Mother's Day, graduation celebrations held

Sherry Sisney came from Indiana to visit her daughter, Sherida Sisney, in the Kansas City area then spent some time with her mother, Helen Sisney, and attended the graduation exercises at Pittsburg State University to see her son, Brock Sisney, receive his B.S. degree this past week. Her sister, Susan Cherry, from Kansas City, attended the high school graduation of her son, Logan Cherry, from the Girard High School.

Apology to the Watt family. It was Bill Watt who visited with his mother, Mae Watt, and attended church with her on Mother's Day, not Tom Watt as reported. Birthday offering for Tom Watt's 60th birthday was given the following Sunday.

May 14, Ralph Shead, Carl Junction, Mo., and his uncle, Charles Corporon, Pittsburg, enjoyed lunch together at El Charro in Joplin, Mo.

Bob Garrett, formerly from Arcadia, has returned to his home in Liberal, Mo. where he is the mayor. He has been taking treatments in the Mayo Clinic. His friends in his home town wish him well.

Birdie Malone, one time resident of rural Arcadia, received a small bird house with her Mother's Day card this month in keeping with her name. Speaking of Liberal folks, readers enjoyed Ona Mae Winship's article about different names of parts of a chicken as they were called in the good old days such as a pulley bone or wishbone or a leg, called a drumstick.

Announcements made in Arcadia Christian Church on May 16 were for the kids skating party to be May 21. The summer program for them will start June 7, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be lunch, crafts, cooking and other fun activities. This includes kids ages 6 to 13. Friends of these class members are welcome to invite their friends.

A good crowd attended church services on Sunday, May 16 including some friends of Steve and Karen Mizer and Sam Truesdell who came to this area from Indiana to attend relatives' graduation. Local visitors with Mae Watt were Bob and Linda Roweth from Redfield, the pastor's home town.

Mark and Haley Shead, with Katie and Benjamin, returned to Fort Scott on Wednesday after spending two weeks in Georgetown, Texas, with Haley's mother D.J. Davis and family in honor of Mother's Day.

In reading the Morning Sun May 1, folks in Arcadia were pleased to see the picture of Oralee Morey pictured under Patrick's People. We didn't realize just who she was until we read about her being born in Arcadia, daughter of Richard and Anna Mae Foster. We know her by her middle name Phoebe Foster. We old timers knew her parents and foster grandparents who lived nearby. Both homes were near the long gone Fire Baptized Holiness church "on the hill." Perhaps she may remember her neighbors as Fannie Ullum, Mr. and Mrs. Willard, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bailey and the Corporon kids as school friends living not far away. The article on her successful life was a pleasure to read and congratulations on her 79th birthday from Mary Virginia Shead, the Corporon kid who remembers her.