Stories from Thursday, May 14, 2015

John Sherman Scott, Sr., age 75, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Rev. Kevin Moyers and Pastor Tim Woodring will conduct funeral services at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 18, at the Community Christian Church. Following cremation, burial will take place at a later date in the Evergreen Cemetery. ...

Angela Rose Johnson, age 61, a former resident of Fort Scott, Kan., and more recently of Arma, Kan., died Monday, May 11, 2015 at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. She was born Oct. 6, 1953, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Earl Walker and Geraldine Johnson. Angela had worked as a CNA for area nursing homes...

Pastor C. E. DeWitt left this world surrounded by family and friends on May 12, 2015. He entered the next world the very same way. Born on Aug. 5, 1931, Pastor DeWitt began life in Mont Ida, Kan. He met and married Judy Crosby (his wife of 62 years), while service in the U.S. Air Force in Amarillo, Texas...

Gary Edward Deloney, 72, of Fort Scott died Wednesday afternoon, May 13, 2015 in Fort Scott. He was born Aug. 17, 1942 in Mound City, Kan., the son of Adolph Lewis and Mildred Marie (Coffeen) Deloney. He married Charyl Ann Doherty Oct. 7, 1967 in Wichita, Kan., she survives of the home...