Stories from Monday, February 26, 2018

Joe Dean Hull, age 73, resident of Fort Scott, died Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, at his home following a lengthy illness. He was born on Oct. 5, 1944, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of James Isaac Hull and Ruby Terrill Hull. He married Myrtle Gaston on June 15, 1965, in Nevada, Mo. ...

Helen Marie (Dunnington) Murrow, age 94, Blue Mound, Kan., passed away on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at the Fort Scott Manor. She was born on Jan. 21, 1924 east of Prescott, Kan., the daughter of Fredrick Otto and Ethel Cordell Shaler Dunnington. She married Vernon Edwin Murrow on Aug. 29, 1945 at Iola, Kan.They lived south of Blue Mound all their married life of 56 years. He preceded her in death on May 17, 2002...

Helen Dold Niemeir, age 95, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., made her way home to heaven on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018. She was born March 3, 1922, in Sheldon, Mo., the daughter of Jules Keith Sawyer and Josephine Welker Sawyer. Helen grew up in Parsons, Kan., and attended schools there graduating from Parsons High School with the Class of 1940. ...

Raymond Lee Tourtillott, age 77, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, at his home. He was born Aug. 5, 1940, in Panama, Mo., the son of Denver and Willa Weddle Tourtillott. He graduated from Metz High School. He married Zeta Adams in 1962. ...

Madge Carrie Cox, age 70, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, at the Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott. She was born Feb. 6, 1948, in Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of Bill DeCoudres and Ruby Thompson DeCoudres. Madge graduated from the Fort Scott High School with the Class of 1966. ...