Obituaries

Edward Lee Whiteside (05/10/08)
Edward Lee Whiteside, 82, of Fort Scott, passed away Thursday, May 8, 2008, at Medicalodge of Fort Scott. He was born Aug. 3, 1925, in Fort Scott, the son of William Isaac and Mabel Lena (Bolinger) Whiteside. He married Nolene Stump, Sept. 7, 1947, in Larned, Kan. She survives of the home...

Kenneth Nelson "Kenny" Butler Sr. (05/10/08)
Kenneth Nelson "Kenny" Butler Sr., 77, of Nevada, passed away on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, at Nevada Regional Medical Center following a brief illness. He was born April 1, 1931, in Wheatland, Mo., to William Harvey Butler and Vada Faye Weaver Butler. He married Betty Joan Gire, on Oct. 21, 1951, and she survives of the thome...

Ricky Dean White (05/10/08)
On Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Ricky Dean White, age 49, passed away at his home in his sleep. Rick was born May 13, 1958, in Nevada, and reared in El Dorado Springs, where he met and married his wife of 28 years, Vicky Lou Ann McFarland White. Rick lived for his strong believe in God and his family. ...

Nora A. Henson (05/08/08)
Nora A. Henson, 81, Nevada, passed away on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She was born Nov. 17, 1926, in Bates County, Mo., to Ira Newton King and Sarah Lea Malcom King. She married Orvel Bridges in 1961 and celebrated 38 years of marriage before his death in 1998. ...

Mary Louise Brooks (05/08/08)
Mary Louise Brooks, 75, Nevada, passed away on Monday, May 5, 2008, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, Nevada, following a lengthy illness. She was born Oct. 29, 1932, in New Hampton, Iowa, to Ray Edmond Brown and Edna Alice Long Brown. She married Dale Vernon Brooks on July 21, 1967, in Miami, Okla., and he preceded her in death on Feb. 19, 2001...

Bobby M. Cook (05/06/08)
Bobby M. Cook, age 78, Fort Scott, died Friday, May 2, 2008, at the Fort Scott Medicalodge. He was born July 22, 1929, in Enid, Okla., the son of Guy Carlton Cook and Nellie A. Graves Cook. He married Martha Poyner on April 24, 1955, in Fort Scott. ...

Jimmie Lee Simpson (05/03/08)
Jimmie Lee Simpson, 74, of Nevada, passed away on Friday, May 4, 2008, at Moore-Few Care Center, following a lengthy illness. He was born Feb. 21, 1934, in Nevada, to Charlie Floyd Simpson and Minnie Elmira Brown Simpson. He married Valma M. Harper, on Oct. 12, 1956, in El Dorado Springs, and she preceded him in death on Nov. 20, 2006. He devoted six year of his life taking care of Valma until her time of death...

Pat Farr (05/03/08)
Pat Farr, 69, of Fort Scott, passed away Thursday, May 1, 2008, at the Mercy Health Center. She was born Feb. 16, 1939, in Fredonia, Kan., the daughter of Byron and Dorsalena (Shobert) Burnett. She married William Richard Farr Feb. 11, 1972, in Vermillion, S.D. He survives of the home...

Eugene Ray Baldwin (05/03/08)
Eugene Ray Baldwin, 70, Nevada, passed away on Thursday, May 1, 2008, at Kindred Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., following a lengthy illness. He was born March 4, 1938, in Nevada, to Roy William Baldwin and Rachel Allen Baldwin. He married Frances N. Shutters on July 20, 1970, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

Jim Allen Bastow (05/02/08)
Jim Allen Bastow, 60, Nevada, passed away on April 30, 22008, at his home in Nevada. He was born April 16, 1948, in Nevada, to Roderick Franklin Bastow and Ida Fay Robinson Bastow. Jim was a graduated of Nevada High School in 1966, and a lifelong resident of Nevada. ...

Genevieve Fern Armstrong (05/02/08)
Genevieve Fern Armstrong, age 92, a resident of Fort Scott, died Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at Mercy Health Center, in Fort Scott. She was born Oct. 31, 1915, at Fort Scott, the daughter of Richard Byron Headrick and Mary Frances Barnett Headrick. She married James R. ...

Gale Boatman Owings (05/01/08)
Gale Boatman Owings, age 76, of Springfield, Mo., formerly of Nevada and Jenkins, Mo., passed away Monday, April 28, 2008, in his home. He was born March 12, 1932, in Oak Grove, Mo., the son of Charles and Mary Ethel (Blucher) Owings. On May 24, 1964, he was united in marriage to Lavonne Wilson, who preceded him in death on Jan. 9, 2003. He was also preceded in death by his parents and two brothers...

Erma L. Brownsberger (04/29/08)
Erma L. Brownsberger passed away at Nevada Regional Medical Center, on April 27, 2008, at the age of 87. She was born Aug. 14, 1920, to Willard R. West and Goldie A. (Wigger) West, in St. Clair County, Mo. She married Eddie Munsterman, in Montrose, Mo., on Feb. 15, 1938, and to this union six children were born. She later married Ted Brownsberger...

Zelma Lankford Hernod Kimbrell (04/29/08)
Zelma Lankford Hernod Kimbrell, 87, of Kearney, Mo., passed away Friday, April 25, 2008, at the Liberty Hospital, in Liberty, Mo. She was born June 3, 1920, in Rich Hill, to Lewis Wesley Lankford and Winifred Eve Willis Lankford. She married Roy Herndon on Aug. 10, 1914 and he preceded her in death Sept. 23, 1977. She then married Claude Kimbrell, June 15, 1979, and he preceded her in death Nov. 20, 1989...

Dale Burton Chesney (04/26/08)
Dale Burton Chesney, 82, passed away at his home Wednesday evening, April 23, 2008, following a lingering illness. Born in Fort Scott, he was the son of William James and May Lynch Chesney. He attended school in Fort Scott; and after completing one year at Fort Scott Junior College, enlisted as a cadet in the Naval Air Corps in 1943 in which he served two and a half years during World War II. ...

Jewel V. Long (04/25/08)
Jewel V. Long, 90, of rural Nevada, passed away on Thursday, April 24, 2008, at Nevada Regional Medcial Center following a brief illness. She was born Nov. 22, 1917, to O.C. Null and Janie Elliott Null. She married Rex Franklin Fleming on April 1936, in Butler, and he preceded her in death in 1965. She later married John L. Long in March 1973, in Nevada, and he preceded her in death in July 1997...

Barbara Virginia Kearby (04/24/08)
Barbara Virginia Kearby passed away Tuesday, April 22, 2008. Barbara was born on Nov. 27, 1929, in Dixon, Ill. Barbara spent the majority of her life in San Francisco, Calif., and El Dorado Springs, before moving to the Nevada area in the early 1990s...

Judith Vinzant (04/24/08)
Judith Vinzant, of rural Nevada, passed away on Saturday, April 19, 2008, as result of complications from a sudden illness. Judy was born on April 13, 1940, and is survived by her husband of 50 years, Donald Vinzant; and six children Donna Rivard, of Bronaugh, Debora McDannald, of Walker, Diana Hastings, of Nevada, Lora Vinzant, of Denver, Colo., Mark Vinzant, of Nevada, and Jaoquin Vinzant, of Springfield...

Mary A. Houghton, (04/24/08)
Mary A. Houghton, 73, of Mulberry, died at 12:29 a.m., Wednesday, April 16, 2008, at Mt. Carmel Regional Medical Center, in Pittsburg, Kan. Mrs. Houghton was born April 3, 1935, at Mulberry, the daughter of Karl W. and Myrtle A. Walker Hoop. Mary was a homemaker and also worked at Home Health Care. ...