Stories from Wednesday, November 14, 2012

William Lyle Marshall passed away peacefully at home on Nov. 12. He was born on Dec. 9, 1925, in Harwood, Mo. He will be missed by his family and many friends. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lula Maye of 60 years; parents, Virgil and Beulah; brothers, Shelby, Dale, and Paul; and sister, Hazel Smith. ...

Alvin Otto Mohlfeld, Nevada, 75, passed away at his residence on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. He was born April 30, 1937, in Stanton County, Neb., to Otto Mohlfeld and Anna Marie Koehlmoos Mohlfeld. He was married July 8, 1961, in Wisner, Neb., to Eileen Wilhelm and she survives of the home...

Our beloved mother, Constance "Connie" Sue Allard, passed away suddenly at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. She was 65 years old. Connie was born on April 14, 1947, to Cliff and Lois Tow in Nevada, Mo., where she lived her entire life. She was a 1965 graduate of Nevada High School. Later she became a valued member of the "Teller Gals" at First National Bank where she worked for the past 27 years...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Middle School seventh-grade basketball teams got back into action with two home contests to start out the week. On Monday, head coach Danny Penn's squads took on Joplin South at the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center and came out of the night with a sweep. The A team won a close contest that night by a final score of 29-27 to improve to 5-1 on the season, while the B team took a 23-18 victory...

Vernon County's annual observation of the Great American Smokeout hopefully leads to more than the suggested 24 hours of abstinence and eventually a total recovery from the debilitating effects of tobacco smoking, sponsors say. In conjunction with the national initiative, Nevada Regional Medical Center will distribute free "survival kits" of information and encouragement from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday, in the main lobby of the hospital, 800 S. Ash St...

By James R. Campbell Nevada Daily Mail Sam Foursha's experience as a U.S. State Department reconstruction consultant in Afghanistan and Iraq has provided him with insights into turmoil in Libya, Syria, Egypt and Iran. The retired U.S. Navy captain says the "Arab Spring" demonstrations that fomented governmental overthrows in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have not spread to Syria and Iran because those dictators are more entrenched...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail He's played music for audiences all over Vernon County, and in all sorts of other places, for that matter, for 61 years. There's still a song in his heart and rhythm in his bones, but Marion Shrimplin says it's time to bring his never-ending concert tour to an end. Sort of...

Workers removed the roof from the Quick Dine building, at the intersection of Osage and Atlantic, on Nov. 10; and on Monday they were salvaging other materials before Dirk Scotten, who has the contract for the demolition, brings in equipment to knock down the rest of the building before hauling it away...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail "We really didn't say anything to them especially other than its the home opener. I mean, we had a lot of people here and we wanted to play well." Cottey Comets head basketball coach Dave Ketterman didn't say much to give his players extra motivation coming into Tuesday night's home opener against Ozark Christian College, but what little he did say worked wonders...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail Nevada High School senior Christian Novak made the verbal commitment she made to play softball at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, official Wednesday, when she signed a letter of intent to play for the Wildcats in the Nevada High School library...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail Nevada High School senior Victoria Culbertson officially solidified her aspirations to continue her softball playing career Wednesday afternoon when she signed a letter of intent to play at Missouri University of Science and Technology, in Rolla, Mo...

I have to say, now that I've gotten back into my groove, so to speak, this school year has been a lot of fun for me. Not only have I finally gotten back into the job I've loved right from the first day I started doing it more than four years ago, but I got to see some pretty cool stuff along the way...