Stories from Thursday, January 14, 2016

Ila Mae Fite, age 88, of Iola, Kan., passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016 at her home. Funeral service will be held 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016 at the Iola Baptist Temple. Graveside committal service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Fort Scott National Cemetery. Ila Mae will lie in state until 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel...

Marvin Leon 'Wimpy" Williams, Sr., age 94, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, at Mercy Hospital. He was born March 5, 1921, in Fort Scott, the son of Ernest LeRoy Williams and Leah May Sauvain Williams. He married Margie Emeline James on Dec. ...