Stories from Monday, January 16, 2017

Sidney Dale Alexander, Jr., 79, of Stockton, Mo., formerly of Mound City, Kan. died on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 at his home following a long battle with failing health. The funeral service will be at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017 at Schneider Funeral Home & Crematory, Mound City Chapel. ...

Myrtle Evelyn Hinton, age 95, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away early Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, at the Fort Scott Medicalodge. She was born Aug. 2, 1921, in Hume, Mo., the daughter of William McBath and Subil Hastings McBath. She married Orvel "Dick" Hinton on October 30, 1939, at Nevada, Mo. Myrtle had been employed as a seamstress for Key Work Clothes for over thirty years. She enjoyed gardening and canning as well as cooking and baking. She also liked to read...

Betty Lou Clayton, age 88, of Fort Scott, Kan., left the loving care of her family to peacefully begin her journey home to be with the Lord on Jan. 13, 2017, at Medicalodge of Fort Scott. Betty was born Aug. 3, 1928, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Sam Edgar and Dora Bollmann Edgar. ...

Donald Allen Adams, age 87, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, at Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. He was born Dec. 11, 1929, in Barton County, Mo., the son of Paul and Mary Brooks Adams. He graduated from Nevada High School with the class of 1948. ...

Fort Scott High School's basketball teams will play early games on Thursday in the first round of the Kansas Army National Guard Invitational at Frontenac. Fort Scott's boys (2-6), the defending champion last season as the No. 8 seed, have been seeded seventh this season. ...