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Born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, James Stephen Hodges was raised in East Prairie, Missouri and was a graduate of East Prairie High School. [3] [1] Following high school he attended Southeast Missouri State University, where he received a bachelor's degree in business administration, and the University of Missouri, where he obtained a Master of Business Administration.
By the mid-1950s, Hirsch expanded into the fledgling television industry with the formation of KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The Hirsch family operated WKRO until 1984, when the station was sold to a local funeral director, William T. "Bill" Crain. Crain operated WKRO for close to ten years.
William Wakefield Baum (November 21, 1926 – July 23, 2015) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau (1970–1973) and Archbishop of Washington (1973–1980) before serving in the Roman Curia as prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (1980–1990) and the major penitentiary (1990–2001).
Cape Girardeau Township covers an area of 70.46 square miles (182.5 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Cape Girardeau.It contains fifteen cemeteries: County Memorial Park, Davis, Fairmon, Hitt, Hitt, Hitt, Lorimier, McGuire, Mount Auburn, Nunn, Old Hanover, Saint Marys, Salem, Shady Grove and Suedekum.
The Cape Girardeau County Transit Authority handles the city's bus and taxi service. Greyhound buses are also available for long-distance transit. Cape Girardeau was home to local rideshare service, carGO technologies that provided rides from anywhere in Cape Girardeau to surrounding cities such as, Jackson and Scott City.
Law's predecessor in Springfield–Cape Girardeau was William Wakefield Baum, another future cardinal. [ 11 ] In 1975, he arranged for the resettlement in his diocese of 166 Vietnamese refugees who arrived in the United States, and were members of a Vietnamese religious congregation , the Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix .
The Old Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau, Missouri was established between 1806 and 1808 by Louis Lorimier. [2] The cemetery is located at 500 North Fountain Street overlooking the Mississippi River. [3] There are believed to be more than 6,500 graves in the cemetery, most of them unmarked.
Blackwood was born on August 4, 1919, in Choctaw County, Mississippi, to sharecropper William Emmett Blackwood and his wife Carrie Prewitt Blackwood.He was the youngest of four children, which included his brother Roy Blackwood (December 24, 1900 – March 21, 1971), sister Lena Blackwood Cain (December 31, 1904 – March 1, 1990) and brother Doyle Blackwood (August 21, 1911 – October 3, 1974).