ObituariesJuly 7, 1995
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for John Scapino of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Tom Geers will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Saturday...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for John Scapino of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Tom Geers will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Saturday.

Scapino, 32, died Sunday, July 2, 1995, in a boating accident on Kentucky Lake.

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He was born March 19, 1963, in Cairo, Ill., son of John Charles and Wanda Miller Scapino. He and Lynn Johnson were married Oct. 7, 1988.

Scapino was a foreman at Alan Wire in Sikeston. He was a member of Trinity Baptist Church and Wappapello Bass Masters.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Justin Scapino of the home; two daughters, Nikki and Chelsea Scapino of the home; his mother, Wanda Martin of Sikeston; a brother, Robert Scapino of Lombard, Ill.; two stepbrothers, Michael Martin of Huntsville, Ala., Tommy Martin of Memphis, Tenn., and a stepsister, Charlotte Penton of Picayune, Miss.

He was preceded in death by his father and stepfather.

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