Stories from Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Mary Anna Mendenhall, 90, of Nevada, Mo., passed away peacefully at her home on May 29, 2016. She was born in Kansas City, Mo., on Oct. 7, 1925, to David L and Juanita (Fredlund) Johnson Sr. She graduated from Westport High School in Kansas City in 1942 and attended The University of Kansas City. She married her high school sweetheart Paul E. Mendenhall on June 3, 1943, at The Wornall Road Baptist Church, in Kansas City. They moved to Nevada in 1951. She was a homemaker...

Lenna Lea Roggensees, 57, passed away on Saturday, May 28, 2016, at her home in Nevada after a long battle with cancer. Lenna was born Jan. 8, 1959, in Chickasha, Okla., to Ronald and Anne (Bryant) Dawson. On July 16, 1994, she was married in Nevada to Bob Roggensees and he survives of the home...

Maxon Ray "Max" Senkevech, 73, Bronaugh, Mo., departed this life on May 29, 2016, at his home in Bronaugh, following an illness of several months. Max was born March 22, 1943, in Moundville, Mo., to Adam and Bessie Pearl (Doris) Senkevech. Max was raised in the Bronaugh area and graduated from Bronaugh High School in 1961. ...

Michael Ray Satterlee (Mike), 68, Rio Rancho, N.M., passed away Saturday, May 28, in Albuquerque, N.M. He was born on Aug. 9, 1947, in Lamar, Mo., to Helen (Elrod) and Raymond Satterlee. Mike attended Lamar schools throughout his childhood and graduated from Lamar High School. He was married to Sandra Morgan in 1967, while attending Bethany Nazarene College, and they enjoyed 48 years of life together. Mike received his masters of arts in Ministry from Southern Nazarene University in 1989...

Herbert Crosby "Jack" Wisely, 83, of Nevada, Mo., passed from this life on May 30, 2016. Jack was born in Lamar, Mo., to Edwin Logan and Nadine Francis (Shepherd) Wisely and grew up in the Sheldon area. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict and being stationed there, he married Naomi Morris who predeceased him in 2000. They are survived by two children, Julie Rouissi and Shannon Davis; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren...

Rae Ann Cannefax, 44, of Springfield, Mo., died on May 25, 2016, in Nevada, Mo. Visitation for Rae Ann will be on Tuesday, May 31, from 6 to 8 p.m., in Greenlawn Funeral Home South. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m., Wednesday, June 1, in Seminole Baptist Temple. All services will be in Springfield, Mo...

By Dr. Ron Jones "To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas." -- G. Brock Chisholm, psychiatrist and co-founder of the World Federation of Mental Health...

Dear Editor: To the rebuke by Erika Gravely that appeared in this newspaper on 11 May concerning the National Day of Prayer, I respond. Since she came to Prayer Day, I will conclude that she views herself Christian. She appears to have a good heart that Christians ought to have but actually has a secular humanist world view (see Humanist Manifest I and II) of which many Christians today do not realize their Christianity is Humanist. ...

Nevada Daily Mail While some fifth grade students get up at 5:30 a.m. to catch the bus on time, Hunter Lundine is awake for a very different reason. After a lifetime of illness and few answers, Hunter was recently diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and gets up early for breathing treatments to counteract some of the symptoms of cystic fibrosis...

Nevada Daily Mail "I was conceived in a mental institution. My parents were paranoid schizophrenics and I had five different foster homes before I was age 3," Diane Keech, executive director of Orphan Justice Center International, told about 20 people gathered at Nevada Church of the Nazarene Thursday...

Nevada Daily Mail While long known as State Hospital No. 3, and more recently as Nevada Habilitation Center, the facilities located at 2323 N. Ash St. have been closed and largely unused for more than four years. "The state of Missouri has determined that it has no need for the land or facilities and wants to offer it for local use," Missouri's 126 Dist. Rep. Patricia Pike told the Vernon County Commission Tuesday...

The first pitch of the Nevada Griffons 2016 season is set for 7 p.m. Thursday against the Midwest Nationals at Lyons Stadium. The Griffons posted a solid 27-16 overall record last season, while finishing 24-15 in MINK League play en route to the South Division title...