Stories from Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Daily Mail Sports Editor After four years in the Lady Tigers volleyball program, Nevada High School senior Mindy Hendren has signed a college letter-of-intent to play for Highland Community College (Kan). "I'm really excited to continue my volleyball career and nervous for what's to come," Hendren said, shortly after she signed Thursday inside the NHS Media Center. "I never thought I would be playing at the college level."...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Rotary Club is awarding three $1,000 scholarships to Nevada High School students graduating in the spring of 2016. They will also be awarding a 1,000 scholarship to a Vernon County student graduating in the Spring of 2016 from one of the various county schools...

Candace (Kandi) Elaine Griffith, 68, Nevada, Mo., passed on to her Lord on March 3, 2016, at 11:30 a.m., doing what she loved for the Lord in New Amsterdam, Guyuna, South America. Death was sudden and peaceful. Candace was born March 1, 1948, in Minot, N.D., to Clarence and Josephine (Keating) Rosenau. She was united in marriage to Orvel Griffith on Oct. 8, 1988, at Seaside Chapel, in Gualala, Calif., and he survives of the home in Nevada...

Nevada Daily Mail A Nevada tradition returns on March 18 and 19 as the 30th Annual Nevada Home & Leisure Show returns for another year. Produced by KNEM/KNMO Radio, the Nevada Home & Leisure Show annually features products and services from businesses in southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas...

Bobby Lee Moon, 69, of Nevada, Mo., passed away Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, after a long illness. Bobby was born at home on Nov. 11, 1946, the son of Ray L. and Hattie Cross Moon, Stockton, Mo. He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Lester, Walter, and Howard Moon; four sisters, Ruby Renner, Mary Ballard, Frances Keever, and Helen Owens. He is survived by one brother, Ivan Moon, Fulton, Mo.; and one sister, Edith Cox, of Nevada, Mo...

Gordon Dunkin Foster, 104, Nevada, Mo., died Friday, March 11, 2016, at Moore-Few Care Center, in Nevada. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m., Monday, March 21, at the United Methodist Church, in Nevada. The family will receive friends from 3 to 5 p.m., Sunday, at the funeral home. Memorial contributions are suggested to the United Methodist Church in care of Ferry Funeral Home...

Editor's Note: This is the final installment of Clarence Whistler's account of his experiences during World War II. By Nemoa Foreman Special to the Daily Mail As we were going through a small town and I was thinking about how glad I was that we were far enough from the front lines that the American artillery couldn't reach us, a shell landed right in the road. ...

Nevada Daily Mail "As Americans, we can't say we're better than the people of other countries because nearly all of us, when you go back, were originally from other countries." Those words, part of a speech by John Ashcroft, former U.S. attorney general, were heard by about 75 people Friday. ...