Stories from Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Keith C. Heinrich, 59, of Nevada, died early Sunday, April 24, 2011, at the Nevada Regional Medical Center. Keith was born on April 2, 1952, in Oak Park, Ill., to Clifford and Shirley (Brach) Heinrich. He grew up in Bensonville and Elmhurst, Ill. He had lived the past 25 years in Cape Girardeau, Mo., until recently moving to Nevada...

Jennie L. Rhodes, 80, Sheldon, Mo., passed away on Sunday, April 24, 2011, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada. She was born April 14, 1931, in Marshall Town, Iowa, to Adelbert H. Fields and Leona Irene Eastman Fields. She married Edward Rhodes on April 24, 1971, in Reno, Nev,, and he preceded her in death on July 28, 2010...

Amy and Brad Diehl of Butler, Mo., and older siblings Paige and Jordan Switzer and Andrew Diehl, are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Cooper David Diehl. Cooper was born on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center...

Editor's note: this is the second installment in a series of stories about the Nevada Police Department's Citizen Police Academy. Nevada Daily Mail reporter Rusty Murry has been assigned the task of attending the academy and reporting back as a participant, not just an observer...

Nevada Daily Mail Members of the Northeast Vernon County Future Business Leaders of America Chapter recently attended the 2011 Missouri FBLA Leadership Conference April 17-19, in Columbia, and Spencer Hoagland will attend the National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Fla., in June...

By Neoma Foreman Special to the Daily Mail Jay Skidmore graduated with a class of 20 from Walker High School in 1951. The school annual lists his nickname, Larry Skidmore. He washed windshields and pumped gas for a year at Cliff Tow's Standard Service Station on U.S. Highway 71 near the underpass in Nevada...