Stories from Thursday, December 24, 2015

BROSELEY, Mo. - The Dexter Bearcats varsity girls basketball team entered Wednesday's Lady Royals Classic championship with a full tank of motivation plus a defensive focus after dropping last season's title game to the Neelyville Tigers. "We came here last year and we lost to Neelyville," Dexter senior Melanie McKuin said. ...

Darla Jean Grossman of Dexter, daughter of the late Eugene Gerber and Dorothy Baker Gerber was born on March 29, 1945, in Pensacola, Fla., and died on Dec. 19, 2015, at the age of 70. Darla adored her husband of 51 years, Rick Grossman, and together they raised two strong, beautiful, and successful daughters, Wendy and Kimberly...

Weda Joyce Davis, daughter of the late L. B. Freeman and Muriel Patten Freeman, was born on Aug. 7, 1936, in Spadra, Ark., and died on Dec. 22, 2015, at SoutheastHEALTH Center of Stoddard County in Dexter at the age of 79. Mrs. Davis was a member of the Spadra Baptist Church in Spadra, Ark. She was a homemaker and a resident of Dexter...