Stories from Monday, March 9, 2020

Helen Irene Townsley, age 96, Blue Mound, Kan., passed away on Sunday March 8, 2020. She was born on July 12, 1923 in Ottawa, Kan., the daughter of Roy and Berneice Underwood Emmons. She graduated from Blue Mound High School in the Class of 1942. After high school, during World War II she worked for Boeing Aircraft in Wichita. ...

Erla Mae Casner, age 90, died March 5, 2020, at Guest Home Estates, Fort Scott. She was born Oct. 26, 1929, in Mapleton, Kan., daughter of William Fred Bloesser and Lula Mae Wellington Blosser. She married Merle LaVerne Casner on Oct. 26, 1947, in Fort Scott. He preceded her in death June 10, 2017...