Stories from Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Doris B. Stephens, age 78, a 50-year resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Saturday, April 30, 2016, in Fort Scott. She was born July 16, 1937, in Uniontown, Kan., the daughter of Robert "Bob" Lind and Gladys Ford Lind. She attended school in both Bronson and Moran. Doris had worked for the Western Insurance Company and retired after 27 years...

Nancy Sue Marcum, age 65, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Saturday, April 30, 2016, at the Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo. She was born March 10, 1951, in Wichita, Kan., the daughter of Floyd Andrew Leonard and Lucille Mills Leonard. Nancy had worked in area pre-schools and daycare facilities for many years...

Hildred Hunt, age 90, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., went home to Heaven Sunday, May 1, 2016, at the Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. She was born Nov. 26, 1925, in rural Dade County, Mo., the daughter of Albert Feezell and Gertrude Bennett Feezell. ...

Alta Louise Carper, age 100, died Sunday, May 1, 2016, at Moran Manor, Moran, Kan. She was born June 3, 1915, in Bourbon County, Kan., (Pawnee Station) the daughter of William and Bessie Long Dikeman. She married Louis F. "Red" Carper on Jan. 3, 1941. ...

With end-of-school events coming up, Fort Scott Police Department School Resource Office Joe Allen and students in the Seat belts Are For Everyone (SAFE) program at Fort Scott High School have some messages to share. Allen and members of the SAFE team have coordinated a mock fatal vehicle crash to take place at 2:30 p.m. ...

Students, guests, families and friends lined the front driveway of Uniontown High School to watch junior-senior prom attendees arrive. Kate Anderson and Zach Davis were crowned queen and king during the night's events. Approximately 70 students attended the Hollywood-themed 2016 prom...

MOUND CITY -- Both Fort Scott and Uniontown sent golfers here Thursday to Jayhawk-Linn's tournament at Sugar Valley. The Tigers had their best finish of the season as a team with a fifth-place score of 374. Uniontown sent just three golfers and did not score as a team...

OVERLAND PARK -- Fort Scott Community College's softball team lost its 14th and 15th consecutive post-season games here Saturday as No. 2 seed Johnson County defeated the Greyhounds 8-3 and 4-2 in a first-round Region VI Division II District D Tournament series...

GIRARD -- Josh Hudiburg won boys' javelin at a storm-shortened Girard Optimist Club Invitational here Friday. Hudiburg was one of three Fort Scott High medalists in the event, winning with a best throw of 183 feet, 7 inches. Fort Scott's Wyatt Tourtillott was the runner-up at 159' 5" and Morgan Stoughton took sixth at 132' 4"...

OVERLAND PARK -- Fort Scott Community College's baseball team broke out of its conference slump here Friday and clinched sixth place in the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division with a sweep of Johnson County. The Greyhounds (18-18 East, 36-19 overall) won the opener, 3-0, posting their first shutout since March 5 when they held Cowley scoreless in the second game of a road doubleheader. They took the nightcap, 5-3, after hold off a Johnson County rally...