Stories from Saturday, November 4, 2017

Arlene Frances Koons, 63, Nevada, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 2, at Medicalodges in Nevada following a lengthy illness. Arlene was born March 18, 1954, in Lakeville, Minn., to George and Shirley (Simonds) Nesbett. On July 20, 2002, she was united in marriage to Bill Koons in Eureka Springs, Ark., and they celebrated 15 years together...

John Laverne Doane, age 64, of Lowell, Mich., passed away unexpectedly at home on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 21. He was born in Lansing, Mich., on June 18, 1953, the son of John Leonard and Irene May (Stull) Doane. John attended Lowell schools and worked most of his life as a custom metal fabricator. ...

Hi neighbors. My daughter shared with me a box of letters she had purchased at an antique shop. She didn’t know anything about the person the letters were all addressed to; but she was intrigued that there was an entire box of them; all dated in the early 1950s...