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Shelia Kay Meritt, 72, Nevada, MO passed away on Friday, September 10, 2021, at Nevada Regional Hospital. Shelia was born April 9, 1949, in Nevada to Orville Eugene and Dorothea Mae (Garwood) Meritt. She married Tom Addington on October 18, 1968, and to this union two children were born...

Dixie Lee Thomas, 78, formerly of Nevada, Mo., died on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021, in Mt. Vernon, Mo., following a courageous battle with breast cancer. Dixie was born on Feb. 8, 1943, in Muscatine, Iowa, to Gail W. and Wanda J. (Smith) Stafford. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, Sept. 10, at Ferry Funeral Home, in Nevada. Interment will follow in Moore Cemetery, in Nevada. The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m., prior to the service...

Randolph James “Randy” Torchia, 62, passed away on Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, at his home in Nevada following a lengthy illness. Randy was born Aug. 14, 1959, in Kansas City, Mo., to Ronald J. and Frances M. (Naccarato) Torchia. He married Maria Stutzman on June 1, 2021, and she survives of the home...

Sheila Darlene Hogan, 78, of Horton, Mo., passed away on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021, at her home following a lengthy illness. Sheila was born Oct. 29, 1942, in Chapel Hill, Ind., to Cecil A. and Della L. (Eads) Rife. Sheila lived and worked in Indiana until she moved to Vernon County in 1963. She worked at Nellie Don for many years and also Metz School in Metz, Mo., as a teacher’s aide...