Stories from Wednesday, January 4, 2017

MOUND CITY -- Uniontown dropped a pair of non-league games to Three Rivers League rival Jayhawk-Linn here Tuesday night. The Jayhawks took the girls' game, 33-28, despite 22 points from Shalina Harper. The Eagles fell to 2-5 with the loss. Jayhawk-Linn improved to 3-2...

ALTAMONT -- Fort Scott High School's basketball teams were swept by league-leading Labette County squads here Tuesday night as all Southeast Kansas League teams except Independence resumed play following the holiday break. Fort Scott's girls held a 10-8 lead with about three minutes remaining in the first quarter but LCHS went on an 11-0 run that have them control as the Grizzlies went on to a 64-33 victory...

The Bourbon County Commission had a light agenda for its first meeting of 2017 as they discussed some end-of-year reports and conducted other routine business. Southeast Regional Correctional Center Major Bobby Reed provided commissioners with a year-end report that included figures on bookings for 2016...

Concerns about the possible location of a dirt race track in Fort Scott were voiced during a Tuesday evening meeting of the Fort Scott Planning Commission. Several local residents filled the commission meeting room at City Hall to hear details on a proposal by a local company to locate a dirt race track on land south of Jayhawk and Liberty Bell Roads. ...

F. Duane Dugan, 90, died Jan. 1, 2017, at Great Bend Regional Hospital, Great Bend. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, at Bryant Funeral Home with the Rev. Loren W. Hickerson officiating. Burial will be in Great Bend Cemetery...

Wynona Weaver, age 77, Blue Mound, Kansas passed away Saturday, December 31, 2016 at the Olathe Medical Center. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at the Chapel Hill Funeral Home in Kansas City, Kansas. Visitation were held Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Mound City Chapel. ...

Gloria Parenteau Martone (January 15th, 1924 -- December 29th, 2016) -- no one had a lap like hers. She could fit two large adults comfortably on her glorious lap. It was so nice to sit next to her, or on her, and to laugh and laugh with her. She loved BINGO, Rhode Island, good food, handsome men, and her family. ...

Edward Lewis Thomas II, age 72, a resident of Fort Scott, Kansas, died Monday, January 2, 2017, at his home. He was born May 4, 1944, in Fort Scott, the son of Edward L. Thomas and Wilma Ellen Barker Thomas. Ed graduated from Newton (Kansas) High School with the Class of 1962. ...

Hazel Joan (Hess) Shelton, born April 26, 1935, at Hume, Mo., to Norman Ray Hess and Vena Viola (Davidson) Hess, passed quietly surrounded by her husband, James Kenneth Shelton, and her family on Wednesday, Dec. 28. Hazel was married to Kenny Shelton, who survives of the home, on July 4, 1954, at Independence Church, Hume. ...

John Clay Simons, Sr., age 61, a resident of Fort Scott, Kansas, passed away Monday, January 2, 2017, at the Fort Scott Mercy Hospital Emergency Room. He was born February 5, 1955, in Santa Paula, California, the son of William Jack Simons and Welcome Irene "Becky" Floyd Simons. ...

Adam and Kayla Tadlock of Arcadia announce the birth of their daughter, Kyelar Mariah-Ann Tadlock, at 1:35 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30, 2016 at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. She weighed 7 pounds, 6.3 ounces and measured 20.5 inches at birth.

Kasandra Wallace and Nick Wallace of Fulton announce the birth of their son, William Rosewell Wallace at 7:48 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016 at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. He weighed 6 pounds, 7.5 ounces and measured 20 inches at birth.

Rebecca Barentine of Mound City announces the birth of her son, Dakota Berdell Elliott, at 2:32 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30, 2016 at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. He weighed 6 pounds, 4.5 ounces and measured 18 3/4 inches at birth.

Shannon Skaggs and George Skaggs of Frontenac announce the birth of their daughter, Savannah Elizabeth Skaggs, at 9:24 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017 at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. She weighed 5 pounds, .8 ounces and measured 18.5 inches at birth.

Ronda Peterson announces the birth of her granddaughter, Rachel Marie Peterson, to Dusty and Misty Peterson at 10:01 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016 at St. Francis Health Center, Topeka. She weighed 9 pounds, 1 ounce and measured 20.5 inches at birth. She joins siblings Andrew, 5, and Joseph, 3...

Jennifer Wallace and Jimmie Miller of Centerville announce the birth of their son, Elie Vett Miller, at 6:28 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017 at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. He weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces and measured 20.5 inches at birth. Elie Vett was listed as the first baby born at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott in 2017...

Steven Lee Kruse, 50, of Hepler, Kansas, died Monday, January 2, 2017 at his residence in Hepler. Steven was born July 18, 1966 in Munich, Germany, the adopted son of Charles and Dolline (Pulliam) Kruse. Steven came to the United States in 1967, grew up in Hepler and attended Hepler Grade School, and graduated from Girard High School in Girard, Kansas. He graduated from the electrical trade school at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas...

Jane E. Milburn, 65, of Fort Scott, passed away early January 3, 2017. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.