Stories from Monday, May 1, 2017

Shirley Ann Howell, age 65, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Sunday, April 30, 2017, at her home. She was born Nov. 3, 1951, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Herbert Lee McReynolds and Rosie Virginia Gibson McReynolds. Following cremation, a memorial service will be held at a later date at the Bethel Community Church. ...

Janifer Van Zula (Sells) Dorsey, 83, of St. Paul, Kan., passed away Saturday, April 29, 2017 at Prairie Mission Retirement Village, St. Paul, Kan. She was born Nov. 6, 1933 in Camden, Tenn., the daughter of Roy James Sells and Jetta Buna (Wyatt) Sells. She grew up Tennessee and Arkansas until settling in the Bronson, Kan., Uniontown, Kan., area and later moving to Richmond, Kan., and eventually in Altamont, Kan...

Mary Ellen Carney, 97, passed away on Friday, April 28, 2017 at Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs, Mo. She was born Oct. 1, 1919 in Boncarbo, Colo., the fourth child of Charles and Sarah (Marsh) Wimmers. Mary Ellen attended school in Fulton, Kan., and graduated in 1936. ...