Stories from Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Audrey Ann Proffitt, age 81, a resident of Prescott, Kan., passed away Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, at the Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kan. She was born Nov. 12, 1937, the daughter of Jesse Belmont Crane and Vera Davis Crane. From the age of 8, she was raised by her father and his wife, Lillian Mayfield Crane. ...

Lela Jean Rogers, age 93, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Monday, March 4, 2019, at the Medicalodge of Fort Scott. She was born Dec. 21, 1925, in Kincaid, Kan., the daughter of Elias Hardy Garrison and Jessie Mae Wolfe Garrison. Her father died when Jean was a child and she was raised by her aunt and uncle Hattie and Audley Bradley. ...

Surrounded by her husband and six children, Patricia “Pat” E. Schwepker, 77, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., passed away Sunday, March 3, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau She was born July 7, 1941, in Pleasanton, Kan., to Earl and Nora Atherton McIntosh. She and Robert “Bob” H. Schwepker were married April 7, 1962, in Fulton, Kan. For the most part, they raised their family in Kansas and moved to Cape Girardeau in the late 1980s...

The Fort Scott Preschool Center will expand to a five-day program next school year following action Monday by the USD 234 Board of Education. Based on a recommendation from administration, the board approved moving the preschool program from a Monday-through-Thursday schedule to a schedule that includes Friday starting in the 2019-20 school year. The need is based upon a rising number of students applying to the program, and other factors, Assistant Superintendent Nicki Traul said...

Integrity Home Care + Hospice announces the opening of its Fort Scott location, offering quality post-acute care and hospice throughout the region. Effective March 1, the home health and hospice provider is located at 902 S. Horton St., where it will provide acute rehabilitation and hospice services, an Integrity press release states...

Longtime Fort Scott City Attorney Bob Farmer announced his plans to resign from the position at Tuesday’s meeting of the Fort Scott City Commission. During the comments portion of the meeting, Farmer said he is “tendering my resignation” effective March 30, and read from a letter he sent to commissioners and City Manager Dave Martin. The letter is dated March 5...

Loretta McLaughlin, 98, formerly of Fort Scott, passed away Monday morning, March 4, 2019, at the Pioneer Ridge Nursing Facility in Lawrence, Kan. She was born June 19, 1920, in Horton, Kan., the daughter of Henry Joseph and Leona Theressa (Hillebrand) Gampper, Sr. She married William Patrick McLaughlin June 12, 1950, in Horton, Kan. He preceded her in death Jan. 21, 1986...