Stories from Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Wayne Calliard "Tex" Ritter Jr., age 67, of Pleasanton, Kan., died Friday, Sept. 4, 2009, at Neosho Memorial Medical Center, in Chanute, Kan. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m., on Monday, Sept. 7, at the Liberty Worship Center, in Pleasanton. Burial will be in the Prescott Cemetery. ...

James Edward Monroe Sr., 77, Nevada, passed away suddenly at his home Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009. He was born Feb. 27, 1932, in Michigan City, Ind., to George R. Monroe and Marcella Surber Monroe. He was married Jan. 31, 2002, in Miami, Okla., to LaVerne Archer and she survives of the home...

Mrs. Hazel Marie Gordon, widow of Paul H. Gordon, passed away in Nevada on Sept. 5, 2009, at the age of 89. A service was held at Ferry Funeral Home at 10:30 a.m., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, followed by burial at Newton Burial Park. There was a visitation held at Ferry Funeral Home from 7 to 8 p.m., on Monday, Sept. 7...

Marion Howard McKee, 79, Stockton, Mo., formerly of Nevada, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009, at Citizens Memorial Healthcare in Bolivar, Mo., following a lengthy illness. He was born Sept. 29, 1929, in Nevada, to Marion Newton McKee and Cela Lila Fisher McKee. He married Germaine F. Vogel on Feb. 4, 1955, in Chicago, Ill., and she survives of the home...

Christabel Lou "Chris" Maring, 80, Nevada, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, Nevada, following a brief illness. She was born Aug. 29, 1929, in Nevada, to Oscar Dean Huston and Bertie Myers Huston. She married Vincent Maring on April 9, 1948, in Nevada. He preceded her in death on Jan. 30, 2009...

It was a tough weekend for the Cottey College Comets as they faced three opponents and ended up losing to all three. On Saturday, Cottey hosted both Labette County Community College and Fort Scott Community College in a triangular match. In the opening round, the Comets fell to Labette 14-25, 25-16, 18-25, 20-25, and in the final match of the day, the Fort Scott Greyhounds swept the Comets 25-14, 25-21, 25-19...

The Liberal Bulldogs football team earned their first victory of the season as they defeated the Lockwood Tigers at home Friday by a final score of 28-19. Lockwood got on the board first in the contest as Patrick Whittington took the ball 44 yards on the ground for the first touchdown of the game. An extra point by Chance Mayden gave the Tigers a 7-0 lead with 1:12 to go in the first quarter...

When Doyle Johns of Nevada, Mo., enlisted in the U.S. Navy in his home town in Oklahoma on Sept. 23, 1942, he thought he would get to go overseas, be on big boats, and especially go to California. "My seafaring journey was aboard a hundred foot boat for ONE day. ...

Protesters from the Christian Coalition recently gathered in front of the Family Video store in Nevada to voice their displeasure with the sale or rental of pornographic material. "Our idea is to show to the people of Nevada that they're selling pornography here (at Family Video) because I don't think that everyone knows that," Coalition member Isaac Yoder said. ...

A total of 381 of Nevada's 4,457 registered voters cast their ballots in Tuesday's city council primary election. The special election was held to narrow the six candidates who filed for two open seats to four for the Nov. 8 general election, when two of the four will be elected to fulfill the unexpired terms of Joyce Wilson and Tim Wells, both of whom resigned for unrelated reasons earlier this year. ...

You answer the phone and hear an officious voice tell you there's a warrant out for your arrest. Once the person on the other end of the phone is sure you have been properly prepared comes the pitch; they can help you avoid an arrest if you pay a fine, and provide them with some information such give them your social security number. That's when the nightmare begins -- you've just had your identity stolen...

Recently, as school was getting started, the Nevada R-5 Board of Education established a policy for random drug testing for students in high school and middle school. Those participating in extracurricular and co-curricular activities had to complete a form stating that they agree to participate in the random testing program. The school board did the right thing in establishing this program...