Stories from Saturday, April 9, 2011

Wanda Lucille Wright, 89, Bronaugh, Mo., passed away on Friday, April 8, 2011, at Moore-Few Care Center, Nevada, Mo., following an illness of several weeks. She was born Dec. 10, 1921, in Bronaugh, to Lewis Henry Smith and Lucy Mae Hawkins Smith. She married Robert S. Wright on Sept. 2, 1944, in Fort Scott, Kan., and he preceded her in death on April 21, 1971...

Margaret Ruth Shields Snow, 88, Lamar, Mo., passed away Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at 6:05 a.m., at the Barton County Memorial Hospital in Lamar. Margaret was born March 17, 1923, in Center, Mo., to Roy Clifford and Daisy Madge (Stuller) Shulse. She was a Center High School graduate. She played basketball and was extremely proud of her team...

Dorothy Lorene Klopfenstein, 94, of Mound City, Kan., died Friday, April 8, 2011, at The Residencies at Pleasanton, Kan. Services will be held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, April 12, at the Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home, Mound City, Kan. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., Monday, April 11, at the Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home. ...

Brian and Cristin (Houdeshell) Hill of Cheyenne, Wyo., and older siblings Tristan, Chase, Devon and Carter Hill are proud to announce the birth of their baby son and brother, Easton Cash Hill. Easton was born at 8:37 p.m., Monday, March 21, 2011, at Cheyenne Medical Center, Cheyenne, Wyo. He weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces, and measured 20 and 1/2 inches...

Fort Scott, Kan. -- With multiple sales tax questions and several city council and school board seats open, the citizens of Bourbon County made their voices heard this past week. More than 23.5 percent of the county's nearly 10,500 voters made their way to the polls to cast ballots for city officials, school boards and sales taxes. ...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- A local weekly summer reading program, scheduled to begin in June, is designed to keep area youth reading and learning throughout the summer. Area children and families are invited to join the Fort Scott Elementary Schools Parent-Teacher Organization and the Fort Scott Public Library for the Summer Library Program and participate in several fun programs and events planned for children up to 11 years of age...

Redistricting is a political hurricane that's liable to blow away anything not nailed snugly down, especially general assumptions. Southwest Missouri's representation in the 97th General Assembly next year in Jefferson City is still way up in the air with the recent naming of state House and Senate reapportionment commissions; but there was a positive development with last week's House and Senate recommendations to leave the federal 4th Congressional District largely intact...

SHE, AGELESS win awards from national organization

Lloyd and Patricia Corbin, of Dederick, Mo., announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Corbin, to Brock Daulton, son of Bruce and Carol Daulton, of Osceola, Mo., and Sharon and Steve Young, of El Dorado Springs, Mo. The bride-to-be is a graduate of El Dorado Springs High School and will graduate from Missouri State University with a master's degree in social work in May 2011...

Fifty family and friends were present to help Virginia Dark, of Nevada, celebrate her 90th birthday on March 26, 2011, at the Nevada community center.

A card shower is being held in honor of W.W. and Zola Mayfield, who will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on April 14. Cards may be addressed to 811 S. Main, Nevada, MO 64772.

While waiting for the turkey season to open and taking a break from hunting morel mushrooms -- and after hearing fish stories about the white bass running up the river -- Tom Ward of Joplin decided to give the whites a try and was glad he did. Along with a fishing friend, Jack Peterson, they headed up the Little Sac River off Stockton lake. It didn't take long to tell the fishing was or had been good...

NEVADA -- Nevada High School's need to join a conference again became more urgent after the Missouri High School Activities Association board of directors voted last weekend to change the format of the football playoff system starting in 2012. The 2011 season district playoff format will remain unchanged...