Stories from Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Carl Frederich Lyman, age 72, a resident of rural Garland, Kan., passed away early Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, at his home. He was born Nov. 10, 1946, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Clifford Lyman and Hattie Jasmund Lyman. Carl graduated from the Fort Scott High School and the Fort Scott Community College. ...

April Michelle “Shelly” Brodnax Piatt, age 48, a resident of Girard, Kan., passed away Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, at the Freeman West Medical Center in Joplin, Mo. She was born April 18, 1970, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of James Erwin Brodnax and Doris Jean Stanley Brodnax. ...

Art Terry, age 71, Prescott, Kan., passed away on Monday, Jan. 28, 2019 at his home. Funeral service 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel. Burial will be in the Fort Scott National Cemetery with military honors provided by Olson Frary Burkhart VFW Post 1165. Visitation will be held...

Roger William Westhoff, 78, of Hepler, Kan., passed away at the family home, Monday. Jan. 28, 2019. Roger was born Jan. 12, 1941 in rural Hiattville, Kan., a son of William and Elinor (Robinson) Westhoff. He attended school in Walnut, Kan., graduating from Walnut High School...

Ruth R. Mudd, 98, formerly of Uniontown, passed away Monday morning, Jan. 28, 2019, at the Kingswood Health Center in Kansas City, Mo. She was born Nov. 20, 1920, in Uniontown, Kan., the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Effie Bertha (Summers) Hart. She married (James) Kelly Mudd June 18, 1943, in Riverside, Calif. He preceded her in death Feb. 22, 2002...

Fort Scott Community College Director of Nursing Jordan Howard provided the FSCC Board of Trustees with an update on the college’s nursing department Monday night. Howard reported on the results of a site visit conducted by the Kansas State Board of Nursing in September. Howard said the KSBN conducts site visits every eight to 10 years...

An emergency room will be retained in Bourbon County, although there will be a lapse in service, according to a press release issued Tuesday by Ascension Via Christi of Pittsburg. “Ascension Via Christi has an agreement to operate Fort Scott’s former emergency room, diagnostic imaging and laboratory services, as soon as it can get regulatory approval to do so," a Via Christi press release states...

Longtime Bourbon County Conservation Board of Supervisor Ronnie Brown was presented with a special award Saturday during the annual meeting and dinner of the Bourbon County Conservation District. The Banker's Award, Grassland Award, Water Quality Award, poster and essay contest winners were also announced...

In a game that ended in dramatic fashion, the Fort Scott Tiger boys basketball team (3-10 overall, 2-4 in the SEK) came out on top 67-63 over the Chanute Blue Comets (8-5, 3-3) in overtime Tuesday night in Chanute. The boys’ game, which featured some questionable officiating and scorekeeping late, followed a girls’ contest in which the Lady Tigers (2-11, 1-5) fell 47-24 to the Lady Blue Comets (6-7, 4-2). The Tiger boys’ win broke the team’s three-game losing streak...