Stories from Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Betty Ann Woody, 83, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin following a short illness. Betty Ann was born Oct. 11, 1934, in Belton, Mo., to Jacob Lester and Opal (Pitts) Thompson. She was united in marriage to Charles Allen Woody on Oct. 19, 1952, in Nevada, Mo., and he passed away on Aug. 27, 1984...

Patsy Carol (Kibbee) Picknell, age 77, of Butler, Mo., formerly Brooklyn, passed away Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, at Grinnell Regional Medical Center, Grinnell, Iowa. Graveside Services will be 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 4, in Brooklyn Memorial Cemetery, Brooklyn, Iowa. Memorials may be contributed in Patsy’s name to the American Heart Association or the American Cancer Society. Kloster Funeral Home, Brooklyn, Iowa, is assisting the family with arrangements...

Mary Margaret (Gilmore) Wimer passed away Sept. 7, 2018, at Avalon Care Center in Sonora, Calif., at the age of 95 years. Margaret was born April 5, 1924, in Nevada, Mo., the only child of Lera (Baker) Gilmore and Ulmont Earl Gilmore. She was a 1941 graduate of Nevada High School and worked as a telephone operator for Bell Telephone Company in Nevada, Mo., until her transfer to Sonora, Calif., in 1968. ...

The Vernon County Extension Council met on Monday evening for a brief agenda covering Oktoberfest, insurance coverage and the 2019 January council elections.  Family Financial Education Specialist David Black discussed with the council his views on recruiting new council members and not overtaxing volunteers. ...

As students and their parents across the Nevada R-5 District know, there was no school on Monday; it was a Professional Development day. While K-5 teachers and K-12 para-professionals (paras) received training on dyslexia, every staff-member of the R-5 district, from bus-drivers, building maintenance, those in the kitchen and offices to paras, teachers and administrators all received “Trusted Adult” training as part of the district’s SOS, Signs of Suicide initiative...