All Obituaries

Dr. Frederick James Burke, Sr. was born September 23, 1928 to the parents of Henry and Elmira Burke. Frederick was the second of five children. He was baptized at an early age at New Hope Baptist Church formerly in Brentwood, MO. Frederick Burke attended Brentwood public schools and graduated from Sumner High School in January 1948. Growing up, in high school, college and into adulthood his hobbies were playing the trumpet in the concert and marching bands, baseball, tennis, table tennis...

Roberto Roshaud Clemente Dixon was born April 22, 1980 to Robert Dixon and Mary Crutchfield. Affectionately known as Burdy he was the third child, his sister Raquel preceded him in death.   Burdy was raised by his Grandparents Leon and Josephine Dixon who both preceded him in death. He was educated in the St. Louis Public School system. At a young age any time you saw him you saw his basketball, which means you saw Shenea (Nook) his personal driver to school, basketball practice,...

MaKaya Renee Dixon was born June 15, 2015, to Amanda and Roberto Dixon, Sr. in Saint Louis Missouri. MaKaya was born after her father and I suffered through a late term miscarriage and one stillbirth. Positioning her as my Angel Baby, and she truly was. She was a true blessing that I prayed several years for; God answered my prayers and gave her to me when I needed her the most. I went through so much to bring her into this world but would gladly do it all over again. The first moment I held...

Live the life you want to live. Do the things in life that you want to do. It’s your life you have to live it. I promise at any moment something can happen and your life could be taken or changed. I hear a lot of people say, don’t do that, ain’t no money in that. Why you want to do that... everybody do that? What makes you better than everybody else? That’s just a pipe dream. Anyway! Haters gone hate! Definitely the people that don’t have vision or...