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Joan Savage, age 78, former resident of Fulton, died Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 at the Baldwin Health and Rehab, Baldwin, Kan. Funeral arrangements for Joan Savage will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

Conner William Hawes, age 22 months, died Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25 at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Burial will follow in the Mt. Olive Cemetery, Pittsburg, Kan. Memorials are suggested to Kansas Care Portal and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, P.O. Box 347, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott, KS 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com...

Anthony (Tony) Alexander Knodel passed away Aug. 9, 2017, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kan.. He was born to Arnold and JoAn (Hinn) Knodel in New Rockford, N.D., on Aug. 31, 1956, and resided on the family farm near Manfred, N.D., until the age of nine when the Knodel family, which now included his sister Stefanie, moved to Torrance, Calif...

George M. O’Neal, age 92, former resident of Fort Scott, died Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017, at the Laurels Nursing Home in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Funeral arrangements for George O’Neal will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

Kelly Wayne Filkel, 62, of Fort Scott, Kan., died Saturday at his residence. Kelly was born Oct. 25, 1954 in Girard, Kan., a son of Charles Wayne and Maxine Opal (Baker) Filkel. He grew up at rural Girard and graduated from Girard High School. He graduated from Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kan...

Janet Dody Sutherland lived life with the singular goal of making the world a better place. She loved to learn and to teach, and she spent her life sharing those passions with her family and the students and friends who meant so much to her. Janet was born and raised in Fort Scott, Kan., but after she and her husband Jim were recruited in 1962 to teach in Council Bluffs, this became her corner of the world to change. ...

James Arthur Taylor, 91, Lawrence, died Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, at the University of Kansas Hospital. Mr. Taylor was born Aug. 24, 1925 in Washington, Kan., the son of Arthur George and Edith Selmer Taylor. He earned a B.S. at the University of Kansas in 1950 and went on to earn his D.D.S. at the University of Missouri in 1954...

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. ...

Willard Dale “Bill” Good, age 86, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, at his home. He was born Dec. 2, 1930, in Elkhart, Ind., the son of Jacob Good and Ada Grace Christophel Good. Bill graduated from Elkhart High School and later attended Arlington State University in Arlington, Texas. ...

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. ...