Stories from Wednesday, April 26, 2023

On Monday evening, April 24, Mayor Harold Walter called the Walker Board of Aldermen meeting to order. The board approved the minutes from last month's regular meeting and the minutes from the special meeting on April 3 before discussing the bills. The board questioned a few of the bills, starting with the $152 bill for the electric at City Hall. City Clerk Susan Thompson explained that the bill went up by $5 due to them adding call forwarding on the phone line...

Crews were busy removing trees Monday morning from Earp Park, on Austin Boulevard. The crews are preparing the park for remodeling planned by the Nevada Lions Club. The Nevada Lions Club has been raising funds for the project where they will be installing a new fountain, new benches, new lighting, new signage, and new concrete walkways. ...

Essa Helen Armstrong passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, after a brief illness. She was born on Jan. 3, 1939, to Thomas Markham LaDue Sr. and Corinne Helen Craig LaDue in Wright County, Mo. The family moved to Nevada while Helen was in first grade. She graduated from Nevada High School in 1957 at the Fox Theatre due to the burning of the high school in November of 1956. Helen married Keith Armstrong on June 13, 1957 in Miami, Oklahoma and he preceded her in death on Aug. 8, 2005...

Henry J. Austin, 83, Nevada, Mo., died on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023, in Rock Springs, Wyo. He was born Sept. 6, 1935, in El Dorado Springs, Mo., to Tommy C. and Hattie E. (Horning) Austin. A graveside committal will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, April 29, at Mt. Vernon Cemetery in Walker, Mo., with Brother Dick Harris officiating...

Dennis Charles Hyder, 74, Nevada, Mo., died on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at Kansas University Medical Center, in Kansas City, Kan. Dennis was born May 21, 1948, in Petaluma, Calif., the son of Virgil Lee and Retta Mae (Rowland) Hyder. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 29, at Antioch Cemetery, in Nevada. The family will receive friends from 6 to 7 p.m., Friday, at Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada...