Stories from Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Dr. Pratt Irby, age 97, a resident of Fort Scott died on Friday, July 23, 2010 at Fort Scott Manor. He was born May 3, 1913 in Holly Springs, Miss., the son of Pleasant Eugene and Lenora McMullen Irby. He was a 1934 graduate of the University of Mississippi and a 1936 graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine...

Robert Daniel "Bob" Lancaster, 72, of Iola, Kan., died Saturday, July 24, 2010 at the Kansas City Hospice House. Robert was born June 15, 1938, at St. Paul, Kan., the son of Cyril Robert and Ellen Marie (Kennedy) Lancaster. He moved with his family to Louisville, Ky. He returned to the Chanute area and graduated from Chanute High School in 1956...

Sharon Horton, 66, Pryor, departed this life on July 23, 2010 in Pryor, Okla., at the age of 66 years, 10 months and three days. She was born on Sept. 20, 1943 in Fort Scott, Kan., to Joe and Nada (Krull) Sisk. Sharon grew up in Fort Scott, Kan. She attended school there and graduated from Fort Scott High School with the class of 1961...

"Anticipation is greater than realization." It must be true, because for a week before we came down to Fort Scott for the all-school reunion, I was like a kid counting the days before Christmas. Friends of ours were going to Lamar, Mo., to visit relatives and said they would drop us off in Fort Scott and pick us up on their way home. ...

Last Sunday was Parents' Day. Always the fourth Sunday of July, the day is the result of a Congressional resolution that was signed into law in 1994 by President Bill Clinton. The day was created to recognize, uplift and support the role of parents in the rearing of children. In addition to being a day for honoring parents, it's also a good time for some self-reflection on parents' roles...

The Free Will Baptist Church and Arcadia Christian Church are taking donations for school supplies for Arcadia kids. To donate supplies or money for supplies contact Chris Beardon at (417) 843-5617 or call (620) 638-4726 or (620) 638-4429 in Arcadia. Deadline for donations is Aug. 6...

PITTSBURG -- The Crawford County Sheriff's Office is investigating a homicide that occurred Monday in rural Pittsburg, in the vicinity of 943 S. 190th St. At approximately 7:30 p.m., deputies found the body of a male victim. The Crawford County Coroner responded to the scene and the body was transported to Topeka for an autopsy...

As consumers embrace cleaner, greener ways of living and hybrid vehicles become more commonplace on the roadways, Pittsburg State University is preparing its professors to be leaders in hybrid technology education. Recently, the Department of Automotive Technology at PSU was awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to bolster faculty education in the area of hybrid technology. ...

USD 234-owned buses and other vehicles are ready to roll for another year. Kansas Highway Patrol troopers visited the school district Tuesday to conduct regular annual safety inspections of the district's buses and other vehicles. Troopers checked a total of 43 vehicles -- 24 buses and 19 other district vehicles -- for any defects in various components, including windows, windshield wipers, lighting systems, tires and wheels, and emergency equipment, and found no safety violations...