Stories from Monday, November 28, 2016

Ronald Joe "Ron" Holmes, age 58 of Joplin, Mo., passed away Monday, Nov. 21, 2016 at his home following a short illness. Ron was born Jan. 24, 1958 in Lafayette, Ind., to the late Phillip Holmes and Helen Mattingly Holmes. Prior to illness, Ron worked as a mixer for Annie's Bakery in Joplin. ...

Fred Carl Brown, age 75, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, at the Mercy Hospital Emergency Room. He was born Aug. 7, 1941, in Mack's Creek, Mo., the son of George Brown and Chloe White Brown. He married Janice L. Hanks on Aug. ...

Lester Koch, age 95, a resident of Chanute, Kan., passed away Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. He was born June 13, 1921, at the Johnson Hospital in Chanute, the son of Will Koch and Grace Myers Koch. ...

Dorothy Ruggles of Fort Scott died Sunday, Nov. 27. Services are pending.