Stories from Monday, July 20, 2015

Fort Scott American Legion Post 25 will play host to the AA Zone Tournament beginning Wednesday at Dave Regan Stadium. There will be five teams in the tournament including Garnett Post 48, Iola Post 15, Osawatomie Post 204 and Silver Lake Post 160. The double-elimination tournament begins Wednesday with what will actually be a second-round game between No. ...

Fort Scott's 13-year-old baseball team finished third in the Babe Ruth District Tournament it hosted here over the weekend and is expected to advance to the State Tournament this week at Cottonwood Falls (verification pending). Fort Scott's team played twice on Saturday at Dave Regan Stadium, beating Independence 15-0 in three innings before dropping a 17-6 verdict to Frontenac in the third-place game...

Dorothy May Headley, 64, of Fort Scott, died Saturday morning, July 18, 2015 at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. Funeral arrangements for Dorothy Headley are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home...

Bobbie D. Turner, 77, of Fort Scott, died Saturday morning, July 18, 2015 at the Medicalodge Nursing Home. He was born Sept. 24, 1937 in Deerfield, Mo., the son of Dale and Lorena Estella (Hood) Turner. He married Myrna Burke Feb. 14, 1957 in Girard, Kan., and she preceded him in death June 13, 2014...

Mildred Elizabeth Johnson, age 87, a former resident of Pittsburg, Kan., and more recently of Wichita, Kan., died early Monday, July 20, 2015, in Wichita. She was born April 27, 1927, in Hepler, Kan., the daughter of Irvin Linton and Edith Creagar Linton. ...

Jerry Lee Baucom, 75, died Saturday, July 18, 2015, at his home in rural Fort Scott. Jerry was born in Chanute, Kan., March 16, 1940. He was the eighth child in a family of nine. At a very young age, his family moved from Chanute to the family farm southeast of Devon, Kan., where they resided for many years...

John David Adams, 61, of Fort Scott, passed away at his home Tuesday, July 14, 2015. He was born Oct. 17, 1953 in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of John Henry and Dorcas Elizabeth (Wilkerson) Adams. Survivors include his two sons, Bryan Adams of Pittsburg, Kan., and Darnell Johnson of Fort Scott; six brothers, Hugh Wilkerson and wife Ramona of Mexico, Stanton Wilkerson of Canada, Claude Adams of Fort Scott, Danny Adams and wife Michelle of Spokane, Wash., Laurence Adams of Pittsburg, Kan., and Brian Adams of Buffalo, N.Y.; a sister, Aileen Adams-Boyington; five grandchildren, a host of nieces and nephews and great-nieces and nephews, and special friends, Cadillac McNack, and Michael Lewis Johnson. ...