Stories from Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Trisha Anne Purdy, age 24, of Blue Mound, Kan., died as the result of a motorcycle accident on Saturday, June 21, 2014. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday June 26, 2014, at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Mound City, Chapel. Burial will be in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery. ...

Lavon Maxine Embry, age 91, formerly of Fort Scott, more recently of Spring Hill, Kan., died Saturday, June 21, 2014, at the Kansas City Hospice House, Kansas City, Mo. She was born Jan. 27, 1923, in Erie, Kan., the daughter of Ollie and Lettie Knott Fowler. ...

Ira Wilson, 83, of Iola, Kan., died Sunday morning, June 22, 2014 at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kan. He was born March 4, 1931 in Hepler, Kan., the son of Everett and Effie (Runner) Wilson. He married Arleen Geiger Sept. 8, 1957 in Kansas City, Kan., and she survives of the home...

George S. Lotterer, 84, resident of Fort Scott, and Pittsburg, Kan., passed away on June 20, 2014 at the Gran Villas assisted living facility in Pittsburg. Lotterer was the last living proprietor of one of Fort Scott's oldest businesses, Lotterer and Sons, a furniture and appliance store established following the Civil War on Market Street adjacent to the Military Hospital at the present day Fort Scott National Historical Site. ...

Richard Edward Dagen, 69, of Fort Scott, passed away Thursday evening, June 19, 2014 at the Hillside Guest Home. Rich was born June 25, 1944, in Detroit, Mich., the son of Clemet John and Ruby Alice (Taylor) Dagen. Rich enjoyed working as a painter throughout his life, and will be sorely missed by all that knew him...

A thunderstorm that dropped on Bourbon County Friday afternoon caused no extensive damage but did catch local emergency officials by surprise. The storm brought with it 60-mph wind gusts, downed some tree limbs and caused flash flooding in some areas. Delwin Mumbower, coordinator for Bourbon County Fire District No. 3, said Monday the storm was limited to the Devon area...

ng National Avenue north of the Marmaton River Bridge are being asked to use caution this week, as the county asphalt crew makes its way north a half a mile. "We're overlaying the park this morning," Public Works Director Jim Harris said during Monday's Bourbon County Commission meeting. "We'll get that done in the next two days. It's going to be a technical lay because we've got to back the trucks in one at a time ... there's no place to turn around down there."...