Stories from Friday, April 17, 2015

Helen was welcomed into heaven on Wednesday, April 15, at the age of 89. She was born on Aug. 3, 1925, near Sheldon, Mo., to Glen Burley Faith and Stella Fay Clinkenbeard Faith. Sheldon is where she grew up and excelled as a student. Helen worked in her mother's restaurant where she learned excellent cooking and serving skills. ...

Frank Paul Merenghi passed away on Friday, April 10, 2015, at the Missouri Veterans Home in St. James where he was a resident for the past three years. He was the publisher of the Nevada Daily Mail from 1968 to 1972. Frank was born in Newark, N.J., in 1923, to Frank Louis and Denata Ella (Georgio) Merenghi. He graduated from Newark's Central High School before joining the U.S. Army in 1943...

Gladys Voleta "Val" Everly, 73, formerly of Sheldon, Mo., passed from this life Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at her home in Lathrop. She was born Aug. 23, 1941, in Salem, Mo., the daughter of Winfred B. and Volante Devear (Davis) Stagner. On Feb. 12, 1958, she was united in marriage to Dewayne Edwin Everly and he survives of the home...

The letters R&R represent a very recognizable jargon in our culture and language. The initials are used with such regularity, that most of us never speak or write the actual words -- Rest and Relaxation. My own R&R has an additional personal translation -- "Reading and Rain!"...

I am getting along pretty good these days. I have two specialists caring for me, another doctor in between those two and lots of family members and friends who give me all sorts of good advice. I don't resent this at all because many of these people have had similar ailments, or have read an article, or looked it up in the Internet so they are well informed. ...

Nevada Daily Mail "Sic Semper Tyrannis" (Thus be it ever with tyrants) were the words that John Wilkes Booth shouted 150 years ago as he leapt onto the stage of Ford's Theater and into the pages of villainy after firing the shot that would claim the life of President Abraham Lincoln. This fateful act took place on April 14, 1865...

Nevada Daily Mail In April 1865, Union soldiers at Fort Scott could see the end of four long years of a devastating war. Excitement turned to tragedy with news of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton said to the small gathering of people at Lincoln's bedside after his death: "Now he belongs to the ages."...

Nevada Daily Mail Vernon County and the city of Nevada recognized the issue of crime and the rights of its victims Wednesday morning with the signing of a proclamation naming the week of April 19-25, as National Crime Victims' Rights awareness week...

Nevada Daily Mail Vernon County and the city of Nevada recognized the issue of crime and the rights of its victims Wednesday morning with the signing of a proclamation naming the week of April 19-25, as National Crime Victims' Rights awareness week...

Nevada's local youth swim team, the YMCA Osage Prairie Tridents, competed at the Double Your Foolish Poolish Fun Swim Meet, April 11 at the Fair Acres Family YMCA in Carthage. Tridents results Cody Leung (age 9), first-place in: 25 freestyle, 25 backstroke, 25 breaststroke, and 25 fly...

The Cottey Comets softball team notched its first victory of the 2015 season, defeating North Arkansas Community College 11-2, in the second game of a home doubleheader, Thursday afternoon. The Comets (1-20) dropped the first game 11-4. The two teams met March 30 in Nevada, with North Arkansas winning 11-6 and 23-7...

JOPLIN ---- The Nevada Tigers baseball team was defeated by Joplin High School, Tuesday, 3-1. The loss is the fifth straight for Nevada, as they fall to 5-6. "Our offense continued to struggle," Nevada coach Danny Penn said. "We worked a lot in practice on Monday on situational hitting. A big part of that was looking for a pitch early in an at-bat that the player can hit hard...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tigers golf team was victorious at home Thursday, defeating El Dorado Springs and Pleasant Hill. The match at Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course, was the only scheduled home-event on the Tigers 2015 schedule. Nevada tallied a team-score of 155, 16 strokes better than Pleasant Hill, while finishing on top of El Dorado Springs by 103 strokes. The Tigers are now 2-1 in match-play this season...