Stories from Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Pamela Jean Bloomfield, age 63, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Tuesday, March 2, 2021, at Medicalodges of Fort Scott. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 11, in the Large Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 9 until 9:45 a.m. ...

Albert R. Cummings, Sr., age 80, of St. Louis, Mo., passed away Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 at his home following a short illness resulting from congestive heart failure. Albert was born on Oct. 27, 1940 in Fort Scott, Kan., to Cleo Mae (Jenkins) Cummings and Booker T. ...

Dina Wilson, age 74, a resident of Ft. Scott, Kan., passed away Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at her home following a cancer illness. She was born Feb. 22, 1947, in Noel, Mo., the daughter of Everett Hill and LaDora Watson Hill. She married Robert Wilson on Feb. ...

Rhonda Elaine Oliver, 62, of Fort Scott, passed away early Tuesday morning, March 9, 2021, at KU Medical Center. Arrangements will be announced by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Along with a move of the county’s dispatch center to the Bourbon County Courthouse, officials representing the county and city of Fort Scott are also discussing a move of city offices to the courthouse. Following the Bourbon County Commission meeting Tuesday, County Commission Chairman Lynne Oharah, County Counselor Justin Meeks and Susan Bancroft, the city’s director of finance and business manager for the county, led City Manager Jeremy Frazier on a guided tour of the courthouse...

Fort Scott City Commissioners on March 2 unanimously voted to approve moving the 911 center, currently at 1604 S. National Ave., to space in the Bourbon County Courthouse formerly used as the Bourbon County Jail located at 207 S. Judson. Traci Reed, communications manager, spoke to the commissioners about the proposed move. ...