Stories from Friday, August 27, 2021

Ann Louise Ferguson, 88, of Girard, Kan. died on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021 at the Girard Medical Center. She was born on March 18, 1933 in Holton, Kan., the daughter of Cyril and Velma Nolin. She grew up in Blue Mound, Kan., and graduated from Blue Mound High School in 1951. She received her BS degree from Kansas State Teachers College, now Pittsburg State University...

Danelle Nicole Page Joines, age 30, a former resident of Redfield, Kan., and more recently of Blue Springs, Mo., passed away Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, at the Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., following a brief illness. She was born July 7, 1991, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Garry R. ...

Anna Meredith Jones, age 97, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away early Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, at the Medicalodges in Fort Scott. She was born March 10, 1924, in Garland, Kan., the daughter of Archie White Dickerson and Ora Ethel Edgell Dickerson. ...

Thomas Glenn Smith, 80, of Redfield, Kan., passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021 after a lengthy battle with COVID-19 at Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kan. Glenn was born on July 9, 1941, at the home of his parents, Thomas and Ruth Smith of Arcadia. Kan...

Maxine Louise Kinney Smith, 96, of Fort Scott, passed away early Friday morning, Aug. 27, 2021, at A Country Place, Fort Scott, Kan. Arrangements will be announced by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Daisy Louise Strader, 94, of Fort Scott, passed away Sunday afternoon, Aug. 22, 2021, at her home. She was born Feb. 19, 1927, in Uniontown, Kan., the daughter of James Frederick and Bertha Dean (Ramsey) Pryor. She graduated from Uniontown High School. She married Richard Strader in Noel, Mo., in 1950, and he preceded her in death March 14, 2003. After early years as a housewife and mother, she worked at the local Sears Roebuck store as credit manager until the early 1980s...

Bourbon County Clerk Kendell Mason has submitted her resignation. Mason told the Tribune Thursday she submitted a letter of resignation to the governor’s office on Monday, Aug. 23. She said her last day as county clerk will be Sept. 13. See the print or online edition of the Tribune for complete story...

Bourbon County officials are moving forward with investigation of an alleged employee wrongdoing. On Wednesday, county commissioners approved Clifton Beth’s motion to allow Commission Chairman Lynne Oharah, Business Manager Susan Bancroft and County Counselor Justin Meeks to investigate a “possible employee malfeasance matter, and if they see fit, to move forward with an outside firm to do that investigation, and to investigate an HR issue.”...

Although no action was taken, USD 234 Board of Education members heard more input Wednesday evening on the divisive issue of wearing masks in schools. During a special meeting, which was held to discuss and consider approval of the district’s 2021-22 budget, the mask issue was revisited as the board heard from a guest speaker, Dr. Doug Shane, a research scientist and school board member in Louisburg...