Stories from Monday, April 30, 2018

Pauline Stoughton Beeler, age 95, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Sunday, April 29, 2018, at the Mercy Hospital Emergency Room. She was born Aug. 4, 1922, in Mapleton, Kan., the daughter of Frederick and Mary Faulhaber Stoughton. She attended Mapleton grade school, Blue Mound High and Fort Scott Junior College. ...

Carol Louise (Meme) Welch, age 77, former resident of Fort Scott, and more recently of Overland Park, Kan., died Sunday, April 29, 2018 at St. Luke’s South Hospital. She was born Dec. 14, 1940, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Victor Carpenter and Lucille Willey Carpenter. ...