Stories from Friday, September 20, 2024

Walter Harold “Dub” Kennedy Jr. passed away Saturday, September 14, 2024, at Freeman Hospital West, in Joplin, MO.  He was born September 22, 1953, in Ft. Scott, Kansas to Walter Harold and Gwen Leona “Tiny” Morris and he graduated from Metz High School.  He worked as a custom applicator of agricultural spraying...

Zena “Zee” Mae (McClanahan) Mills, formerly of Schell City, was born in Roscoe, MO to Clarence and Gladys McClanahan. Zee passed away in her hometown of Salinas, CA at the age of 92. Zee was the 5th of 12 children. She moved from Schell City, MO. to Monterey, CA in 1952, where she met and married William (Bill) Davidson. She and Bill had 4 daughters...

Sally Marie Hutchins, 72, Nevada, MO passed away on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at the NorthCare Hospice House in North Kansas City, MO. Sally was born November 23, 1951 in Salt Lake City, UT to Lamont Felt and Helen (Davidson) Toronto. She was united in marriage to Kenneth Hutchins on April 6, 1978 in Salt Lake City and he preceded her in death on April 10, 2022...

Jesse Eugene “Bunny” Murray, Jr. 63, of Milo, MO, passed away Saturday, September 14, 2024, resulting from a motorcycle accident near Collins, Mo. He was born December 19, 1960, in Lamar, MO to Jesse Murray, Sr and Karen Leer.  He attended Nevada High School. ...

Our nation is big enough to allow for several regional stereotypes; for example, there’s the southern belle, the New York sophisticate and the California beach bum. Personally, I was born and bred in the “fly-over zone” and I happily embrace that parentage. However, although I can tell the difference between a cow and a bull, (unfortunately not growing up in 4-H), that’s about as far as my Midwestern animal husbandry goes...

With under two minutes to play, things looked bleak for the Nevada Tigers. However, at 1:29 Nevada QB Kellen Braden hit running back John Michael Collins with a swing pass.  In a play that will long be remembered by the Crimson & Gray faithful, 75 yards later, a winded Collins stood in the Mac County endzone...