Stories from Friday, October 23, 2015

e, Jr., age 90, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott. He was born March 10, 1925, in Greenville, Ky., the son of Thomas Milton Lee, Sr. and Cora Gary Lee. He married Martha Ellen Cook on Aug. 16, 1947, in Kent, Ohio. ...

Joyce Mae Kerley, age 86, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, at Mercy Hospital. She was born on July 8, 1929, in Oskaloosa, Mo., the daughter of Emory Briggs, Sr. and Dovie Ellen Moore Briggs. She married Richard L. Kerley on Sept. 4, 1949, in Arcadia, Kan. He preceded her in death on Dec. 8, 2013. Joyce worked for Whitesides East grocery store as a cashier and bookkeeper...

Lenora K. King, 72, of Marshall, Mo., died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015 at her home. Private family inurnment will be at a later date at Oak Grove Cemetery in Fort Scott, Kan. Memorials are suggested to the American Heart Association and an online guestbook is available at www.campbell-lewis.com...

The annual Young Professionals League Career Fair gave Fort Scott High School students an opportunity to visit with representatives from several businesses and organizations. Students asked questions about the professions represented.

Bourbon County Treasurer Rhonda Dunn attended the Tuesday meeting of the Bourbon County Commission to report on a recent meeting of the county's department heads. Dunn said she had a discussion with a commissioner about the need for everyone to be "conservative in their spending" for the remainder of the 2015 fiscal year...

The city of Fort Scott is moving forward with plans to design a community downtown park near the newly-constructed Lowell Milken Center building. City Manager Dave Martin talked to the Fort Scott City Commission Tuesday about assisting the Lowell Milken Center with construction of a community park that would be located on a grassy space just south of the site where construction on the new LMC facility is nearing completion at 1 S. Main St...