Stories from Friday, January 8, 2021

The Bronaugh City council met on Wednesday, Jan. 6, for their regular monthly meeting. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Sherry Brown. The Bronaugh City Council met in regular session Wednesday evening with a light and varied agenda. "The Thompson family came to the meeting to see what their options were for access to some land that they will be purchasing which a portion is in the city limits," Mayor Sherry Brown said afterward. ...

Erica (Tuomi) Grothaus of Mahtomedi, Minn., passed away suddenly on Jan. 3, 2021. Just 49, Erica was born Feb. 18, 1971, in Minneapolis, Minn., to Norman and Gayle (Kirkpatrick) Tuomi. Erica spent her early childhood in Cottage Grove, Minn., where she became an older sister and lifelong friend to her sibling Nicole...

Richard Hermann “R.H.” Brownsberger, 86, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, at his home in Nevada. R.H. was born July 26, 1934, in Blackwell, Okla., to Maurice and Allene (Smith) Brownsberger. He married Evelyn M. Heiman in 1953 and she preceded him in death on April 23, 1978. On Dec. 31, 1981, he married Marilyn (Hensley) Coonrod and she survives of the home...

Bertha May Wright, 80, Milo, Mo., passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, in Nevada. Bertha was born Feb. 26, 1940, in Sheldon, Mo., to James Ira and Hellene Francis (Leigh) Holland. She married Chester Leon Wright on May 25, 1957, in Nevada, and he survives of the home...

David Owen Marshall, 73, Nevada, Mo., died on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Ferry Funeral Home.