Stories from Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Mayor Harold Walter called the Walker Board of Aldermen meeting to order Monday evening, Nov. 28. The board approved of the agenda, minutes from the last month’s meeting, the financial report, bank reconciliation, and paying the bills. City Clerk Susan Thompson reported that the Bartlett and West report suggested that they should get flow meters instead of the kind that they have. ...

Frances Corinne Oskee, age 99, a former resident of Fort Scott, Kan., and more recently of Nevada, Mo., passed away Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, at the Medicalodge, of Nevada. She was born July 7, 1923, in Fulton, Kan., the daughter of Henry Lawrence Bloesser and Kittie Frances Martin Bloesser. ...

Donald Ray Belcher, 78, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo. Don was born Oct. 20, 1944, in Nevada, to Carl and Geneva O. (Bains) Belcher. He married Sandra Lee Smith and to this union three children were born...

Dorothea Nichols Wells passed away on Nov. 28, 2022, at home in Schell City, Mo., at the age of 84. The daughter of Lewis Wayne and Athola Mae (Conway) Nichols, Dorothea was born Sept. 3, 1938. She graduated from the Schell City Public Schools in May 1956. ...