Stories from Thursday, February 18, 2021

Marilyn J. Miller (Pulliam) was born on Feb. 26, 1931 in a boxcar in Cimarron, Kan. She was the third of four children. She grew up during the Depression, married her high school sweetheart (Robert W. Miller), and began their family. They raised a daughter and son, first in Fort Scott, then Wisconsin Rapids Wisc., then a farm near Pittsville, Wisc...

James “Jim” Gordon Hoffman, age 86, a resident of Fort Scott, died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. He was born Aug. 22, 1934, to Lester H. and Hazel (Bowers) Hoffman in Ottawa, Kan. After graduating from Ottawa High with the class of 1952, he attended the University of Kansas and served in the U.S. ...