Stories from Friday, June 20, 2025

Shirley Irene (Goddard) Winter, 84, Richards, Mo., passed away on June 18, 2025, at Medicalodge of Fort Scott. She was born on Sept. 17, 1940, near Eve, Mo., to Leslie and Maud (Brouhard) Goddard. She married her childhood sweetheart, Joe Winter, in 1960 and he preceded her in death on July 4, 2023...

Arthur Joseph Pollreis, age 16, a resident of rural Walnut, Kan., died Wednesday, June 18, 2025, following a train accident near Erie, Kan. Rev. Marty DeWitt will conduct a memorial service at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 26, at the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott, Kan. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com...

If vehicles could tell stories, a 1920 Model T owned by Jim Fewins of Fort Scott would have a few to share. Fewins shared the story of the origins of the Ford Model T Touring car, aptly named Daisy after his step-grandmother, Daisy Rice Ashby Boler, who lived from 1876 to 1961 and is buried in Bronson cemetery...

Nine students and three coaches from Fort Scott High School were among those evacuated during an incident at the National Speech and Debate Tournament Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. Thursday afternoon, an unidentified attendee entered the stage during the tournament’s Humorous Interpretation Finals, interrupting the speech, USD 234 Superintendent Destry Brown said in a news release Thursday...