Stories from Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Joanna Woody, age 96, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Friday, May 24, 2024, at Guest Home Estates Fort Scott. Services for Joanna Woody will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

David Troutman, age 75, resident of Fort Scott, KS died Friday, May 24, 2024, at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo. Services for David Troutman will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

Stella Margaruette Hunter Dale, age 90, Independence, Mo., formerly of La Cygne, Kan., passed away Saturday, May 25, 2024.   Funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, 2024, at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, La Cygne Chapel.  Burial will be in the Cadmus Cemetery.  Visitation will be held from 1 pm to service time at the La Cygne Chapel...

Wilma Virginia Cook, age 89, Stover, Mo., formerly of Pleasanton, Kan., passed away Friday, May 24, 2024. She was born on March 24, 1935 in Lockport, La., the daughter of Edgar and Dorena Matherne Guidry. She owned her own trucking company before retirement. ...

David Dee Troutman, age 79, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Friday, May 24, 2024, at the Research Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. He was born May 3, 1945, the son of Vernon Troutman and Verna Clark Troutman. Dave grew up in Niotaze, Kan., and graduated from the Caney High School. ...

Joanna Woody, age 96, a former resident of rural Bronaugh, Mo., and more recently of the Presbyterian Village in Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Friday, May 24, 2024, in Fort Scott. She was born Feb. 29, 1928, in Vernon County, Mo., near what was Swartz, Mo., the daughter of Willard Earl Foster and Pearlie Wilma Hawkins Foster. ...

Stella Margaruette Hunter Dale, age 90, Independence, Mo., formerly of La Cygne, Kan., passed away Saturday, May 25, 2024. 
Funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, 2024, at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, La Cygne Chapel. Burial will be in the Cadmus Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1 pm to service time at the La Cygne Chapel...

Bourbon County Commissioners received a rundown of the county’s finances for the past year during an audit report May 20. Emily Franks with Jarred, Gilmore, Phillips PA said the firm prepared the audit that shows the county’s receipts, expenditures and unencumbered cash balances as of Dec. 31. Franks said the county did not incur any state or federal violations, but there were a couple of “material weaknesses” identified as areas of improvement...

Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of Commerce David Toland announced May 20 $500,000 has been awarded in the latest round of Attraction Development Grant funding. The Gordon Parks Museum Foundation was awarded a $9,229 grant for the Wayman Chapel AME Church Commemorative Park Project. The church, which once stood at 301 S. Lowman St., was torn down in 2001, and a commemorative park is planned for the site, Gordon Parks Museum Executive Director Kirk Sharp said...