Stories from Thursday, December 8, 2016

The Care to Share cancer support group will hold a fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday at the Church of the Nazarene, 1728 S. Horton, to help the family of Rushton Hicks with travel expenses to Seattle, Wash., for treatments. Rushton was born July 14, 2015 and diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. He has been treated since June 5, 2016 at Children's Mercy in Kansas City, without success of remission...

Martha Jane Petrie, 84, of Bronson, Kansas, passed away at Mercy Hospital early Wednesday morning, December 7, 2016. She was born January 12, 1932 in Fort Scott, the daughter of John and Pearl Marie (Martin) Mitzner. Martha married Kenton L. Wilson. ...