Stories from Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Marjorie Leone (Fisher) Duerson, 92, passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on April 3, 2017. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Thursday, April 6 and services will be held 1 p.m. Friday, April 7, 2017, both at Resthaven Mortuary Chapel with interment immediately following. ...

Lewis Edson Farra, Jr., age 75, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., went to be with his Lord and Savior on Monday, April 3, 2017, at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. He was born on Dec. 11, 1941, in Phoenixville, Pa., the son of Lewis Edson Farra, Sr. and Ferne Elizabeth Swisher Farra. ...

Shelly Ann Scott, age 55, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Monday, April 3, 2017, at her home. She is survived by her mother, Patsy Scott; sister, Carol DeNeff; brother and sister-in-law, John and Linda Scott, Jr.; a niece, Sarah DeNeff; two nephews, John David DeNeff, and Sam Scott; and several aunts, uncles, and cousins. ...

Virginia Stevens, 91, of Fort Scott, died Monday evening, April 3, 2017 at the Presbyterian Village in Fort Scott. She was born May 1, 1925 near Hiattville, Kan., the daughter of Clyde and Vera (Hunziker) Neil. She was the granddaughter of Claud and Mary Allie Baker Neil and Fred and Minnie Tullis Hunziker. She attended Bourbon county schools at Mount Hope, Hiattville, Goff, and Uniontown High School...

Everything Fort Scott High School had scheduled athletically for Tuesday was either postponed or cancelled due to the expectation of bad weather. Tiger baseball versus Pittsburg, which was to be one varsity game and one junior varsity contest, has been rescheduled for April 14. Fort Scott hosts the Adam LaRoche Tournament this weekend at Dave Regan Stadium with pool play Friday and placement games Saturday. The complete schedule can be seen at the end of this summary...

The Bourbon County Commissioners on Tuesday talked with Fort Scott city officials talked about ways the county and city of Fort Scott can increase their collaboration. One of the first steps is working together to provide an Earth Day clean up on April 21 and 22...

Fort Scott Community College’s softball team moved Tuesday’s Jayhawk Conference-Division II doubleheader up a few hours to beat anticipated storms and ended up with a 5-1, 17-9 sweep of Coffeyville at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex in their first action since March 28. The Greyhounds were unable to play road doubleheaders as scheduled Friday or Saturday. They were to play at Hesston in a Region VI twinbill Friday and in Hutchinson for a Region VI/Jayhawk Conference double dip on Saturday...

Fort Scott city officials have named the new manager of tourism for the city. During the Tuesday meeting of the Fort Scott City Commission, Director of Economic Development Rachel Pruitt introduced Larry Gazaway, currently a broadcaster with Fort Scott Broadcasting who is known locally as “The Voice of Fort Scott,” as the city’s new full-time tourism manager...

IOLA – No. 20 Fort Scott split a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader here Saturday but that was enough to keep the Greyhounds in the lead by themselves in the division. Allen won the opener, 5-4, in the bottom of the seventh but the Greyhounds took the second game, 9-5...