Stories from Friday, April 5, 2013

Marvin Winfred Ward, 83, died March 26, 2013, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born May 17, 1929, in Hutchinson to Isaac Winfred and Marjorie Regina Siegle Ward. He graduated from Graber High School in 1947. On Feb. 12, 1950, he married Edna Clare Stanley in Alva, Okla. She died Sept. 26, 2010...

Lois Faye Dunsworth Campbell, age 72, passed away March 7, 2013 at the Sawannee Health Care Center in Live Oak, Fla. Lois Faye was born Feb. 14, 1941, in Fort Scott, Kan. She was the daughter of the late Lewis James and Opal Faye Dunsworth. Lois Faye grew up in the Hammond Community and graduated from Fort Scott High School...

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., got a glimpse of Fort Scott's Business of the Year during a brief visit to town Thursday morning. Moran joined company officials, as well as representatives of the City of Fort Scott and Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce for a tour of Carlisle Power Trans Products, a local manufacturer of agricultural and industrial drive belts, that won the chamber's Business of the Year award during an annual chamber event last month...

Angela Bates still remembers the aroma of her mother's chocolate cake and the perks of being the daughter and niece of domestic workers in southern California. "You could smell it when you walked in the room," Bates said of Charlesetta Williams Bates' popular dessert...

The Garland Fire Board officially announced the appointment of a new fire chief and replaced two of its members during a special meeting Thursday night. Carl Cotton is the new fire chief and will be working with Connie May, who took her seat as a new fire board member. Her responsibility will be to assist Cotton with any issues that arise at times when the board cannot meet...

On Thursday, March 14, residents of Bourbon County were invited to take photos of people at work in Fort Scott and/or Bourbon County for the "A Day in the Life of Fort Scott's Working World" Photo Contest. Nineteen photographers participated and submitted 112 photos. Of those submissions 12 photographs were chosen to be a part of the exhibit...

PITTSBURG -- The rosters have been finalized for the seventh annual KSEK/KLKC Via Christi All-Star Basketball Games, which will be played Sunday at St. Mary's-Colgan Fieldhouse here. A total of 21 girls and 20 boys from Southeast Kansas have been recognized with selection. ...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's softball team scored 19 runs in a sweep of Pittsburg in Southeast Kansas League play here Thursday, 10-2 and 9-3. The Tigers took the lead in the Southeast Kansas League with the sweep at 2-0. They're 4-0 overall going into today's Fort Scott Tournament, which is being made up after it was postponed on March 26...