Stories from Friday, October 17, 2014

Isabell J. Palmer, 85, homemaker, passed away Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. Isabell is preceded in death by her husband, Willard L. Palmer; son, Vern Palmer; daughter, Carolyn Staudacher; and grandchildren, Teresa Bibb and Hunter Hughbanks. Survivors include her daughters, Linda McGovern and Evelyn Mast; eight grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. ...

Doris Evelyn Wagner, 94, formerly of Fort Scott, died Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 in Auburn, Calif. She was born July 31, 1920 in Eureka, Kan., the daughter of Paul Wendell and Nina Evelyn (Welch) Stiffler. She married Robert H. Wagner Dec. 27, 1942 in Fort Scott, Kan., and he preceded her in death June 21, 1980...

Elizabeth Annete York, age 53, Nevada passed away Oct. 16, 2014 at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced by Ferry Funeral Home at a later date.

taught over the years, new USD 234 Superintendent Bob Beckham is learning. Beckham, 54, who took over as the district's new superintendent in July, replaced former superintendent Diane Gross, who resigned the position in April to take the superintendent's position in Clearwater USD 264...

Victims of domestic violence in Bourbon County have a way out. That was the message of Angela Meyer, president of the board for the Safehouse Crisis Center, and Vicky Polen, a victim's advocate at Safehouse. They presented the program at a recent Fort Scott Rotary meeting...

Each third Thursday of the month, the United Mission Baptist Church, located at 16 N. Ransom serves a free family meal. The meal is served from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Just three weeks into district play and tonight's game between Marais des Cygnes Valley and Uniontown will be one which goes a long way toward determining which teams advance to the Eight-Man Division I playoffs out of District 1 and where they will be playing their Bi-District playoff game...

ollege takes its longest road trip of the season this weekend in quest of a victory that will keep another losing year at bay --at least for one more week. The Greyhounds will be in Garden City to take on the Broncbusters in Jayhawk Confefence play in the first meeting between the schools at GCCC's new stadium...

Class 4A-Division I District 4 play opens tonight when Chanute comes to Frary Field to meet Fort Scott High and Labette County hosts Paola. For those new to high-school football, the last three weeks of the regular season are district games, which are essentially a four-team round-robin playoff for two spots in the Class 4A-Division I playoffs...

Fort Scott Middle School's seventh-grade football team won a high-scoring affair at Frary Field while the eighth graders fell by one point in a defensive battle. The seventh grade beat Altamont, 38-28, as quarterback Brody Bowles accounted for 164 yards in total offense and three scores. The eighth-grade lost, 7-6, to Altamont as the Grizzlies intercepted two passes in the fourth quarter...

HIGHLAND -- Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team used a week-long break to its advantage here Wednesday night and beat Highland, 3 sets to 1, in a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division match. Scores were 25-7, 15-25, 25-11, 25-14. The 'Hounds (5-2 East, 25-5 overall) last played on October 8 when they lost to then-No. 7-ranked Kansas City Kansas, the last of seven matches in nine days. Having gone 21-2 in their first 23 matches, Fort Scott had split its next six...

Fort Scott High School junior Jennifer Harrison got into playing tennis because her older sister, Corina, needed someone to practice with. "When I was in fifth grade, Corina, who was on the team when I was a freshman, said, 'I need someone to hit with me,' because she decided she wanted to play as a freshman (2009)," Jennifer said. "And I said, 'OK, I'll hit with you.' And then we just all started hitting as a family and I've liked it ever since."...

Sentencing has been rescheduled for a former Bourbon County Clerk's office employee who pleaded guilty last month to three counts she faced stemming from a 2012 incident involving theft from the county. According to information from the Bourbon County District Court Clerk's office, sentencing for Angela Timi, 29, of Fort Scott, has been moved from 10:15 a.m. Nov. 19 to 10:30 a.m. Nov. 10 in Bourbon County District Court...

U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins gave members of the Fort Scott Rotary Club a federal government update during her visit to town Wednesday. Jenkins, who toured Tri-Valley Developmental Services in Fort Scott prior to the meeting, talked to Rotarians in July, focusing on the economy, the federal budget and the national debt...

When the weather starts cooling down in the fall, the soup begins heating up at the First United Methodist Church. Starting in October, community members can come together for some food, faith and fellowship during the Friendship Soup Lunches, which take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the church's basement on the third Friday of each month through March. The meals are sponsored by one of the organizations within the church...

Janet Louraine Noel Prinkey, 82, recent resident of Fort Scott, Kan., and long time resident of San Leandro, Calif., took the next step in her journey on Oct. 10, 2014. Janet is survived by her youngest daughter Vicki Lynn and her husband Tim Tureskis, who were her devoted caretakers, daughter Yvonne Marie and favored son-in-law, Gordon Rahmes, her eldest daughter Renee and her partner Dawn, grandsons Joshua Rahmes and Destry Evans, granddaughter Destiny Evans and her life partner Jared Watkins and three great grandchildren Samuel, Nalia, and Bianca Rahmes, who is due to arrive at any time.. ...

Elizabeth Annete York, age 53 on Nevada, MO passed from this life at 10:54 a.m. Thursday, October 16, 2014 at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada. She was born January 6, 1961 in Kansas City, the daughter of Irvin Alfred and Ina Vernetta (Hill) Cochran. On December 23, 1983 she was united in marriage to Michael Allen York. He preceded her in death in 1998...

Idabelle Bradley Ostrum, 89, died suddenly on Aug. 2, 2014 in Austin, Texas during a short hospital stay. She was born on Jan. 4, 1925 in Topeka, Kan., the second child and only daughter of Aubrey J. and Neta Bernice (Davis) Bradley. She lived in Rock Creek, Kan., until 1926 when the family moved to Blue Mound, Kan., where they lived with her paternal grandparents until 1927. ...