Stories from Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Stanley Eugene Ford, 72, Moundville, Mo., passed away on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., following a lengthy illness. Stan was born July 5, 1948 in Ft. Scott, Kan., to Frances W. and Bertha M. (Riley) Ford. On Dec. 22, 1968, he was united in marriage to Norma L. Salters in Hume, Mo., and she survives of the home...

Meaghyn BreAnn Ensor, 23, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 in Merriam, Kan. Meaghyn was born on June 25, 1997 in Nevada, Mo., to Clinton Eugene Gregg and Melissa Lynn (Ensor) McCoy. Meaghyn was full of life; she was a prankster who loved her family and friends. Her children were her world. She loved penguins, and she loved to fish. Meaghyn was currently working as a server at Shark’s in Shawnee, Kan...

Anna Mae Hartley, age 77, a former resident of Ft. Scott, Kan., and more recently of Gardner, Kan., passed away Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, at the Medicalodge of Gardner. She was born April 10, 1943, in Moran, Kan., the daughter of Paul L. Ward and Pauline Edwards Ward. Ann married Fred Hartley on Sept. 15, 1966, at Ft. Scott. Ann had worked at the Western Insurance Company as a file clerk from 1961 to 1970...

Charles Lee Cook, age 71, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, at his home. He was born Oct. 27, 1949, in Fort Scott, the son of Theodore Roosevelt Cook and Cora May Ridgway Cook. He married Norma Jean Smith Nalley. He worked for several years as a truck driver where he hauled mail for the postal service. ...

Marilynn Konantz Miller, 100, of Hastings, Neb., passed away Dec. 7, 2020. She was born in Fort Scott, Kan., on April 3, 1920, the daughter of Hazel Marie (Bicknell) and Bruder Konantz. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1941, was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority, Pi Lambda Theta (an education honorary), and the Dean‘s Acapella Choir...

The Fort Scott High School Tiger wrestling team secured a first place title in the Fort Scott Dual Tournament Dec. 4 in the FSHS gymnasium. Fort Scott’s grapplers won every dual at the tournament, their first competition of the season. It was the first team win at Fort Scott’s home dual tournament under third-year head coach Alvin Metcalf...

The Kansas State High School Activities Association Board of Directors voted 54-24 Tuesday afternoon to allow a limited number of fans return to winter school activities. The board voted to allow up to two parents or guardians per participant’s family. The change becomes effective Thursday and will continue through at least Jan. 28, according to board meeting minutes...

The Fort Scott Tiger boys’ and girls’ basketball teams picked up their first wins of the season on the last day of the annual Willard Basketball Classic on Saturday. In the early game Saturday, the Lady Tigers (1-2) controlled the game for four quarters en route to a 51-24 victory over the Branson Lady Pirates. ...

Fort Scott City Commissioners held a work session Tuesday to help the director of finance decide the language for a ballot question to renew a half-cent sales tax. The half-cent sales tax currently in place will sunset on June 30. Voters will be asked to go to the polls in March to decide whether the tax should be renewed...

Bourbon County Commissioners on Tuesday approved amendments to the 2020 budget to account for additional expenditures that occurred late in the year. Terry Sercer, CPA with Diehl, Banwart and Bolton, appeared before commissioners to explain the need for the budget amendment. Sercer said he had previously looked through the county’s financial figures through October, but he recently received county numbers through November from County Clerk Kendell Mason...