Stories from Friday, October 19, 2018

Rose A. Johnston, 89, of Kansas City, MO passed away Oct. 17, 2018. Rose was the youngest of five daughters born to Edward and Ruth Fetrow in Haddam, Kan. She graduated from Kansas State Teacher’s College in Emporia, Kan. She chose to go into education because she had always enjoyed learning and had tremendous respect for her teachers and an uncle who taught and was a principal. ...

Spencer Ross Burris, Jr., 74, Blue Mound, Kan., passed away on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 at his home. A graveside funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22, 2018 at the Curry Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. until departure for cemetery at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Mound City Chapel. Contributions can be made to Care to Share, in care of Schneider Funeral Home, P.O. Box J, Mound City, KS 66056...

Mabel L. Miller, 91, of Fort Scott, Kansas, passed away Friday, October 19, 2018, at Via Christi in Pittsburg, Kansas. Arrangements will be announced by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Virginia Carol Lightwine, 88, a resident of Fort Scott, Kansas, passed away Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, at Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. She was born Sept. 5, 1930, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Lee W. Braden and Myrtle Brock Braden. She worked as a clerk for Western Insurance Company, American States Insurance, and retired from Newman Young Clinic. Virginia was member of the First Christian Church, the Red Hat Society, and was a pink lady for Mercy Hospital...

Mary E. Harkins, of Deerfield, Mo., passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2018, at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan. Mary was born to James Edward and Patricia Jean Gladbach (Renicker) on Sept. 13, 1963, in Sedalia, Mo. After spending her developing years in Concordia, Kan., she graduated from Uniontown (Kan.) High School, in 1981. ...

Fred Moulton, 95, of Thayer, shows a group of youngsters how to use an antique corn shelling machine Friday afternoon at the Bourbon County Fairgrounds. The demonstration was part of activities in the annual Pioneer Harvest Fiesta, which began Thursday night with a downtown parade and continues through Sunday. The event includes antique farm equipment demonstrations, a quilt show and an arts and crafts show, as well as vendors and a music...

Developments continue on a proposed multi-million dollar project to expand and extend the runway at the Fort Scott Municipal Airport. City officials have applied for a federal grant through the Federal Aviation Administration to fund a project that would expand the current runway an additional 2,500 feet and widen it an extra 12 feet on each side. State and federal grants have been sought as engineering and survey work continues on the project...

Leslie Shankles is coming home. A Missing in Action soldier from World War II, Shankles’ remains will be returned to Bourbon County, where he will be buried following a graveside service at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at the U.S. National Cemetery at Fort Scott with full military honors...