Stories from Thursday, January 5, 2017

Julia Mary Gotheridge Harris, 93, of Blue Mound, Kansas passed away January 3, 2017 at Olathe Medical Center. Mary was born December 25, 1923 to Daniel H. and Lulu Wilmoth (Freeland) Gotheridge at Culver, Missouri, northeast of Butler. In February 1925, at the age of one, Mary moved with her parents and two brothers to a farm north of Selma, Kansas where she lived until she married. ...

Carey Lee Wileman, 82, former resident of Fort Scott, KS, more recently of Sitka, Alaska died Saturday, December 24, 2016 in the Sitka Community Hospital Long Term Care Unit due to complications from multiple myeloma. She was born May 1, 1934 at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott to Elva and Alice Carey (Wood) Shackelford, the last of the couple's six children. She married Melvin W. Wileman of Stotesbuty, MO on July 4, 1953...