Stories from Monday, December 27, 2021

Leslie David George, 78, of Uniontown, passed away Thursday evening, Dec. 23, 2021 at his daughter’s home in Edmond, Okla. Funeral services for David George will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021 at the First Church of God in Fort Scott, Kan. The Family will receive friends from 6 until 7 p.m., Monday, Dec. ...

Mary Irene “Sug” Beckford, 90, formerly of Fulton, Kan., passed away Thursday morning, Dec. 23, 2021 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kan. Funeral arrangements for Mary “Sug” Beckford are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home...

Leslie “David” “Dee” George was welcomed into the arms of Jesus on Dec. 23, 2021. He was born in Fort Scott, Kan., on Dec. 30, 1942. He graduated from Uniontown High School and Pittsburg State University. He married the love of his life, Barbara Irene Davis, on June 3, 1962, and she preceded him in death on Nov. ...

Harry Lee Armstrong, age 87, La Cygne, Kan., passed away Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021. Graveside service will be held 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 31, 2021 at the Benjamin Cemetery, Amoret, Mo. Lee will lie in state Thursday, Dec. 30 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday from 9 am to 12 noon at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, La Cygne Chapel. ...

After a two-week hospital stay with an unconfirmed diagnosis, Todd Spencer Woodward, a 2003 Fort Scott High School graduate, died on Dec. 1, 2021, in Auburn, Wash. Todd was born to Barbara Doherty Woodward and John Spencer Woodward in Ocean Springs, Miss., on July 26, 1984. Todd was proceeded in death by his father John “Woody,” his grandparents Margaret and John Woodward, and Delores and Bernard Doherty...

Louis McDowell Steele, 96, of Bronaugh, Mo., passed away peacefully in his sleep on Dec. 26 after a brief illness. He was born March 31,1925 in Pittsburg, Kan. Lou Mac was preceded in death by his parents, James McDowell and Dawn Dunton Steele; his wife, Polly Steele; and his former wife, Ladine Menchetti...