Kevin Dean Beard

Kevin Dean Beard, age 52, a resident of Fort Scott,, died Monday, March 29, 2010, at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott.

Funeral services will be held at 11:30 p.m., Thursday, April 1, at the Cheney Witt Memorial Chapel. Burial will follow in the U.S. National Cemetery where military honors will be provided by the Olson Frary Burkhart Post No. 1165 Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Memorials are suggested to the Kevin Beard Memorial Fund and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, P.O. Box 347, Fort Scott, KS 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at www.cheneywitt.com.