Stories from Saturday, September 4, 2010

Firefighters from several departments battled a blaze for several hours on a mobile home in Cape Girardeau (approx 150 E St. Cape Girardeau, MO 63701). No one was injured.

Firefighters from several departments battled a blaze for several hours on a mobile home in Cape Girardeau (approx 150 E St. Cape Girardeau, MO 63701). No one was injured.

Watching the river

Our smallest cat, Dash, loves to curl up against either of his two brothers.

my son's Yorkie, Rowdy

In the pre-dawn darkness, Lineman Mark Perry guides a V-22 Osprey into it's parking position on the ramp at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport.

Fueled and ready to rock. One of the two V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Transports that stopped at KCGI for an early morning refuel.

Rick Guilliams, 25, has been named Jackson city clerk, replacing Dean Crites, who has decided to leave city government to pursue his studies at Southeast Missouri State University. Much of the ground west of the lake at the Cape County Park, on the north side of Highway 61, has been plowed as part of a reseeding project designed to establish a new carpet of grass there before next spring...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. -- The rain clouds stayed away long enough for the Delta Center Field Day to go off without a hitch on Thursday. "It looks like it's been another successful field day," said Thomas E. "Jake" Fisher, superintendent of the Delta Center...

Destiny Nicole Grebing, 7, daughter of Barbara Grebing of Jackson, died Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, at Barnes-Jewish Children's Hospital in St. Louis. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.

Dr. Gary Wayne Kielhofner, 61, of Chicago died Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, at Chicago's Mercy Hospital after a brief illness. The Oran, Mo., native became a groundbreaking researcher and worldwide authority in the field of occupational therapy. His writings, including his book "Conceptual Foundations of Occupational Therapy," shaped clinical rehabilitation practices around the world and were translated into dozens of languages...

Patricia J. Schreiner, 71, of Jackson passed away Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, where she was admitted Tuesday, Aug. 31. She was born July 15, 1939, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Curtis and Corrine Kaufmann Clippard. She and Don Schreiner were married June 16, 1957, in Jackson...

THOMPSON, Mo. -- Melvin M. Wichern, 76, of Thompson died Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, at his home. The funeral will be at noon Monday at Pickering Funeral Home in Mexico, Mo., with the Rev. Joel Krueger officiating. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Marvin L. Burton Sr., 70, of Chaffee died Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, at Chaffee Nursing Center. He was born March 17, 1940, at Bayliss, Ark., son of Joseph Pleasant Hampton Burton and Maggie Ann Cochran Dodd Burton. Marvin was owner and operator of Burton Pest Control in Morley, Mo., and later worked for Right-Way Pest Control in Morley. Marvin loved camping, hunting and fishing with his son and grandchildren...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Bobby Lee Caldwell, 80, of Savannah, Ga., passed away peacefully at his home Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. He was born in Lutesville, Mo., and graduated from Woodland High School in Lutesville. He and Rosemary Sue Smith of Lutesville were married July 9, 1949...