OBITUARIES

OBITUARIES

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Cape Girardeau, MO--FUNERAL SERVICE FIRDAY FOR MRS. CHARLES BAHN--The funeral for Mrs. Charles F. Bahn, 47 years old, who died of a heart attack unexpectedly Wednesday forenoon (26 Nov 1975) at her home, 2418 Brookwood, will be held at 1:30 Friday afternoon at First Christian Church.
The Rev. Max Jenkins, pastor, will conduct the service. Burial will be in Memorial Park. The body is at Ford and Sons Funeral Home, where friends may call after 4 this afternoon.
Pallbearers will be Dr. E. L. Bahn Jr., Taylor Bahn, William Bahn, David Bahn, Gene Martin and Robert O. Hirsch.
Mrs. Bahn, the former Miss Betty Bowen Morrow, was born on Nov. 25, 1927, in Little Rock, AR. She and Dr. Bahn were married on Dec. 27, 1949 in Newport, AR, where her parents lived. They moved to Cape Girardeau from New Orleans, LA in 1957, when Dr. Bahn opened his medical practice.
Mrs. Bahn attended grade school in Newport, was in high school at Norfolk, VA, then came to Cape Girardeau when her father was a consulting engineer at Harris Field, now Municipal Airport. She was graduated from Central High School.
Following graduation there she attended SEMO State University and in 1949 was graduated with honors in English from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
A member of First Christian Church, she was active in the Faith Circle, and was a past deaconess. She belonged to the Christian Women's Fellowship, Church Women United and was a member of Chapter BI, P.E.O. Mrs. Bahn was also a member of the Cape County Medical Auxiliary and the Southeast Missouri Hospital Auxiliary.
Surviving are her husband; sons, Charles F. Jr., Christopher, Stuart and Stephen Bahn, all at home; daughter, Miss Martel Bahn, at home; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Morrow, Newport; and an uncle, Martel Bowen, Dallas, TX.

Delta, MO.--ESTELLE KELLEY, 89, of Delta died Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007 at Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee, MO. She was born June 6, 1917 in Little Rock, AR, daughter of George M. and Adaline Pattat Sanders. She and Carl Everett Kelley were married Dec. 23, 1950 in San Diego, CA. She was of the Baptist belief and was a member of National Association of Retired Federal Employees. She is survived by her husband; one grandson, William Buck of Memphis, TN; several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, one son, two daughters, one brother and four sisters. Friends may call from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007 at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau, MO. Service will be at noon Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007 at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau.

Little Rock, AR.--SID MCMATH FORMER ARKANSAS GOVERNOR
Former Arkansas Gov. Sid McMath, who had become a powerful prosecutor and the state's leader by the age of 40, died at his home in Little Rock. He was 91.
Mr. McMath had been examined by doctors last week for an irregular heartbeat. He died late Saturday, his son Phillip McMath said.
After serving in the military during World War II, Mr. McMath began a career in public service, becoming a prosecutor in Hot Springs and winning election to his first of two terms as governor in 1948.
The year Mr. McMath left office, however, a commission was investigating allegations of scandals in the state Highway Department during the McMath administration. Grand juries returned indictments against three members of Mr. McMath's administration. Juries acquitted two of them, and a judge threw out the charges against the third.
Nothing ever directly linked Mr. McMath to any wrongdoing, but he spent more that 50 years living down the allegations.
In his book, "Promises Kept," released in 2003, Mr. McMath chronicled a dozen years of public service that began with his service in the South Pacific and ended with his 1952 defeat for a third term as governor in the midst of the scandal.
"The public remembers the charges, but the exonerations are forgotten," Mr. McMath said in an interview last year with The Associated Press.
Mr. McMath formed a law practice in Little Rock after leaving office. In 1954, he made an unsuccessful attempt to oust Sen. John L. McClellan, a Democrat. Eight years later, he ran again for governor but lost to then-Gov. Orval E. Faubus.
Mr. McMath is survived by his wife, Betty Dortch Russell McMath; sons Phillip, Sandy and Bruce; and daughters Patricia and Melissa. --Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) - October 7, 2003.

Cairo, IL.--CHRISTINE L. SIMMONS, 76, of Cairo, Illinois, died Friday, Nov. 10, 2006 at Daystar Care Center in Cairo. She was born June 25, 1930 in Little Rock, AR., daughter of Robert and Edith Harris. She and Virgie B. Simmons were married Aug. 4, 1945 in Corinth, MS. He died July 27, 1978.
Simmons was a member of the Mighty Rivers Regional Worship Center in Cairo.
Survivors include three sons, Bobby and Anthony Simmons of Charleston, MO, Terry Simmons of Miller City, IL; a daughter, Karen King of Cairo; two brothers, Lonnie Harris of Lake Havasu City, AZ, Doug Harris of Tamms, IL; two sisters, Peggy Slayton and Patricia Irwin of Clarksville, TN; two half sisters, Connie Smith of Chaffee, MO, Jeanetta Wilson of Tamms, IL; a half-brother, Barry Harris; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two brothers and two sisters.
Friends may call from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at Barkett Funeral Home in Cairo. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. The Rev. Larry Frazer will officiate, with burial at Spencer Heights Cemetery in Mounds, IL.

Little Rock, AR.--FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. FRANK WHITE DIES AT 69.
Former Gov. Frank White, one of only two people to defeat Bill Clinton in an election, died Wednesday. He was 69.
Family members said White died at his home. No cause was released.
White, a Republican, ousted Clinton from the governor's office in 1980, after Clinton had served one term as the state's chief executive. Clinton came back to defeat White in 1982.
Clinton then served as Arkansas governor until he was elected president a decade later.
As governor, White was known as the signer of a measure approved by the Legislature requiring Arkansas teachers to include "creation science" in the curriculum if the theory of evolution was also taught.
The law was later struck down as unconstitutional by a federal judge after a trial that drew national attention.
After leaving the governor's office in 1983, White went to work for the Little Rock investment banking firm of Stephens Inc. He later joined First Commercial Bank as a senior vice president, where he served until July 1998, when Gov. Mike Huckabee appointed him state banking commissioner.
White was born Durward Frank Kyle in 1933. His mother remarried and his stepfather -- Frank White -- adopted him. As a youngster, White received an appointment to the Naval Academy. After graduation, he served five years in the Air Force.
Surviving besides his wife are three children from a previous marriage. --Associated Press Archive - May 22, 2003.

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