Stories from Friday, October 2, 2009

Frank Miller, age 78, resident of 523 McCleverty, Fort Scott, died Thursday morning, Oct. 1, 2009, at Medicalodge of Fort Scott. He was born April 27, 1931, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Frank Miller and Leora Mae Keffer Miller. Frank married Laura Edens on May 25, 1951, at Fort Scott, Kan...

Raymond Gustavus Haas, age 86, former resident of rural Fort Scott, went home to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Wednesday morning, Sept. 30, 2009, in Bessemer, Ala. He was born Dec. 22, 1922, in Richards, Mo., the son of Charles and Katie Wilson Haas...

Betty Louise (Morris) Cikanek, 74, of Peculiar, Mo., formerly of Pleasanton, Kan., died Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 at the Rehabilitative Center of Raymore, Raymore, Mo. Services will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 at the Coffel-Schneider Chapel, Pleasanton, Kan...

"It's hard to step on someone's toes when you're washing them." I'm not sure who said that, but I witnessed that wisdom in action when I attended a Thespian conference in Salina last weekend. Kansas drama students had come to give speeches, hoping that we theater directors would vote for them to represent our organization in Wichita at the state gathering in January. ...