Stories from Thursday, May 12, 2016

Loretta M. Graham, 79, of Fort Scott, died May 10, 2016 in Kansas City, Mo. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Mary Ellen Wratchford, age 74, of Fort Scott, Kan., more recently of Arma Health and Rehab, passed away May 10, 2016. She was born Aug. 6, 1941 in Fort Scott, the daughter of John Henry Carson and Betty Jean Monroe Carson. She married Charles Edward Wratchford on June 6, 1959 in Miami, Okla. ...

Barbara Louise "Barb" Loyd, 61, of Fort Scott, passed away Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at her home. She was born Dec. 30, 1954 in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Ronald Allen "Romey" and Josephine Ruth "Jo" (Keating) Rogers. She married Michael Loyd Sept. 1, 1978 in Fort Scott, Kan., and he survives of the home...

Sharon Kay Baucom, age 70, a resident of rural Fort Scott, Kan., died early Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at the Country View Nursing Home in Prescott, Kan. She was born May 16, 1945, in Wichita, Kan., the daughter of Claude A. "C.A." Boucher and Rosalie Smith Boucher. ...