Stories from Thursday, November 5, 2020

Vera F. Williamson, age 94, Mound City, passed away Nov. 4, 2020. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020 at the Mound City United Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Woodland Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to service time at the church...

Joseph Eldon Harper, age 75, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 of kidney failure and complications of COVID-19. A native of Fort Scott, Joseph spent the last few years of his life at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada, Mo. He is survived by a spouse, Gertrude (Johnston) Harper, two children, Mary Jo and Richard Harper; two grandchildren, Xavier Huffman and Cobie Haynes; one great-grandchild, Mabel Haynes, and family David Shaffer, Carroll Findley, Edna Stein, Wade and Julie Pellett, Nicole Pellett, Elly Booth, Weston Pellett, Dakota Brown, Jacob Pellett, Michael Nighswonger, Thomas Nighswonger, Brian Nighswonger, and Arria Booth.. ...

Rolene Lowry, age 70, resident of Fort Scott, died Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, at Via Christi Hospital, Pittsburg. She was born Dec. 30, 1949, in Moran, the daughter of Ralph and Phyllis Jackson Miller. She grew up in Selma, attending country school there. ...

Roxine Poznich, age 73, resident of Fort Scott, died Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, at her home. She was born in San Angelo, Texas, the daughter of Paul Hufstedler and Ruby Allison. Ruby later married Bob Roe, who raised Roxine as his own daughter. Roxine married Johnie Poznich in 1998 in Weir. He preceded her in death in 2008...

Vonna Lee (Brewer) Grosshart was born May 14, 1947 in Fort Scott, and joined her eternal father on Nov. 2, 2020 in Guthrie, Okla. She is the daughter of Oscar and Lucille (Duncan) Brewer. She was raised in Fort Scott by her maternal grandparents, Jesse and Pauline Duncan. Vonna graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1965 and Pittsburgh State University in 1969 with a degree in social work. She was married in 1969 to Donald Keith and had two children, Jeff Travis and Kara Beth...