Stories from Monday, July 27, 2020

The Bourbon County Public Health Officer recommends that people who purchased food from Nu Grille, 24 N. National Ave., on the dates of July 20-24 to please quarantine in their home and monitor for symptoms of COVID-19, through Aug 7. Symptoms of COVID-19 are:...

Bourbon and Anderson counties each have one new confirmed positive case of COVID-19 Monday morning, according to an update from the Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Departments. Allen County — current positive cases, 6; total hospitalizations, 2(one remaining in hospital); current recovered cases, 8; total positives since testing, 14 (one removed out of state and to remain there); deaths, 0...

Judy Tripp passed from this life July 24, 2020, at her home in rural Fort Scott, Kan. She was born July 8, 1940, the daughter of Lawrence and Cloye (Zentner) Tripp in Algona, Iowa. She attended Beloit schools. She married Don White in 1957, Lincoln, Kan., and had four children. They later divorced. Don preceded her in death in 2015...

Addie Mae Ralph, age 94, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Saturday, July 25, 2020, at the Medicalodges of Fort Scott. She was born Sept. 26, 1925, in Pleasanton, Kan., the daughter of Charles J. Vest and Francena Holmes Vest. She married Henry Delbert Ralph on Oct. 8, 1947, at Salinas, Calif. Addie was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She was a member of the Prescott Baptist Church...

Leo E. “Al” Turner, 93, of Keosauqua, Iowa, and formerly of Kansas, passed away on July 25, 2020 at Keosauqua Health Care Center. He was born on Feb. 25, 1927 in Fort Scott, Kan., to McAger and Hope Garrison Turner. He graduated from Uniontown High School and joined the Army shortly thereafter. ...