Stories from Monday, November 18, 2019

Sylva Alletie Jenkins, age 87, a resident of rural Blue Mound, Kan., died Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019 at her home. She was born July 13, 1932 with a twin sister Sarah, in Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of Erma (Cooper) and James Hawkins. Sylva met George Barker Jenkins, Jr. ...

Kenneth “Kenny” Dean Monroe, age 34, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo. He was born Dec. 28, 1984, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Charles Monroe and Lori Culp. Kenny was a devoted father who thought the world of his three children. ...

Austin Colwell Holeman passed away Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, at Freeman Hospital, Joplin, Mo. Colwell was 92. He had suffered numerous health issues in his last months and it was time for God to call him home. Colwell was born in a farmhouse northwest of Bronson, Kan., and was a lifelong farmer and stockman in the Bronson area. ...