Stories from Monday, August 15, 2016

Janet Morrisey, age 61, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016 at her home. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel. Inurnment will be at the Eureka Cemetery. ...

Norma Jean Stockebrand Wimmer , 88, of Great Falls, Mont., passed away Friday, Aug. 12, 2016. Norma was born in Fort Scott, Kan., on May 20, 1928. She attended school through junior college in Fort Scott and completed her bachelors in home economics at Kansas State University in May 1949...

Michael Elza Pruitt of Nevada, Mo., peacefully went home to be with Jesus at Freeman Hospital, Joplin, Mo., on Aug. 12, 2016. He was born on Dec. 24, 1943 in Fort Scott, Kan., to Elza R. and Bernice Louise (Killion) Pruitt. He accepted the Lord and was baptized at a very young age. ...

Howard Kivett, 78, of Fort Scott, died Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016 at the Medicalodge Nursing Home in Fort Scott, Kan. He was born in Arkansas City, Kan., to Alvin A. and Erma Kivett. He was a graduate of Arkansas City High School and Arkansas City Junior College. He transferred to Oklahoma State University in the fall of 1957, completing a B.S. in natural science in January 1959. The spring semester was spent in graduate school at Kansas University...