Stories from Friday, December 28, 2012

Harry P. Walker, son of Charles H. and Erma Ann (Price) Walker, was born Aug. 9, 1933, near Rockville, Mo. He passed away quietly at his home in Appleton City, Dec. 26, 2012, at 79 years of age. Harry grew up in the Rockville and Appleton City, Mo., area. In 1951, he graduated from Appleton City High School. He was united in marriage to Naomi Jean Huey Feb. 18, 1952, and they were blessed with three children...

Luella S. Rutledge, 90, Nevada, died on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at Christian Health Care in Nevada. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada. View obituary and send condolences on line at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...

Esther A. Johnson, 92, died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at the Moore Few Care Center in Nevada. Services will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott.

Briana Householder and Christopher Shipp of Nevada, Mo., and older siblings Jayden and Karlie, are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Bentley Eugene Shipp. Bentley was born at 7:01 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces, and measured 20 and 1/2 inches...

Nevada Daily Mail Publisher We at The Nevada Daily Mail have a lot to be thankful for this year and every year -- and a big part of that is you, our readers and advertisers. In a season of giving thanks and closing out the old year and welcoming the new, it shouldn't be unusual for us to say we appreciate you...

Dear Editor: My Uncle Bob (Robert H. Mabry) recently passed away due to a tragic accident with his bicycle along Highway BB. Bob was my father's youngest brother and they were very close. Bob came by daily to see my dad, Tom Mabry, when he moved back to Nevada in 1986. Until my father's death in 1993, my Uncle Bob and my father reminisced about their childhood on the old home place on BB...

Nevada Daily Mail Seeing ballot initiatives in other states by Washington-based vegan and animal rights groups as a threat to Missourians' rights to hunt, fish and farm, a state representative from Dent County in southeast central Missouri has signed up more than 30 co-sponsors, including State Rep. Randy Pike, R-Adrian, for a House joint resolution to make those prerogatives constitutionally guaranteed...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail With the budget passed and the 5-0 vote officially recorded on Dec. 18, city manager JD Kehrman told the council that evening that there's plenty of activity on its way in 2013. One of the first things on the city's agenda is the sale of four surplus vehicles. ...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Between 2007 and 2011 the poverty rate of school age children in the Nevada R-5 school district and all but one of the surrounding districts has increased, according to information released by the U.S. Census Bureau earlier this month...

What will 2013 hold for the Missouri outdoorsman? What did 2012 hold? In looking back over the past year, it's time to review some of the biggest news items that came from the outdoors. One of the biggest events that affected outdoorsmen in the past year was the long drought that was tough on wildlife and fish across not only the state of Missouri, but the entire nation...

By Richard Carpenter Special to the Herald-Tribune Nevada Tiger Football has a lengthy and illustrious history. Last fall, NHS athletic director Kevin McKinley felt recognition of this history was long overdue. He sent a request to all Tiger football alumni. The invitation asked these past players to attend the first district football game and be recognized by the fans before the game...

Betty and Kenneth Hoenshell of Nevada will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Dec. 31, 2012. The Hoenshells were married at the Baptist church at Austin, Mo., by the Rev. Wiley. The couple have two children, Bonnie Sue Philpott and husband Steve of Oak Grove, Mo., and Wyatt Hoenshell and wife Debbie of Richards, Mo. ...

Letha Irene Hackney will celebrate her 104th birthday on Wednesday Jan. 2, 2013, with much of her family present. Mrs. Hackney has lived her whole life in Vernon County and continues to live at home with her daughter in Nevada. Family notes that if she were to be asked what she did to have such a long life, she would tell everyone to have a good cry, laugh and always love your life and family for GOD has given you only one of each and without HIS blessings none of this would have happened...