Stories from Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Zana Ellen (Chambers) Blankenship, age 83, of Walker, passed away Sunday, May 13. Zana was born December 11, 1934, in Sedalia, MO, to Thomas E. and Elsie M. (Rains) Chambers. She graduated from Warsaw High School in 1953 and married Max Blankenship on July 1, 1953. To their union five children were born...

Dean Russell Eaton, age 84, of Milpitas, Calif., passed away on Friday, Nov. 10, 2017 at the Regional Medical Center in San Jose, Calif. Dean was born Feb. 22, 1933 in Deerfield, Mo., to George Britton Eaton and Luella Palmer Eaton. Dean was the youngest of five children. He had three sisters; Virginia, Margaret, Elinor and one brother, Harry...

Darrell Earnest Harden, 83, of Nevada, went to be with the Lord on Monday, May 14, at the Webb City Health and Rehab Center following a lengthy illness. Darrell was born July 7, 1934, in Walker to John Raymond and Willa Rose (Edson) Harden. He was raised in Walker and attended Walker School...

On Tuesday, May 15, Jean Loving, widow of Buck Loving, passed away. We lost the woman who was grandmother to three, sister to two, great-grandmother to one, aunt to two, mother-in-law to two and for three lucky people, our mom. With her death, we all lost our cheerleader and the woman who taught by example. ...

It was a cool overcast morning Tuesday, perfect weather for the 10th annual Girl emPOWERment GM5K fun run at Nevada Middle School. “Many of the girls had never attempted a five-kilometer event of any kind, and doing this in a friendly non-competitive environment can take away the initial intimidation of the length,” school nurse and club sponsor Dawn Jones said...

CARL JUNCTION — After Monday night’s semifinal victory over Seneca put the Nevada Tigers on the cusp of their first district championship in more than a decade, seventh-year Nevada head coach Danny Penn briefly reflected on the program’s last district title victory...