Stories from Thursday, March 15, 2012

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Jerome "Red" Bellinghausen, 75, of Harwood, Mo., died on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at his home. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m., Friday, March 16, at the Schell City Baptist Church in Schell City. Visitation will be 6-7 p.m., Thursday, March 15, at the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home, Schell City. Burial will be in Lefler Cemetery, Harwood, Mo. Friends may call after 1 p.m., Thursday, at the funeral home...

The family of Leroy Earll, who died Feb. 20, 2012, will hold a memorial service/celebration of life, at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 18, at the Fairview Community Building, in Fairview, Mo. Arrangements are under the direction of Clark Funeral Home, Neosho, Mo...

Marilyn Yvonne Forkner Greer passed away on March 14, 2012, at her home in Milo, Mo. Marilyn was born Aug. 18, 1935, to Marvin and Gladys Helen Forkner of rural Horton, Mo. Marilyn attended Metz Schools and graduated from Metz High School in 1953. After graduating high school, Marilyn attended Pittsburg Teacher's College, Pittsburg, Kan., for two years and then received her bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri in 1958. ...

March 8 There was a report of a petty theft in the 100 block of West Allison Street. Item stolen was a Sony portable DVD player. There was a report of tampering with property of another in the 600 block of South Washington Street. Item stolen was 15-gallons of gasoline from a vehicle...

Jamie Eslinger, who is a Cottey alumna, a motivational speaker, and a health coach, is the next guest in the Distinguished Speaker Series at Cottey College. Her presentation is titled "Women on Fire," and she will speak at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 21, in the Missouri Recital Hall...

For years the city has divided the town into four districts for the purpose of reading water meters and preparing customers' bills. This process kept the city's meter readers and the city staff who prepared the water bills busy most of each month. Bills were prepared and mailed each week, with each week's batch of bills having a different due date. The process also left people who moved across town confused when suddenly their water bill arrived on a different date...

Editor's note: Second-year students have gone on an educational trip to Barcelona, Spain. Cottey College Public Information Officer Steve Reed is sharing the experience with the Nevada Daily Mail's readers in daily accounts, in the form of letters back home. Here's what happened on Day 5:...

SHELDON -- Have you ever fantasized about walking around a room and meeting Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, the Red Baron, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill and Yoko Ono? Apply the imagination and an open mind and you could have done so last Friday at Sheldon High School, where the school's annual Living History Day was in full flower in afternoon and nighttime sessions...