Stories from Monday, September 11, 2017

Thomas A. Burns, age 83, a resident of Ft. Scott, Kan., passed away Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, at the Country Place Senior Living Facility in Ft. Scott. He was born Jan. 23, 1934, in Burrton, Kan., the son of Howard Burns and Mary Westfahl Burns. Tom graduated from high school in Nixa, Mo. ...

Barbara Ann Schweppe Hanes, 83, formally of Fort Scott died at her home in Walnut Village in Anaheim, Calif., following a short illness. Barbara was born in Chillicothe, Mo., the daughter of John Thomas and Vera Cleveland Schweppe on June 9, 1934. She came to Fort Scott with her parents a young girl when her father, an International Harvester agency representative, became part owner of the Fort Scott Truck and Tractor Company. ...

Sister Mary Barbara Karleskint, RSM, age 98, a former resident of Fort Scott, Kan., and more recently of St. Louis, Mo., passed Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, at Catherine’s Residence in St. Louis. She was born May 3, 1919, in Miami, Okla., the daughter of Joseph Karleskint and Mary Hickman Karleskint. ...