Stories from Friday, December 21, 2018

Donna Lynn Bruner, age 73, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, at the Mercy Hospital emergency room. She was born on Sept. 22, 1945, in Nevada, Mo., the daughter of Ava “Brownie” Brown and Ethel Goins Brown. She attended Fort Scott schools until December of her senior year when her family moved to Spring Hill, Kan. ...

Elvis M. Reeder, age 87, resident of Bronson, Kan., died Friday morning, Dec. 21, 2018, at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Mo. Services for Elvis Reeder will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

Tommy Lee Lawrence, age 58, resident of Fort Scott, died Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, at the Mercy Hospital Emergency Room. Services for Tommy Lawrence will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

Paul Vernon Russell, age 87, a life-long resident of Redfield, Kan., passed away Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018, at the Medicalodge in Fort Scott. He was born July 1, 1931, on the family farm in Redfield, the son of John Russell and Muriel Boileau Russell. ...

The family of Mabel L. Miller, 91, who passed away Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, would like to invite family and friends to a memorial service in her memory. The memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018 at the Hiattville United Methodist Church. There will be a visitation following the service...

When Mercy Hospital Fort Scott closes its doors Dec. 31, it will mark the end of a health care institution and ministry that began more than 130 years ago. The Tribune is looking back on Mercy’s history in the community, from the time two Sisters arrived in Fort Scott and started a hospital, to the Oct. 1 announcement of the hospital’s plan to close its inpatient services, the emergency department and ambulatory surgery...