Obituaries

Ricky Dean White (05/10/08)
On Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Ricky Dean White, age 49, passed away at his home in his sleep. Rick was born May 13, 1958, in Nevada, and reared in El Dorado Springs, where he met and married his wife of 28 years, Vicky Lou Ann McFarland White. Rick lived for his strong believe in God and his family. ...

Kay Louise Wanasek (05/10/08)
Kay Louise Wanasek, 66, of Bentonville, Ark., passed away May 8, 2008, at the Bradford House nursing home, after a long and gracious battle with Parkinson's disease. Kay Wanasek was born on Jan. 13, 1942, in Hutchinson, Kan., to Harold and Betty (Collins) Scott. ...

Kenneth Nelson "Kenny" Butler Sr. (05/10/08)
Kenneth Nelson "Kenny" Butler Sr., 77, of Nevada, passed away on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, at Nevada Regional Medical Center following a brief illness. He was born April 1, 1931, in Wheatland, Mo., to William Harvey Butler and Vada Faye Weaver Butler. He married Betty Joan Gire, on Oct. 21, 1951, and she survives of the thome...

Horace Leland Hawkins (05/09/08)
Horace Leland Hawkins, age 74, lifelong resident of Fort Scott and a 60 year Boy Scout, died Wednesday, May 7, 2008, at Guest Home Estates. He was born August 12, 1933 the son of Melvin Hawkins and Edna VanArsdale Hawkins. Horace was a 1953 graduate of Fort Scott High School and attended one year at Fort Scott Community College. ...

Robert "Bob" McClenahan (05/09/08)
Robert "Bob" McClenahan, age 62, passed away at his home on May 7, 2008, after a lengthy illness. He was born to Mildred Barrett McClenahan and Everette McClenahan on July 20, 1945, in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family moved back to the Fort Scott area. Bob graduated from the Fort Scott High School and Fort Scott Junior College. ...

BANGHART (05/08/08)
Martha J. Banghart, 68, of Fort Scott, Kansas died at 3:32 p.m., Monday, May 5, 2008, in the Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Thursday at the Evergreen Cemetery in Fort Scott with Pastor Rick Prideaux officiating. Friends are asked to meet at the cemetery...

MARTHA LOU PARKER (05/08/08)
Martha Lou Parker, age 74, a resident of the Fort Scott Manor, died Monday, May 5, 2008, at the Mercy Health Center. She was born February 12, 1934, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of James Lewis Parker and Lillie Mae Chambers Parker. Martha was survived by three sons; Carl Hardwick, Phoenix, Ariz., Donald Hardwick, Manhattan, Kan., and Randy Rector, Fort Scott; and five daughters, Carolyn Edwards, Aurora, Mo., Terry Lynn Jones, Waco, Texas, Patty Grant, Cassville, Mo., Toni Reinerson, Overbrook, Kan., and Penny Blake, Olathe, Kan. ...

Nola Marie Graham (05/07/08)
Nola Marie Graham, age 89, former resident of the Devon Community and more recently of Pleasanton, Kan., died Sunday, May 4, 2008 at Mercy Health Center Emergency Room. She was born November 28, 1918 in Garland, Kan., the daughter of Rufus Ezra Pellett and Lola Mary Carson Pellett. ...

COOK (05/06/08)
Bobby M. Cook, age 78, resident of 1418 E. Wall, Fort Scott, Kansas died Friday, May 2, 2008 at the Fort Scott Medicalodge. He was born July 22, 1929 in Enid, Oklahoma the son of Guy Carlton Cook and Nellie A. Graves Cook. He married Martha Poyner on April 24, 1955 in Fort Scott. ...

JOHNSTON (05/06/08)
Wilma Belle Johnston, 80, of Blue Mound, Kansas, died Sunday, May 4, 2008 at her home. She was born July 24, 1927 in Farlinville, Kansas, the daughter of Walter and Nettie Giles Cobbs. She graduated from Blue Mound High School. She was married to Paul Johnston on February 18, 1945 at Fort Scott, Kansas. He preceded her in death on December 12, 2001. Wilma worked at Sugar Valley Nursing Home and was a farm wife. She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Blue Mound...

YOUNG (05/06/08)
Raymond Lee Young, 66, of Pittsburg, KS, was called home by our Lord at 6:55 p.m. on Friday, May 2, 2008, at the St. John's Regional Medical Center at Joplin, MO. Ray was born September 9, 1941, in Fort Scott, KS, the son of Emil and Virginia Moyer Young. ...

HEWETT (05/06/08)
Clifford D. Hewett, age 93 former resident of Girard, Kansas, passed away peacefully at the Fort Scott Manor on May 2, 2008. He was born on September 11, 1914, to parents Ivan and Ethel Williams Hewett. Cliff grew up in and around Farlington, Kansas. ...

ADCOX (05/06/08)
Claude William Adcox, age 60, of Osawatomie Kansas died Thursday May 1, 2008 at Indian Meadows in Overland Park, Kansas. Graveside funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday May 6, 2008 at the Jingo Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. ...

Jimmie Lee Simpson (05/03/08)
Jimmie Lee Simpson, 74, of Nevada, passed away on Friday, May 4, 2008, at Moore-Few Care Center, following a lengthy illness. He was born Feb. 21, 1934, in Nevada, to Charlie Floyd Simpson and Minnie Elmira Brown Simpson. He married Valma M. Harper, on Oct. 12, 1956, in El Dorado Springs, and she preceded him in death on Nov. 20, 2006. He devoted six year of his life taking care of Valma until her time of death...

Pat Farr (05/03/08)
Pat Farr, 69, of Fort Scott, passed away Thursday, May 1, 2008, at the Mercy Health Center. She was born Feb. 16, 1939, in Fredonia, Kan., the daughter of Byron and Dorsalena (Shobert) Burnett. She married William Richard Farr Feb. 11, 1972, in Vermillion, S.D. He survives of the home...

Eugene Ray Baldwin (05/03/08)
Eugene Ray Baldwin, 70, Nevada, passed away on Thursday, May 1, 2008, at Kindred Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., following a lengthy illness. He was born March 4, 1938, in Nevada, to Roy William Baldwin and Rachel Allen Baldwin. He married Frances N. Shutters on July 20, 1970, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

FARR (05/02/08)
Pat Farr, 69, of Fort Scott, passed away Thursday, May 1, 2008 at the Mercy Health Center. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Viola Ruth Mundell Levering (05/02/08)
Viola Ruth Mundell Levering, age 93, died Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at the Country View Nursing Home, Prescott, Kansas. Services will be held at 10 a.m., Monday, May 5, 2008 at the United Methodist Church, Mound City, Kansas. Visitation will be from 2:30 to 4 p.m., Sunday at the chapel. Contributions are suggested to United Methodist Church, Mound City or Salvation Army...

ARMSTRONG (05/02/08)
Genevieve Fern Armstrong, age 92, a resident of Fort Scott, died Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. She was born October 31, 1915, at Fort Scott, Kansas, the daughter of Richard Byron Headrick and Mary Frances Barnett Headrick. ...