Stories from Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Janice (Good) Waltmire, age 86, of Overland Park, Kan., passed away peacefully in her home on Saturday, March 9, 2024. She was born the youngest of four children in Mound City, Kan., on Aug. 20, 1937, to the late Ralph and Hayden Good. Janice met her lifelong love, the late Harvalee Waltmire, in high school, and the two were married in 1958, sharing 65 years together. They moved to Overland Park, Kan., to raise their family before retiring and moving to their farm in Fulton, Kan...

On Saturday morning, March 9, 2024, Peter Michael Graham went to his true home in Heaven. His last hours were spent in his parents’ arms as he peacefully passed away at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., with his grandmothers nearby...

Doris Maxine Basore, age 104, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away Monday, March 10, 2024.  She was born in Bates County, Mo., on Jan. 2, 1920, the daughter of Ray and Verna Chapman Lacy. She graduated from Rich Hill High School in the Class of 1937. Doris was united in marriage to Victor Claude Basore on Feb. ...

Daniel “Danny” Ellis, 92, of Fort Scott, passed away March 10, 2024, in Overland Park, Kansas. Arrangements will be announced by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Bourbon County Commissioners have come to an agreement on ballot language for a sales tax issue that would help fund an emergency department in the county. In a special election planned for May 14, voters will be asked whether they support a one-quarter cent sales tax...

The Fort Scott City Commission on March 5 reappointed members to various city advisory boards. Commissioners approved to reappoint the expired terms of Cheryl Adamson and Carol MacArthur, members of the Fort Scott Planning Commission Board, for another term. The Planning Commission recommended the reappointments Feb. 21...