Stories from Thursday, December 22, 2016

Stephen (Steve) Ray Golden passed from this world on Dec. 21, 2016. Steve was born to Raymond T. and Bertha M. (Bisel) Golden in Kansas City, Kan., on June 27, 1952 and attended school in Leavenworth, Kan., where he spent his early life. He served in the U.S. ...

Franklin Eugene "Gene" Benskin Sr., 91, of Pittsburg, died Dec. 19, 2016 at Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg of an illness. He was born April 14, 1925 in Arcadia, Kan., the son of Raymond Herman and Ella Terrill Benskin. He had been a resident of Pittsburg since 1949 and was reared in the Fort Scott and Arcadia area. He attended Fort Scott public schools...

Margaret Louise Oringderff, aged 86, died peacefully on Dec. 12, 2016 after a brief struggle with cancer. Margaret was born on Oct. 29, 1930, in Tulsa, Okla. She had an idyllic childhood growing up in Fort Scott, Kan., as an only child to loving and doting parents, Ralph and Eva Blackburn. She graduated from Fort Scott High School and went on to pursue her nursing degree in Springfield, Mo...