Stories from Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Helen "Louise" Cox, 82, died Sept. 27, at Freeman Hospital. Born Aug. 24, 1931, in Springfield, Mo., she graduated from high school in Salt Lake City, Utah. She married the late James W. Cox in 1951. A lover of beauty, hot pink, the movies, and an eternal optimist when it came to the Kansas City Chiefs, Louise enjoyed traveling the world, collecting antiques, and speaking in hyperbole. We told her a million times to stop exaggerating.... She was also fluent in sarcasm...

Vanessa Josephine Crooks, 59, of Nevada, Mo., passed away Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, in Nevada, after a lengthy illness. She was born March 9, 1954, in Washington, Mo., to Everett Clark and Josephine (Helm) Conway. On May 3, 1982, she was united in marriage to Ricky Lynn Crooks in Miami, Okla., and he survives of the home...

Clyde D. Hendricks, 86, minister at Iantha Baptist Church, died Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Services will be at 10 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 3, at Konantz Warden Funeral Home in Lamar, with burial at Liberal City Cemetery. A visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, at the funeral home...

Edward R. Lewis, 70, a retired truck driver, died Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Private services will be at the convenience of the family. The Konantz Warden Funeral Home, Lamar, is caring for this family.

Sherman C. Jenkins, 96, retired factory worker, died Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Services will be at 11 a.m., Friday, Oct. 4. There will be a visitation from 10 a.m. until the time of service at 11 a.m., at the Konantz Warden Funeral Home, Lamar.

All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas on Sept. 25, making all qualified farm operators in the designated areas eligible for low interest emergency loans from USDA's Farm Service Agency, provided eligibility requirements are met. ...

The Bronaugh Preschool class along, with pre-kindergarten teacher Julie Forkner and parents, visited the Nevada Regional Medical Center on Sept. 12, for a Teddy Bear Tour. The Teddy Bear program is designed to familiarize children and parents with the emergency department of the hospital. Children coming to the hospital for the first time are naturally frightened, especially in an emergency situation...

The Nevada Public Library has been awarded an LSTA Summer Reading Collection Development Grant for $2,150. The purpose of the grant is to enhance the non-fiction collections in the Children and Young Adult department. The Common Core Curriculum, currently being implemented by the state's educational system, requires an increasingly higher proportion of informational text within the reading framework as students advance through the grades...

A Nevada woman was seriously injured in a single car crash that happened on Interstate-49 at the 136.4 mile marker at about 5:15 Friday afternoon. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper G.J. Jenner, Colleen Johnson, 32, of Nevada received serious injuries when the northbound 2002 GMC Yukon she was driving traveled off the roadway and overturned in the median. ...