Stories from Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Participants in the annual Halloween Parade cross the intersection at Wall and Main streets Saturday. Members of the Fort Scott High School Pride committee served as crossing guards for the event. Children trick-or-treated at businesses along Main Street. ...

As the fog lifted Saturday morning at the Fort Scott Municipal Airport, it was replaced in the sky with billows of smoke stretching the horizon. Emergency sirens blared. Communication radios squawked. Emergency personnel ran from scene to scene at the airport as they analyzed the situation...

Mary Lorene Nash, age 76, La Cygne, Kan., passed away on Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, La Cygne Chapel. Burial will be in the Brooklyn Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. ...

Clara Caldwell of Stockton, Mo., would have been 91 on her Nov. 22 birthday next month. She passed away on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 at Stockton Healthcare Center in Stockton, Mo. She was preceded in death by her husband, Leslie A Caldwell. They had been married 58 years at the time of his passing in 2000. ...

Phillip Allen Shull, age 79, a former resident of Uniontown and Arma, Kan., died Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014, at the Adrian Manor in Adrian, Mo. He was born Sept. 30, 1935, at the family home near Uniontown, the son of Estil Shull and Opal Reeder Shull. ...

Kirt Edward Duffy, 69, of Pittsburg, Kan., died at 1:58 a.m., Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, at his home after a long illness. Kirt was born Jan. 29, 1945, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the son of William Paul and Jeanne Frances (Durfee) Duffy. Kirt has been a part of the Pittsburg community since the late 1960s. He was a Captain in the United States Air Force...

Ormonde Richard Frank Beltz, 91, of Fort Scott, passed away Saturday evening, Oct. 25, 2014 at the Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. He was born Aug. 30, 1923 in Newman Grove, Neb., the son of August and Cordula Willamine (Pose) Beltz. He was the second of six children, and a life-long member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. His family relocated to the Kansas City, Mo., area during the Great Depression...

Bernard Joseph Johnson, age 76, resident of rural Deerfield, Mo., passed from this life Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014, at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. He was born Nov. 25, 1937, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Hugh William and Mary Rebecca Neptune Johnson. He graduated from Fort Scott High School with the class of 1955. ...

Irene Cox Demott born on Aug. 16, 1928, in Centerville, Kan., the youngest and only daughter of Colyer Eugene Cox and Ethel May Kenison, passed away Oct. 11, 2014, in Knoxville, Tenn., after a few years of declining health. Irene graduated from Blue Mound High School in 1946. ...

MOUND CITY -- Uniontown's Jonathan Wheeler took part in the Pleasanton Class 2A Cross-Country Regional Meet here Saturday and finished in 36th place. His time of 22:03.54 was not fast enough to help him move on to the Class 2A State Meet, which will be held Saturday in Wamego...

The Fort Scott Community College men's basketball team will host the first "Meet the Greyhounds" night at Arnold Arena at 6 p.m. Thursday night. The event will give fans, alumni and the community the opportunity to watch and interact with student-athletes from this year's team...

YATES CENTER -- Uniontown's volleyball season came to an end against Sedan in the Class 2A Sub State Tournament here Saturday. The Eagles fell 25-17, 27-25 to the Blue Devils and saw their season end with a record of 15-19. Lindsay Nietfeld went 20 for 26 in attack with 7 kills. Holly Shinn wound up 20/24 on attacks, with 4 kills. Jana Wilkinson contributed 11 assists...

PAOLA -- Fort Scott High School's volleyball team went into the Paola Class 4A-Division II Sub-State here Saturday as the No. 2 seed. But home-court advantage worked out for the Panthers, who advanced 25-22, 25-16, in the first round of play to bring an end to the Tigers' season at 20-17...

GARNETT -- Fort Scott High School junior Cassidy Westhoff has qualified for State Cross Country for the second straight year by finishing third in the Anderson County Class 4A Regional Meet here Saturday. Westhoff took third in 15 minutes, 41.64 seconds and advanced as one of the top five runners from a school which did not place in the top three in team standings. ...

FORT DODGE, Iowa -- Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team, ranked No. 18 in the NJCAA Division II poll, found the going tough here over the weekend at the Iowa Western Invitational. The Greyhounds lost three of their four matches, two of those to other ranked teams, and fell to 28-8 on the season. Since the end of a 15-match winning streak that put them at 21-2, the 'Hounds have won just seven of the last 13...

Fort Scott High School's soccer team got past Riverton at Ellis Park Monday evening to advance in the Class 4-3-2-1A East Regional I Soccer Tournament by a score of 3-1 in a "play-in" match. The eighth-seeded Tigers (4-12) got goals from Jonah Jones and Alex Combs but the first Fort Scott goal was inadvertently scored by a Riverton player, who accidentally headed the ball into his own goal rather than away from it during the 23rd minute of play...

INDEPENDENCE -- Fort Scott Community College running back Devin Taylor ran for 211 yards and two touchdowns on 40 carries here Saturday night as the Greyhounds beat Independence, 24-3, in Jayhawk Conference action. Taylor's fifth 200-yard game of the season lifted his season total to 1,528 yards, which continues to lead the nation. ...