Stories from Wednesday, January 22, 2025

David Wayne “Tiny” Watkins, age 77, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at the Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo. He was born Feb. 25, 1947, in Fort Scott, the son of William Wayne Watkins and Edna Mae “Cricket” Kells Watkins. ...

George Edward Montgomery, Jr., 81, of Fort Scott, went to meet the Lord on Wednesday evening, Dec. 11, 2024, in Kansas City at KU Medical Center. The Funeral Mass was celebrated by Father Yancey Burgess at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, at the Mary Queen of Angels Catholic Church under the direction of the Konantz Cheney Funeral Home. ...