Stories from Friday, September 6, 2013

Angelia Dawn (Richter) Reese, 39, was born Oct. 13, 1973, in Grand Island, Neb., the oldest daughter of Donald Ray and Debra Jean (Sanderlin) Richter. She left this earthly life on Aug. 28, 2013, at her home in Lamar, Mo. Angelia graduated from high school in Archie, Mo., in 1992. She later received her LPN license in 2001. On April 20, 2002, she was united in marriage to Billy Lee Reese and their union three children were born -- one son and two daughters. Her greatest love was her family...

R. Donald Irwin, Bronaugh, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, at Christian Health and Rehabilitation in Nevada, following a long struggle with Congestive Heart Failure. Donald was born Oct. 18, 1924, the sixth and youngest child of Robert L. and Ella F. ...

Wayne Lehman, 78, Nevada, died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, at Christian Health Care, Nevada. Family information and funeral arrangements are under the direction of Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada, and will be announced at a later date. View obituary and send condolences online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...

Robert Junior Adams Jr., 66, Nevada, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, at the Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada. He was born Feb. 4, 1947, to Robert Junior Adams Sr. and Juanita Alkire Adams. He was first united in marriage to Martha Christine Nunez who still survives of Nevada. His wife Susan, to whom he was later married, passed away Sept. 17, 1999. He then married Deborah on Feb. 15, 2003, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

We remember the quotation by Will Rogers, "Well, all I know is what I read in the papers." I have a friend who claims that all we need to know we can learn from the funny papers. Some of you may be too young to realize that the comic page used to be called the funny papers, or the funnies. ...

It has often been said that, "Necessity is the mother of Invention" and this was certainly the case in the Civil War, and for that matter in any war. There was a time in the summer of 1863 in Western Missouri, when after a little more than two years of fighting a vicious guerrilla war, which appeared to have no end, that that it was necessary for the Union Commanding the Department of the Missouri to develop a new strategy for combating the enemy guerrillas or Bushwhackers if one was of the northern persuasion.. ...

Dear editor: The Second Amend-ment Preservation Act -- vetoed by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon for its unconstitutionality, among other things -- may be taken up by legislators in the upcoming veto session; but if a veto override is successful, the ramifications will be far-reaching; and not in a good way...

Nevada Daily Mail Gearing up for the Schell City Fall Festival, the Schell City Board of Aldermen decided the citizen of the year award at its meeting Wednesday. The aldermen also voted 4-0 to tell a resident to take his concerns about buses driving by his house and stirring up dirt to the school board...

Nevada Daily Mail About a dozen prisoners from the Vernon County jail got a chance to get out of the jail and get some fresh air and sunshine during a work detail on Thursday at the Nevada Little League Football field at the Twin Lakes Sports Complex...

Nevada Daily Mail Reading is FUN-damental. That is the message the Bryan Elementary School Title I reading teachers were promoting to the estimated 300 students and their families during the annual Bryan Back to School Bash Thursday evening on the Bryan playground...

Vernon County Deputies, along with undercover agents from the C-Net drug task force, arrested five people from a Nevada residence on Thursday afternoon. Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher said two males and three females were arrested after a search of the residence turned up suspected methamphetamines, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and a set of scales...