Stories from Monday, August 13, 2007

By Rayma Silvers The Fort Scott Tribune _ The 18th annual Capture the Spirit Gala, sponsored by the Mercy Health Center Foundation, will help capture more efficient medical coverage this year. Some of the proceeds from the event will be used to construct an urgent care center located across from the existing emergency room located at Mercy Health Center. ...

UNIONTOWN -- Local residents are preparing for a grand, old-fashioned party this Labor Day weekend -- a party that dates back more than 100 years. The 102nd Annual Old Settlers Picnic -- one of the oldest celebrations of its type in Kansas -- is scheduled to take place Sept. 1-3 in Uniontown. Event organizers said the theme for this year's celebration is "American Pride -- Old Trails Leading to a Promising Future."...

The Good Shepherd organization is awaiting approval from the Internal Revenue Service before it can open a thrift store inside a vacant building on Crawford Street. Within about a month the IRS will likely grant the 501 C-3 non-profit organizational status, said Good Shepherd's administrator Mahlon Stucky. As a result, the organization's status will be classified as tax exempt...

Patricia L. Pinkston, 55, of Pittsburg, formerly of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away at 2:30 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007, at Medicalodge North of Pittsburg. Pinkston was born June 26, 1952, at Roswell, N.M., the daughter of Walter and Lucille Pinkston...

Russell Elvis Fisher, 82, resident of Moran, Kan., died Friday, Aug. 10, 2007, at the Moran Manor Nursing Home. He was born Jan. 13, 1925 in Xenia, Kan., the son of James Thomas Fisher and Ida May Penderson Fisher. He attended school at North Fairview and Bronson, Kan. ...

Thomas Richard McManis, Sr., 54, a resident of Mulberry, Kan, died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2007, at his home. Tom was born Sept. 13, 1952, in Pittsburg, Kan, the son of Thurman Eugene McManis and Helen Marie Barker McManis. He worked for many years as a mechanic for SEK-CAP and also as a caretaker for the Garden of Memories Cemetery for 10 years. ...

Mary Ann Homan, 59, died Aug. 10 in Modesto, Calif. She was born Feb. 24, 1948 in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Goldie (Page) Koppa and Murrel Koppa of Hiattville. She lived in the Manteca and Tracy, Calif., areas for the past two years. Prior to that, she resided in Discovery Bay for 10 years and Livermore for 18 years...

Sharon Lee DiBello age 55 of Richmond, Kan. passed away Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007 at her home. She was born July 24, 1952 at Saint Louis, Mo. the daughter of James L. and Janifer (Sells) Dorsey. She attended grade schools in Saint Louis, Mo.; Charleston, N.C.; Savanah, Georgia and Boston, Mass., before graduating from high school in 1970 at Uniontown, Kan. ...

GARLAND -- Donna Simpson's sister, Carol, lives in Independence and has been spending every available day since the June floods helping with clean-up. Learning how much help is needed there, Donna approached her fellow members at Cherry Grove Baptist Church with a proposal for a mission trip to help flood victims...

The Ellis Foundation, based in Fort Scott, awards scholarships in honor the memory of Kathy Ellis. Their mission is to provide today's youth who have limited resources access to a higher level of education. They do so by enabling individuals, corporations, foundations, organizations, institutions, and communities to partner with them in providing scholarships to prepare capable students to become America's future leaders. ...

The Mayfield reunion is scheduled for Lamar City Park in Lamar Mo., Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. It is a basket dinner. Please don't forget, we want to have enough for everyone. --Submitted by Nadene Sanders

A card shower is being held for Catrine Farmer on her 50th Birthday. Catrine was born on Aug. 14, 1957 to Mr. and Mrs. Heage. She will be celebrating her birthday with family and friends including Dad, Mom, James, Marie, Julie, Melissa, Michael, Aidan and Peyton who are all proud of Catrina's achievements over her lifetime...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) George Hamlin, a young man 27 years of age, whose residence was at No 736 South Lowman Street, and who was employed as a carpenter at the Missouri Pacific shops, died this morning of typhoid fever. There is something unusually sad in the death of this young man. ...