, of Memphis, formerly of Easley, SC, stepped out of this world and into the arms of his Lord and Savior on October 9, 2025. He was born in Liberty, SC on June 14, 1943, the son of James Perry and Vera Nancy (Patterson) Bagwell. He was raised on the mill hill […]

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 died on Sunday, July 20, 2025 at Scotland County Hospital in Memphis. 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. She survives. He […]

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 […]