Stories from Saturday, December 3, 2016

Donna Louise (Lechman) Fisher, 84, Nevada, passed away on Friday, Dec. 2, at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin. Donna was born March 24, 1932, in Orlando, Okla., to Thomas L. and Dora (Finnell) Jeans. She was united in marriage to Jack Lechman in 1953 and he preceded her in death in 1975...

David Allen Woodall, age 79, resident of Redfield, Kan., died Thursday, Dec. 1, at the Kansas City Hospice House in Kansas City, Mo. He was born on Oct. 26, 1937, in Mission, Texas, the son of Clarence and Cecelia Grove Woodall. He proudly served our country in the U.S. Navy, retiring in 1977 after 22 years of service. He then worked for a fiberbo...

Melba Pauline Crabtree, 82, Nevada, passed from this life on Thursday, Dec. 1, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada. Melba was born Dec. 23, 1933, in Foster, Mo., to Claude G. and Lorene M. (Hooper) Hines. In 1952 she was united in marriage to Robert Kinney and to this union six children were born. She later married Hal Crabtree on February 29, 1984, and he preceded her in death in 2012...

Aurora Lillian Miller was born on Oct. 28, at 10:39 at Nevada Regional Medical Center, the daughter of Samantha Driver and Quinton Miller. She weighed 8 pounds 1 ounce. Paternal grandparents are Aaron Moore, Sheldon, and Tonia Miller, Klamath Falls, Ore...

gfranklin.nevadadailymail@gmail.com Nevada Daily Mail's publisher, Lorie Harter, will join other prominent locals in jail next Tuesday to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "I've turned myself in, so I'll be doing a little time behind bars and I need your help to break free!" reads Harter's page on the Muscular Dystrophy Association website. ...

jbrann.ndm@gmail.com Tuesday's monthly meeting of Nevada Regional Medical Center's board of directors began with an overview of the annual audit on the financial activities for the past fiscal year of the hospital and a separate one on the long-term care unit...

Nevada Daily Mail Editor's note: This is the first in a series of stories about the programs at Nevada Regional Technical Center. Agriculture students are learning by doing on the Nevada Regional Technical Center life sciences lab. This fall students are working with beef cattle and row crops to dive deep into agriculture concepts traditionally taught in the classroom. ...

Last Sunday was a day that duck hunters looked forward to, with cool and gusty south winds and an overcast sky. The ducks that had been holding up north started moving into Missouri as the cold and damp weather hit northern states pushing ducks south...

After a little bit of a slow start to the season, the Nevada Lady Tigers seventh-grade basketball team quickly thawed out, finishing the regular-season 9-3 overall. Lady Tigers head coach Danny Penn, who has accumulated 32 victories over the past three seasons coaching junior high girl basketball, said this team has been a joy to coach...

A impressive season debut by Nevada Tigers junior forward Clay Gayman, led top-seeded NHS to a 57-55 victory over fifth-seeded Carthage High School Friday night at the 70th annual Carthage Invitational. After missing the first two games with an ankle injury, Gayman finished the semifinal contest with 30 points, 16 rebounds, and three blocks, as the Tigers improve to 3-0 overall (2-0 West Central Conference)...

The Nevada Lady Tigers notched its first victory of the season Friday night, prevailing 39-34 over Liberal in the consolation semifinals of the Carl Junction Lady Bulldog Classic. The victory improves the Lady Tigers to 1-2 overall. Lady Tigers junior guard Brooke Sargent knocked down the go-ahead basket with 1:30 remaining in regulation. With under a minute to play, a pair of Sargent free throw iced the contest...

An exciting and highly competitive first half of basketball ended in disappointment for the Cottey Comets as they fell to the Fort Scott Community College Lady Greyhounds 77-60 Friday night at Hinkhouse Center. The loss drops Cottey to 2-5 overall while FSCC improves to 10-0...