Stories from Monday, January 29, 2007

The Bourbon County Relay for Life organization will try to raise $75,000 during its 2007 campaign, planning committee members announced during the organization's official kick-off event last Thursday. About 75 Relay for Life team members -- representing several local businesses -- and other members of the community attended the event, which was held at the Community Christian Church, 1919 S. ...

Donald Elbert Yoos, age 96, formerly of Fort Scott and formerly of Bronaugh, Missouri, died Friday evening, January 26, 2007, at the Cedars Nursing Home in McPherson. He was born June 10, 1910, in Vernon County, Missouri, the son of Henry and Lena Trautwein Yoos. He married Mabel Lydia Snow February 5, 1934, in Nevada, Missouri. She preceded him in death on April 28, 1995...

Mirriam Shauneen Miller, age 65, resident of 924 S. Judson, Fort Scott, Kansas, died Thursday, January 25, 2007, at Mercy Health Center. She was born December 28, 1941, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Julio Dominic Bond and Mercedes White Bond. Shauneen was a 1960 graduate of Fort Scott High School. She graduated from Pittsburg State University with a tri-lingual major in Spanish, French, and Russian. She received her Master's Degree from Pittsburg State in special education...

Merle Dean Beth, age 77, died Friday, January 26, 2007 at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky. Merle retired from Calvert Lumber Company as Yard Foreman in 1991. He was also a farmer and was a member of the Calvert City Church of Christ. Survivors include his wife, Nelda Fisher Beth, Gilbertsville, Kentucky; son, Howard Beth, Calvert City, Kentucky; son, Larry Beth, Kingsport, Tennessee; brother, Ellis Beth, Fort Scott; brother, Albert Beth, Nashville, Tennessee; sister, Carol Smith, Gilbertsville, Kentucky; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.. ...

HOOVER -- Samuel Gabriel Eugene Hoover, a boy, was born at 6:53 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007, at Mercy Health Center to parents Jeremy and Teia Hoover, Fort Scott. He weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces at birth. He joins siblings Justin, McKienze and Caleb. ...

JOHNSON -- Braden James Johnson, a boy, was born at 2:55 a.m. on Friday Jan. 26, 2007, at Mercy Health Center to parents Alecia Coday and Samuel Johnson, Fort Scott. He weighed 7 pounds at birth. Maternal grandparents are Tammy Coday, Iola, and Jim Coday, Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are Darrin and Gwendolyn Morgan, Fredonia...

Last summer, Fort Scott resident Cori Brown took a mission trip with a local group to New Orleans to observe and assist with recovery from the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, a disaster that forever changed the lives of thousands of Louisiana residents. By the time Brown returned from the mission trip, she, too, was forever changed...

She said it started as verbal abuse. Then it turned physical, with allegations that Edward E. Thomas groped and fondled the then 15-year-old girl. From there, she said, it progressed to the point of countless rapes, over a one-year span. Sixth Judicial Magistrate Judge Rebecca Stephan heard enough reason on Friday to bind Thomas, 43, over for trial on charges that he raped the teenager, now 17 years old...

Fort Scott Community College's women remained in third place in the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division after a 48-40 win over Allen County at Arnold Arena Saturday afternoon. The Greyhounds are 6-3 in the East and 14-7 overall. They're a game behind second-place Cowley and two behind Coffeyville...

Memories have to be short in the Jayhawk Conference. For as well as things went for Fort Scott Community College's men in an 88-73 win over Johnson County at Arnold Arena Wednesday night, they went just about as badly in an 87-71 loss suffered to Allen County at home Saturday afternoon...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The Fort Scott Home Builders Union held a most enjoyable session last night at Redman Hall where 18 candidates were initiated. The Girard team came up on the 6:30 Frisco train and in their usual excellent manner conferred the Home Builders Masters Degree...

Mr. and Mrs. Garrold Crays celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on January 27, 2007. Garrold and Iris were married January 27, 1957 at the First United Methodist Church, Fort Scott. Garrold had a 42 year career as a mechanic with Shepherd Team Auto Plaza, retiring in 1998. Iris worked for several years for the Bourbon County Farm Bureau and retired as District Manager after 20 years with the Bourbon County Conservation District...

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery W. Daly announce the engagement of their daughter, Amber Nicole Daly, Fort Scott, to Matthew Joel Kelly, Mapleton. The bride to be graduated from Fort Scott High School in 2005 and works at Gates Rubber Company in Iola. The prospective bridegroom is the son of Wanda and Joel Kelly. He graduated from Uniontown High School in 2002 and graduated from Pittsburg State Electric School and currently works at Page Electric in Parker...

Lindsey Strawder and Eric Peterson were united in marriage on January 13, 2007, at Clearwater Beach in Florida. Parents of the bride are Bob and Kirn Strawder, of Lebo. Grandparents of the bride are Charles Powers and the late Phylis Powers, of Detroit, Michigan and Nancy Strawder and the late Jim Strawder, of Waverly. ...