Stories from Monday, April 6, 2020

Elmer Junior Judy, age 90, a resident of rural Fort Scott, peacefully went to be with Jesus Friday, April 3, 2020, at his home. He was born March 9, 1930, at the family’s rock house southwest of Fort Scott, the son of Elmer Lewis Judy and Eliza Elizabeth Sanders Judy. Elmer graduated from the Fort Scott High School. He married Lee Ella Gates on April 15, 1949, at Fort Scott...

In the month of May, 1939 in the central Kansas town of Natoma, Roberta Mae (Reynolds) Peck was born into the family of Pastor W.R. and Essie Faye Reynolds. Her next address would be Covington, Tennessee, then on to West Virginia where her parents ministered to churches in Ashford, Chapmanville, and Huntington. ...

Sister Catherine Rose Coiner, O.S.B., 62, Clear Creek Abbey, Hulbert, Okla., passed away Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 at Porta Caeli Hospice House in Tulsa, Okla. She was born Jan. 9, 1957 in Fort Scott, the daughter of Lawrence and Margaret Jo (Howell) Coiner. She graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1975. She attended Fort Scott Community College and acquired a degree in nursing. She was a registered nurse in the states of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma...

George E. Colgin, age 72, a resident of rural Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Saturday, April 4, 2020, at the Medicalodge of Fort Scott following a battle with brain cancer. He was born June 10, 1947, in Pittsburgh, Pa., the son of George W. Colgin and Margaret J. ...

Nels Adrian Smith, 83, of Mapleton, Kan. (formerly of Farlington) passed away Saturday, April 4, 2020 at his home. Nels was born December 31, 1936 in Farlington to Victor Adrian and Julia Florence Elliott Smith. He lived most of his life in the Farlington area...