Stories from Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Frank J. Luce, 89, of Lexington, Mo., passed away Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, at his home, following a short illness, surrounded by family. Frank Luce was born Sept. 17, 1923, in Lexington, the son of John and Maria Luce. He married Janet Lorenz on Aug. 21, 1948, at Lexington. She preceded him in death Dec. 28, 2000...

Frances A. McDaniel, 87, of Rich Hill, Mo., died Oct. 9, 2012, at the Nevada Regional Medical Center, Nevada. Funeral services will be held Friday, Oct. 12, at 11 a.m., at the Rich Hill Christian Church with burial in the Greenlawn Cemetery, Rich Hill. The family will receive friends Friday, 10 a.m. until service time, at the church...

Kendra and Anthony Eve of Kansas City, Mo., and older siblings Leighton and Teagan are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Keaton Eve. Keaton was born at 3:25 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce and measured 20 and 1/2 inches...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail Inconsistency. It's probably one of the dirtiest words in any coach or player's vocabulary, but it's a word Nevada Lady Tigers head volleyball coach Ashley Thoreson has had to use many times this season. Tuesday night was no exception as the Lady Tigers went into Senior Night against the Lady Trojans of Girard (Kan.) High School and looked like two different teams in a two sets to one loss. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tiger Pit Youth Wrestling Club will be starting up for the year in early November. This Monday, Oct. 15. from 5-7 p.m., they will be holding sign ups in the community center lobby. The cost is $15 and includes a club T-shirt. There are, however, other costs as in all sports that will be incurred...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Middle School volleyball teams went back out on the road Monday night and earned a pair of strong victories in the Tri-County tournaments. At Neosho, the seventh grade squad defeated McDonald County in three sets by the final scores of 25-15, 26-24 and 25-10 -- only dropping the second set. With that win, Nevada moved on to play Neosho in the semifinals Tuesday...

Nevada Daily Mail On July 1, Tim Richmond was bicycling with a friend in the Rolling Acres subdivision when he collided head-on with the other cyclist. The crash broke "every bone in my face, except my jaw," Richmond said in a July 27 interview with the Daily Mail...

Nevada Daily Mail Magician Nate Staniforth will perform in the auditorium of the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts at Cottey College on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. Nate Staniforth began performing magic at colleges and universities while still a student himself, studying theater, history, and religion by day, and performing on other campuses by night. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Heartland Behavioral Health Services, 1500 West Ashland, Nevada, has reached the final days of the $2.7 million renovation that has been in the works since the beginning of this year. With only 37 acute hospitalization beds last year, Heartland turned away 1,505 patients in only 17 months, a press release said. With the expansion -- Heartland will now offer 69 acute short-term hospitalization beds in addition to their 75 specialized residential extended-stay beds...

It has been several weeks, months, since I have shared a personal column with you. Last week I received a challenge from one of our prominent professional leaders asking why I had not been writing my columns and he said that he wants to read more columns. I had fully intended to write one last week, but did not get it done. My reply was that I had to get one written for this week, because this is National 4-H Week, Oct. 7-13, and I consider it to be an important subject...

Six-week-old Lukas Alan Whaley passed away on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, at St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Mo. He was born on Aug. 26, 2012, in Kansas City, Mo., to Lance Alan Whaley and Crystal Gail Modlin Whaley. In addition to his parents of the home, survivors include his grandparents, Otto Modlin, Nevada, Sandy Modlin, Nixa, Mo., Ethel Whaley, Harwood, Mo.; his great-grandmother, Marynell Modlin, Nevada; and several aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews...