Arcadia Area News

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

On election day in Arcadia, Patty Peterson, greeter, was the first person to vote. Thirty-nine people voted throughout the day with only one person using the voting machine. Twenty-one advanced ballots were reported. Linda Morris was the board manager and Mary V. Shead, clerk. Justin Hart of Girard, was the area supervisor who checked in from time to time. Don Shaub was the last to vote.

Feb. 27, the Cato Historical Preservation Society met in Arcadia Community Building with seven members present. Susie Stelle presided at the meeting. Old-time school record books were passed for reading and enjoying. Two of the teachers listed were Hazel Smith and Hazel Endicott. Prof. Rambo was the county superintendent. The group meets the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Interested folks are welcome.

Sunday, Feb. 25, a birthday dinner was held for Gary W. Peterson, Jeannie Peterson and a belated dinner for Kristin and Steve Girard in Arcadia at the Peterson home. Others present were hostess Patty Peterson, Don Hencey, Gary D. Peterson, Gracie and Megan Peterson, Kelci Newkirk, and Jack and Sam Girard.

Jack Corporon, former reporter for The Morning Sun in Pittsburg, visited Arcadia recently en route to the University of Kansas. He is a trustee of the William Allen White Foundation at K.U. He visited his sister Mary V. Shead in town, Bill Dobbins, in Frontenac, and brother, Nelson and Eloise Corporon in Webb City. Jack attended Pitt State and is a graduate of Kansas University Journalism school. He retired as vice president of news at WPIX, N.Y., and is past president of the Overseas Press Club. He is married to Harriet Sloan Corporon, formerly of Pittsburg.

On Feb. 2, Lilly and Jerry Coonrod traveled to Fritch, Texas, for the memorial service for her brother Gerald Turner. He was born Jan. 11, 1927, in Oskaloosa, Mo., to Homer and Alberta Page Turner. He died Jan. 31 in Amarillo, Texas. He was a World War II veteran. He married Doris Scott of Arcadia after the war.

Their daughters are Linda Simon, Arkansas City, Rebecca Wick, Guthrie, Okla., and Stephanie Gray, Enid, Okla. His stepson is Ron Billiard, Fort Scott.

He married again and to that union was born Tina Turner, Amarillo, Texas. He is also survived by three sisters, Lois Wills, Great Bend, Margaret Jones, Lincoln, Neb., and Lilly Coonrod, Arcadia.

Forrest and Ernestine Berkey enjoyed dinner at the Corner Café in Arma before attending the Elvis O'Rama on the evening of Feb. 17 at the Mirza Shrine in Pittsburg. She won the tickets from The Morning Sun. She also won an Elvis T-shirt as a door prize.

Classmates were sorry to learn of the death of Clarence Moody, who graduated from Arcadia High School, in 1936, and regularly attended the yearly alumni dinners in May. He died in Golconda, Ill., on Monday, Feb. 26. On Friday, March 2, a classmate from 1937 graduates, Della Belle Teague Leonard died in McPherson, Kan. Her brother is Wiley Teague, of Arcadia. A cousin to Moody, is Marilyn Dubray of Liberal, Mo.