Stories from Tuesday, October 17, 2006

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail At least three Vernon County homes were burglarized during the day over the weekend and Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman says it's not just Vernon County that is being victimized. "When this first started a few months ago, I called over to Bourbon County (Kan.) and they said they didn't have a problem," Peckman said. "Then, a few days later, they called me back and said it had started over there, also."...

Nevada Daily Mail Soroptimist International of Nevada in partnership with the Nevada/Vernon County Area Chamber of Commerce will host "Insight & Issues 2006: A Voter Forum" Thursday, Oct. 19, at 5:30 p.m., at The Fox Playhouse, 100 S. Main, in Nevada. The event is free and open to the public...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council will have a full agenda when they meet at 7 o'clock tonight in the city council chambers. Among the new items on their tentative agenda tonight will be a report from Carl Brown on the water-sewer rate survey the city hired him to perform...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail A Moundville man was killed and two other Vernon Countians were injured in three separate incidents over the weekend. All three crashes were one-vehicle incidents. Duane G. Willers, 54, Moundville, was killed Saturday, as about 7 p.m., on Highway 43, one mile north of Moundville, when the south-bound 2003 F-250 Ford truck he was driving struck a deer, ran off the road and overturned, ejecting Willers, according to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol...

Meeting's purpose is to glean input on Missouri Gas Energy rate case. Nevada Daily Mail JEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri Public Service Commission will hold a local public hearing in Nevada on Oct. 25, to receive customer comment on a natural gas rate case filed by Missouri Gas Energy. Customers may also bring any service related problems to the Commission's attention during the local public hearing...

By Colette Lefebvre-Davis Nevada Daily Mail "What you are, is what you do, Character counts yes, inside of you Character counts yes, it'll make you whole Character counts, it will always see you through." Pat McManus Ben Lehl and Craig Olsen played to a roaring crowd of 400. The exhilaration, the laughing and the squeals of excitement prompted a lively mood at the concert...

Members of the Vernon County Garden Club gathered on the southeast corner of the courthouse lawn to plant bulbs on Monday. The wet drizzly weather didn't discourage this bunch of hardy gardeners from their appointed task. Above, Connie Oyer digs a hole for one of her Snow Crocus bulbs the old fashioned way while Kathryn Young shows her some new technology at work. ...

Nathaniel Willard Brundidge, 97, Nevada, Mo., passed away Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, in Nevada. He was born July 2, 1909, in Missouri Valley, Iowa, to George Washington Brundidge and Mabel Lavina Galland Brundidge. Nathaniel served in the U.S. ...

Vada Schmidt Decker, 81, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006, at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo., as the result of a massive stroke. She was born May 27, 1925, in Fairview, Okla., to Sam C. Schmidt and Leah Koehn Schmidt. She married Harvey Decker on March 2, 1952, by Minister Norman Eicher, Hillsboro, Kan. Harvey survives of the home...

Duane Gordon Willers, 54, Moundville, Mo., passed away suddenly as the result of an automobile accident on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006. He was born Sept. 17, 1952, in Fort Scott, Kan., to Don Lee Willers and Bonnie Jeanne Hornecker Willers. He married Peggy A. Fritts on Aug. 19, 1973, in Nevada, Mo., and she survives of the home...

Josephine Jarvis, 79, Nevada, Mo., died Oct. 12, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, Nevada. Funeral services were held Monday, Oct. 16, at 11 a.m., at the Heuser Funeral Home, Rich Hill, Mo. The family received friends Monday, 9-11 a.m., at the funeral home. Burial was in the Greenlawn Cemetery, Rich Hill...

Loren Curtin Dockery, 78, Nevada, Mo., died Oct. 13, 2006, after a short illness. He was born April 20, 1928, to Zella Beccher Dockery and Edna May Harmon Dockery. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Brent Bland officiating. Interment was in St. James Cemetery near Milford, Mo., under the direction of Hackleman and Sons Funeral Home, El Dorado Springs, Mo...

Anna Mae (Redburn) Benskin, 70, El Dorado Springs, Mo., died Oct. 10, 2006. She was born Feb. 12, 1936, Olympia, Mo. She was the daughter of Edward and Clara Redburn. Funeral services were held Saturday, Oct. 14, at the Park Street Christian Church, El Dorado Springs, with Steve Bond and Frank Dunbar officiating. Interment was in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery under the direction of Hackleman and Sons Funeral Home...

100 years ago Pardon for Burton TOPEKA, Kan. -- It was reported last night that friends of J.R. Burton, ex-United States senator, will try to have him pardoned. It is said that this is the reason he has been advised not to discuss the loss of his case in the supreme court. The mandate from the supreme court is not expected to reach Mr. Barton before the end of the month, so that there will be plenty of time in which to present the request for pardon to the president...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Lady Tiger volleyball team dropped Butler in two games on the road Monday, 25-18, 25-22. Brittany Crockett had seven kills and five blocks, Ashleigh Bryson had eight kills and one block and Emma Dreyer had nine assists to lead the team...

Nevada Daily Mail Former Nevada High School girls tennis coach Lex Blue was inducted into the NHS Athletics Hall of Fame prior to Friday's football game between the Tigers and the McDonald County Mustangs at Logan Field. Blue was the fourth individual inducted as part of the 2006 Hall class. He is also the first inductee from the storied NHS girls tennis program, which won a southwest conference record 40 straight conference matches from 1994 to 2003. Blue was the coach when the streak began...

Nevada Daily Mail The Cottey Comets lost at Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College in volleyball action Friday. Coffeyville won 30-21, 30-26, 30-26. The Lady Red Ravens used their height advantage (six players of at least 5-10, compared to two for Cottey) to give the Comets fits on the front line...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada boys cross country team finished second at the Southwest Conference meet held as part of a larger meet at Neosho on Oct. 12. The boys had 69 points, only finishing behind Carthage, which had 20 points to win easily. The boys finished fourth in the overall meet, which Carthage also won...