Stories from Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Roy A. Stroup, age 94, Fontana, Kan., passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017 at Aberdeen Village in Olathe, Kan. Funeral service will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017 at the La Cygne United Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Cadmus Cemetery. Masonic Service will be held 5 p.m. ...

Gary Dorwin Jackson, 66, of Iola passed away Friday, Dec. 8, 2017 at the veterans' hospital in Kansas City, Mo. A graveside service with military honors will be 11 a.m., Friday, Dec. 15, 2017 at Bronson Cemetery, Bronson. Services are arranged through Feuerborn Family Funeral Service in Iola...

Dean Mitchell, 82, of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Wednesday morning, Dec. 13, 2017, at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo. He was born May 30, 1935, in Mulberry, Kan., the son of Harry Allen Sr. and Elsie Angeline (Cawell) Mitchell. He married Effie Belle Waring, Oct. 27, 1957, in Garland, Kan., and she survives of the home...