Stories from Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Donald Adolph Drake passed away peacefully on Feb. 2, 2014, at his home, in Denver, Colo. He was born on March 28, 1936, in Mound City, Kan. He attended the public schools in Fort Scott, Kan., and graduated from Fort Scott High School. Coming from a family with a strong work ethic, he took a job at the Fort Scott Cement Company, but soon realized he was better suited for military service. ...

Steven Ira Nickelson, age 58, died Friday Feb. 7, 2014 as the result of a motor vehicle accident. He was born on Jan. 1, 1956 at Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Ed and Verna Dennis Nickelson. He graduated from Fort Scott High School in the Class of 1974. ...

Jeannine Elizabeth Seal, 85, of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away early Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 at the Fort Scott Manor. She was born Oct. 25, 1928 the daughter of Clarence and Amy Irene (McNulty) Turner. She married Roy T. Seal Aug. 19, 1951 in Pittsburg, Kan. He preceded her in death Jan. 7, 1990...

Rosie B. Murphy, age 97, of Monett, Mo., passed from this life on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 while at the Bentonview Park Health and Rehabilitation Center in Monett. Rosie was born on Jan. 8, 1917 in Clements, Kan., daughter of the late John Henry Scobee and Nancy Ann (White) Scobee. ...

Terry Wayne Hawkins, Sr., age 57, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Saturday, Feb. 8, at St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Mo. He was born Jan. 24, 1957, in Fort Scott, the son of Hazel Marie Hawkins. He graduated from Fort Scott High School with the class of 1976. He married Clessa Kay Coulter on Aug. 22, 1980, at Elm Creek in Fort Scott. Terry worked for Peerless Products for many years. He enjoyed fishing and more recently, hunting. His greatest joy was spending time with his grandchildren...

Harold Dean Koester, 90, of Fort Scott, passed away Monday afternoon, Feb. 10, 2014 at Mercy Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Many 4-Hers and their parents attended the annual Southwind District 4-H Day at Uniontown Saturday.

The Bourbon County Commissioners voted Monday to spend some money in order to determine what improvements can be made to make the courthouse and jail buildings more energy efficient. They signed an agreement with PI Group of Lenexa to inspect the courthouse and Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Facility and review the buildings' blueprints in order to create a Facilities Master Plan. ...

ake quiet zones a reality in Fort Scott are underway. The issue of train noise in Fort Scott has been discussed for several years, and now studies and design work are being done towards the implementation of quiet zones, which would prohibit trains from legally sounding their horns as they approach railroad crossings in town...

Fort Scott High School's basketball teams will play make-up games against Pittsburg Thursday night. These were games originally scheduled for February 4. Also at Thursday's games, the FSHS baseball team's pizza feed, originally scheduled for an earlier date, will be held from 4 to 7:30 p.m. in the high school commons. The proceeds go toward the team's spring training trip to Florida. Two slices of pizza, a drink and dessert will be offered...

ROSE HILL -- Fort Scott High School sent four wrestlers to the Rose Hill Invitational here Friday and Saturday and three of them returned home with medals. Jacob Durossette (24-2), still ranked No. 1 in Class 4A at 145 pounds by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association, beat two other ranked grapplers on his way to the championship. ...

North Central Missouri used an 18-4 run during the second half to take control at Arnold Arena Saturday afternoon and went on to a 68-51 victory over Fort Scott Community College's women in a non-conference contest The Greyhounds, who lost for the fifth consecutive outing, led several times in the last 10 minutes of the first half, going ahead for the first time since scoring the game's first basket on back-to-back Emily Feldman layups with made it 17-16 with 9:49 to go...

Fort Scott Community College's women played well in stretches in a make-up game against Kansas City Kansas at Arnold Arena Monday night. But a Blue Devil run late in the first half held up as the difference in a 67-60 loss to the No. 15-ranked team in NJCAA Division II...

Fort Scott Community College's men broke a nine-game losing streak against Kansas City Kansas Monday night as the Greyhounds climbed into a three-way tie for first place in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division II with Highland and Johnson County with an 84-74 victory...

Women at War, a program at the Fort Scott National Historic Site Saturday, described some of the horrors of wartime in U.S. history for women. The two-part readers theater program featured Fort Scott volunteers and students in Fort Scott Community College Theater Department. ...