Stories from Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Linda L. Lee, age 72, a resident of rural Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Sunday, June 3, 2018, at her home. She was born November 20, 1945, in Miami, Okla., the daughter of Chester Lee Barrett and Claudia Elrita Miller Barrett. Linda grew up near Bluejacket, Okla. ...

Meredith June Burnett, age 95, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Saturday June 2, 2018.   Funeral service took place Monday, June 4, 2018 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, La Cygne Chapel.  Burial was in the Oak Lawn Cemetery. The family suggests contributions to Linn County Library District 2...

Aline Lucille Daniel Fairchild, 101, of Tulsa, Okla., formerly of Blue Mound, Mound City, and Fort Scott, Kansas, passed away at Aberdeen Memory Care in Tulsa on Friday, June 1, 2018.  Aline was born in Dallas, S.D., on July 23, 1916, the daughter of Earl Samuel Daniel and Alice Ann Guthrie Daniel. She graduated from Blue Mound High School in 1933. Aline married Francis Edwin Fairchild on May 19, 1935. ...

Evelyn Maxine Ham went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, June 3, 2018. Evelyn was born on April the 8, 1924 to Charles and Francena Holmes Vest. She grew up on the State Line between Prescott and Hume and as a child walked with her brother and sister to the Fairmount Church every Sunday. She graduated from Prescott High School and after high school Evelyn worked at the Western Insurance Company waiting for her high school sweetheart to return from basic training...

CARY, N.C. — Augustana, S.D., won its first-ever NCAA Division II national baseball championship by beating second-seeded Columbus State, Ga., 3-2 in the national championship game here Saturday. Fort Scott High School graduate Chase Brown plays for Columbus State, which finished the season with a 48-14 record. Augustana, undefeated in the tournament, finished 52-8...

Four people will vie for the Bourbon County Commission First District seat in the August primary election. According to information from County Clerk Kendell Mason, the following candidates filed for the seat by the June 1 filing deadline: Lynne Oharah, a Republican from Uniontown; Clinton Walker, a Democrat from Mapleton; Matthew Crystal, a Republican from Fort Scott; and Robert Query, a Republican from Fort Scott...

A house fire near the Devon area over the weekend went unreported until the structure had burned to the ground. Bourbon County Fire District No. 3 Chief Delwin Mumbower said a relative of the residents of a house at 1594 Tomahawk checked the house about 8:30 a.m. Sunday to find it destroyed. Mumbower said the residents were out of town and no one was inside the house at the time of the fire, which started after midnight Saturday or in the early Sunday morning hours...

The residency status of a candidate for the Bourbon County Commission First District seat was the focus of a hearing Monday morning before the county’s objection board. The issue before the board was to determine whether to accept the filing of Robert Query, a Republican who filed May 29 for the seat currently held by incumbent Lynne Oharah, also a Republican, after Bourbon County Public Works Director Jim Harris filed an objection to Query’s candidacy shortly after. ...

PITTSBURG — Pittsburg State University announced its 2018 induction class into the Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame last week. The group – comprised of seven individuals and one team – will be formally inducted during ceremonies on campus in October...