Stories from Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Lucile Gwendolyn Slater, 89, formerly of Fort Scott and Overland Park, Kan., died Sunday afternoon June 28, 2015 at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Wash. Funeral arrangements for Lucile Slater are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home...

Audree Hicks waves as she rides in a rocket in the Redfield Independence Celebration parade Saturday. The parade kicked off the celebration for the community. Games for kids and adults followed, including horseshoe pitching and a cakewalk. A free ham and beans dinner was served at noon...

Uniontown will celebrate the 10th annual Independence Day Bash, always held on July 3, beginning at 7 p.m. Friday at the city park. "This event was started by the Park Improvement Committee in, I think, 2005," Kenny Holt, Union State Bank president said. It started as the result of a citizen who felt the beautiful city park on the town's square wasn't used enough...

Clara Pigg Schwartz, 94, and Esther Anne Weeks Sewell, 92, are members of the oldest classes represented at the Fort Scott High School Alumni Reunion this weekend. They are from the class of 1938 and 1939 respectively, according to Diana Endicott, president of the alumni association...