Stories from Monday, March 11, 2024

Richard Eldon Baldwin, age 60, of Butler, Mo., formerly of Pleasanton, Kan., passed away Monday, March 4, 2024.   A memorial service was held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 9, 2024 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel. Visitation was held from 1 p.m. ...

Ronnie Lee Felt, age 85, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at the Via Christi Medical Center, Pittsburg, Kan. He was born Nov. 4, 1938, in Fort Scott, the oldest son of Kenneth Marcellus Felt and Sylvia Mae Beerbower Felt. He graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1956. ...

Grace M. Hockett, 88, of Hutchinson, died March 7, 2024. She was born Oct. 7, 1935, in Fort Scott, Kan., to Stanley and Laura (Perkins) Miller. Grace attended Fulton High School. A graduate of Fort Scott Community College, she worked at Mercy Hospital as an RN on the fifth floor, later as a nursing home administrator at Marmaton Valley Nursing Home, Uniontown, Kan. Grace was an artist at heart...

M. Donald “Don” Russell, 74, went to be with his heavenly father on March 8, 2024, after a long fight with kidney and heart disease.   He was born in Kansas City, Kan., on Nov. 18, 1949, to James L. Russell and Ruth E. Selbe. He was accompanied in birth that day by his twin sister, Maurita “Rita” Garnette Russell (West).  Don and Rita were eventually a part of a family that included 12 boys and two girls.  ...