Stories from Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Arlone Golden Blevins, age 85, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, at her home. She was born Nov. 12, 1933, in Hume, Mo., the daughter of Robert E. Lee and Sylvia Fern Teagarden Lee. She graduated from Hume High School where she played the piano and basketball. ...

John D. Mowrey, age 78, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 11 at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Burial with military honors will follow in the U.S. National Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to either the First United Methodist Church or Fort Scott Paws & Claws and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. ...

LeLola Ruth Martin, age 93, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, at her home at the Presbyterian Village in Fort Scott. She was born Sept. 14, 1925, in Newkirk, Okla., the daughter of Arthur Greenhagen and Ruth Bare Greenhagen. ...

Robert Michael (Bob) Johnson, age 69, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., went home to be with his Lord, Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo. He was born Feb. 13, 1950, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Robert Wayne Johnson and Margie Ladine Clark Johnson. ...

Ronald Eugene Kauffman, age 64, resident of Summerfield, Kan., died Thursday, Sept. 5, at Medicalodges of Fort Scott. There was cremation. Private family burial will take place at a later date in the Appleton City, Mo., Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main St...

Several people turned out Sunday for the Integrity Home Care + Hospice Annual Memorial Service and Dedication of the Memorial Patio at the Riverfront Park. The names of about 60 people are located on the bricks of the patio. Weather has prevented all the names of family members to be placed on many bricks. Those will be added in the future, according to Dennis Uchtman of Integrity Home Care + Hospice...

Charges have been officially filed on a Nevada, Mo., man who allegedly assaulted four people at a residence on East Sixth Street Sept. 3. According to a criminal complaint filed Sept. 5 in Bourbon County District Court, Brandon Michael Swink, 35, faces one count of attempted murder in the second degree, one count of aggravated burglary, three counts of aggravated battery, one count of aggravated assault, one count of criminal threat, one count of battery and two counts of criminal damage to property.. ...

It was a day for celebrating 100 years of a local educational institution. On Monday, several former and current Fort Scott Community College instructors, administrators and students assembled at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the FSCC campus for the first part of a Centennial Celebration to commemorate the first day college students met on the second floor of the Fort Scott High School building...