Stories from Monday, March 6, 2017

Donald Edgar Kelley, age 79, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Saturday, March 4, 2017, at Fort Scott Manor. There was cremation. Rev. Chuck Russell will conduct graveside services at 11 a.m. Friday, March 10, in the U.S. National Cemetery. Military honors will be provided by the Olson Frary Burkhart Post No. ...

Glenda Faye Gage, 65, of Fort Scott died Saturday afternoon, March 4, 2017 at the Guest Home Estates. She was born Sept. 25, 1951 in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of William Charles and Juanita Nadine (West) Monroe, Sr. She married Raymond Chaplin and they later divorced. She married Willard R. Gage, Jr. Aug. 25, 1981 and he preceded her in death June 1, 2004...

Maxine Nightingale, age 100, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away early Sunday, March 5, 2017, at the Medicalodge of Fort Scott. She was born May 28, 1916, in Spickard, Mo., the daughter of Doc Walter Stump and Jessie Roberts Stump. Maxine married Glenn Nightingale on July 11, 1942, in Topeka, Kan. ...

Mary Jean Wilkinson, age 69, a resident of Uniontown, Kan., passed away Friday, March 3, 2017, at the Medicalodge of Fort Scott. She was born Aug. 30, 1947, in Fort Scott, the daughter of George Russell and Bernice Stine Russell. Mary graduated from the Uniontown High School and later attended Bible College in Fort Worth, Texas. ...

Geneva Grace Brown Pellett Minor left her earthly journey on March 3, 2017 at Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott, Kan. Geneva was born Dec. 7, 1938 in Granola, Kan., the daughter of James T. Brown and Opal B. Dunbar Brown. She was raised in Elk County until 1953 when her parents moved to Garnet, Kan...