Stories from Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Norman F. "Tuck" Kaup, 80, of Birmingham, Ala., passed away Friday, July 24, 2015. He was born in Stuart, Neb., on Jan. 26, 1935. Mr. Kaup attended Nevada, Mo., schools and graduated from high school in 1953. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps 1953-56, and graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1963, with a degree in electrical engineering...

Bettie Maudie (Wells) Fox, 85, of Schell City, Mo., passed away July 31, 2015, at the Moore-Few Care Center, in Nevada. She was born April 15, 1930, in Walker, Mo., the daughter of Francis Marion and Lillie Edith (Gamble) Wells. She was united in marriage to J. Calvin Fox on Dec. 24, 1947, and together the couple became the parents of four children...

Deborah Ann Willson Wheatley, 53, of Tijeras, N.M., passed away on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, at the University of NM Hospital, in Albuquerque, N.M. She was born on April 16, 1962, in Nevada, Mo., to Gilbert and Eleanor ( McDermott) Willson. She was united in marriage to Marty Wheatley on Nov. 18, 1984, in Nevada, and he survives of the home...

The correspondence of the Civil War contains thousands of letters written by the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines to their families at home and the following letters were written by Assistant Surgeon A. J. Huntoon of the 5th Kansas Vol. cavalry to his wife Elizabeth who was at their former home in New Hampshire for most of the war. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Community Center for the Performing Arts is having auditions for "Crimes of the Heart," with director Kim Bessey, Sunday, Aug. 9, at 4 p.m., and Tuesday, Aug. 11, at 6:30 p.m., at the Fox Playhouse, 110 S. Main, Nevada. No previous theater experience is necessary...

Nevada Daily Mail Around 256 Vernon County second grade children are less likely to drown today than they were before the Osage Prairie YMCA taught basic swimming and water skills to most of the county's second graders in its inaugural "Make a Splash" program last spring...

Special to the Daily Mail The Walker Rural Fire Department was officially born on July 14, 1981, after a group of neighbors worked for several weeks together, feeling there was a huge need for the surrounding community to have a fire department to protect the community. The department was incorporated on that date with six board members forming the corporation...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council is looking at a short agenda when it meets at 7 tonight in the council chambers in the city hall, 120 S. Ash St. Among the items on the agenda is consideration of bids to disinfect the city's two deep wells to prevent clogging of the pre-filter which water goes through before it gets to the reverse osmosis treatment...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada's I-49 Speedway hosted a weekly racing program for race fans Aug. 1-2. A total of 64 cars filled the pit area, displaying some of the best racing action in southwest Missouri. After the track crew worked the racing surface back into shape, those in attendance witnessed lightning-fast action throughout the night, capped off by a spectacular finish to the evening ---- as two new faces found victory lane...