Stories from Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Edward Blair Byerley, 91, passed away peacefully on Dec. 24, 2018, at Country Place Senior Living Center, Fort Scott, Kan. Ed was born in Mapleton, Kan., on April 20, 1927. He was the only child of Blair D. “Sandy” Byerley and Myrtle P. Byerley (Brown). Ed graduated from Fulton High School, Kan., in 1945 and joined the U.S. Navy shortly thereafter...

Jackie Darell Link, age 78, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Sunday, March 24, 2019, at his home at Lake Fort Scott. He was born Feb. 11, 1941, to Merry Grace (Maxwell) Link and Thomas E. Link of Northeast Kansas City. At the age of 14, he started working at the Benton View Drug Store where he met Koyle June Kern. ...

The Fort Scott Tiger varsity baseball team (4-1 in the SEK, 8-1 overall) swept the Parson Vikings (0-4, 1-6) in a doubleheader Tuesday at the LaRoche Baseball Complex-Dave Regan Stadium. Fort Scott’s third baseman Brody Bowles had five RBIs in the Tiger’s 14-4 rout of the Vikings in game one. The Tigers’ Brady Masters and Parsons’ Nolan Proehl took the hill for their respective teams in the first matchup, in which the Vikings used three pitchers. The Tigers took game two later in the night, 6-1...