Extracts of Obituaries from the Cairo Citizen, May 2002:
May 30
Virginia L. Atherton, age 70, of Dongola, died at 2:05 p.m. Sunday, May 26, 2002 at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Linda Lucille Johnson, age 55, of DeSoto, Ill., died at 9:20 p.m. on May 22, 2002 in DeSoto.
Charles H. McCowen, age 79, of Cairo died at 10:10 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2002 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
Mary Jane Myers, age 65, of Vienna, Ill., died at 7:33 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2002 at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Ky.
Vice Admiral (VADM) Edward Patrick Travers, 77, former CEO of the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society died of natural causes in Richmond, Va., on May 22, 2002.
May 23
James H. Hooppaw, age 81, of Evart, Mich., formerly of Mound City, Ill., died Monday, Dec. 10, 2001 at Metropolitan Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Reuben Dale Parker, age 83 of Cairo, formerly of Calloway County, Ky. died at 3:30 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 2002 at Daystar Care Center in Cairo.
William H. "Bill" Beasley, age 55 of Olive Branch, died Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at his home.
Norman A. Chambliss, Sr., age 86 of Louisville, Ky., died Monday, March 11, 2002.
May 16
Barbara Jean Patterson, age 54, of Cairo died at 9 p.m. Monday, May 6, 2002 in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Lon J. Buie, Sr., age 79, of Miami, Fla., formerly of Mound City and Cairo died February 10, 2002 at the Veterans Medical Center in Miami.
Capt. Sid E. Thomas, age 76, of Paducah, Ky., formerly of Cairo died at noon Friday, May 10, 2002 at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky.
Thomas "Tommy" Edward Sterling of Cairo, formerly of Camden, Tenn., died at his daughter's home at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, 2002 in Cairo, Ill.
Elaine E. Palmer Lance, age 84 of Pulaski, Ill., died at 4:29 p.m. Monday, May 13, 2002 at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Dorothy B. Kelley, age 75, of Jonesboro, Ill., died at 8:20 a.m. Monday May 6, 2002 at her residence.
May 9
Dorothy Kelley, age 75, of Jonesboro, died at 8:20 a.m. Monday, May 6, 2002 at her residence.
Roy F. Richmond, age 84, of Heber Springs, Ark., died Sunday, May 5, 2002.
Kenneth E. Long, age 77, of Brainerd, Minn., died Friday, May 3, 2002 at 3:25 a.m. in Woodland Good Samaritan Village in Brainerd, Minn.
Tressie Baccus, age 93, of Karnak, Ill., died at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Ky.
Gerry Jean Palmer Packard, age 64, of Cambridge, Wisc., formerly of Mounds, died Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at her home.
Paul Harding Conn, Sr. died at 7:30 a.m. on May 3, 2002 at the Missouri Veteran's Home in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Harve "Dillie" Calvin, Jr., age 78, of Escondido, Calif., formerly of Mound City and Carbondale, Ill., died at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, May 4, 2002 at the Sunbridge East Care Center in Escondido.
Leslie "Butch" Anglin, of El Paso, Tex. formerly of Cairo died Wednesday, May 1, 2002 in El Paso, Tex.
Ruby Bell Harp Coleson Rogers, age 90 of Cape Girardeau, Mo., formerly of Olive Branch, Ill. and Columbus, Ga. died at 12:25 p.m. Thursday, May 2, 2002 at the Heartland Care and Rehab Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
May 2
Oler Lee Woods was born on June 5, 1900. She died at 12:25 a.m. Monday, April 22, 2002 at Charleston Manor Nursing Home in Charleston.
Jeanette F. Solomon, age 92, of Cairo, died at 5:10 p.m. Monday, April 29, 2002 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Ola M. Lentz, age 104, of Indianapolis, Ind., formerly of Dongola, died Sunday, April 28, 2002 at the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
Isabel Lence, age 83, of Anna, died at 9:45 p.m. Sunday, April 28, 2002 at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Caroline Davidson, 72, age died at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2002, in Select Specialty Hospital in St. Louis, Mo.
Albert V. Watson, age 91, of Olmsted, died Wednesday morning, April 24, 2002, in his home.
Jean E. Jenkins, age 76, of Dongola, died 10 a.m. Friday, April 26, 2002 at her residence.
Robert "Bob" Canada, age 67, died at 7:50 a.m. Saturday, April 27, 2002, in his home in Belknap.
Frederick E. Wilson, age 72, of Cairo, died at 5:17 p.m. Friday, April 26, 2002 at the Daystar Care Center in Cairo.
D.M. Coleman, age 74, of Seattle, Wash., formerly of Elco, died Sunday, April 21, 2002 in Olympia, Wash.
Josephine Minor, age 70 of Karnak, died at 4:23 a.m. Tuesday, April 23, 2002 at Southgate Care Center in Metropolis.
