Stories from Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Clifford Johnson, age 88, Drexel, Mo., passed away on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017 at North Point in Paola, Kan. Funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory La Cygne Chapel. Burial will be in the Goodrich Cemetery. ...

Patricia Marylyn Layton, age 84, former resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, at Medicalodges of Girard, Kan. She was born Jan. 12, 1933, in Twin Oaks, Mo., the daughter of George Schwanz and Aline Wilkinson-Killion. She married Orville Layton, on July 1, 1963, in Fort Scott. ...