Stories from Monday, May 15, 2023

Final SEK baseball/softball standings The Fort Scott High School varsity baseball team locked up the outright SEK championship with an 11-1 record after capturing a 2-1 victory over Chanute on Thursday. The Tigers won the title for the second time in three years; they shared the crown with Chanute in 2021. It was the Tigers’ first outright championship since 2016. Fort Scott has won 13 SEK championships in baseball, which ranks second in league history behind Pittsburg with 15...

The Fort Scott High School Lady Tiger softball team, the No. 10 seed in the East Regional, will travel to Atchison Tuesday to begin regional play. The Lady Tigers (11-8) will play Independence (13-7, No. 7 seed) at 2 p.m. at Benedictine College. If the Lady Tigers win, they will play the winner of a matchup between Atchison High School/Atchison-Maur Hill-Mount Academy (14-4, No. 2 seed) and Iola High School (6-13, No. 15 seed) in the championship game at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday...

Heaven welcomed its newest Angel….. Eva Irene Lowry On Friday May 12, 2023 at 8:25 am. Many knew her as “Toby” Lovingly nicknamed by her big Brother. She was joyfully welcomed into the world by her parents, Roy Charles Jewell and Bessie Mae Bybee Jewell, on July 27, 1934...

Gerald W. “Jerry” Karleskint, 84, of Frontenac, Kan., passed away on May 14, 2023, at his home in Frontenac, Kan. Jerry was born on July 30, 1938, to Benjamin and Gladys Helen (Lundberg) Karleskint in Fort Scott, Kan. He graduated from Hepler High School. He married Darlene A. DeGruson on March 11, 1961, in Pittsburg, Kan. She survives of the home. Jerry was a lifelong farmer in rural Hepler...

Kenneth Ray Johnson, Mesa, Ariz., was born May 12, 1942 to Gloria Leonhardt Johnson and Menford Dewitt Johnson in Fort Scott, Kan. He grew up in Fort Scott, graduating high school and then enlisting in the Navy where he served on the USS Coral Sea during Vietnam. In the Navy he traveled the world, and he continued to travel throughout his life. He entered into heaven on the evening of May 8, 2023 after a long illness...

Marguerite Anna Edwards, age 91, a former resident of Bronson, Kan., and more recently of Kansas City, Mo., passed away Sunday, May 14, 2023, at St. Luke’s Hospice House in Kansas City, Mo. She was born Feb. 25, 1932, in Harriman, Tenn., the daughter of Amos George Stuehser and Katherine May Hope Stuehser. ...