Stories from Friday, June 11, 2021

Nevada golfer Emree Cameron finished in the middle of the pack — tied for it, in fact — at the American Junior Golf Association’s Shreveport Junior Championship tournament this week in Shreveport. Cameron, who qualified for the event after playing last week in the Westrock Coffee Junior Championship (her first AJGA event), shot a combined three-round score of 229 (13-over-par) at the Southern Trace Country Club. It was good enough for a tie with Lucy Smith for 13th place out of a field of 26...

Isn’t having an above-.500 record grand? It certainly was for the Nevada Griffons on the road in Jefferson City Wednesday night, when slugger Alec Telles belted his third home run of the season, a go-ahead grand slam in the seventh inning that carried the team to a 5-2 victory over the Renegades. The win marked Nevada’s third in a row and improved its record to 4-3 — good enough for second place in the South Division of the MINK League...

Niles was nails, Beiter came up big, and the Griffons got their first Gatorade shower of the season. That was the story, in short, Tuesday night at Lyons Stadium, where Nevada’s summer collegiate baseball team evened its early-season record to .500 with a thrilling 4-3 walk-off victory over the first-place Joplin Outlaws...

Julia Belle (Miler) Carpenter was a loving wife, wonderful mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, and aunt. She enjoyed gardening, sewing, quilting, and worked over 20 years at the Nevada State Hospital. She was a member of the Pentecostal Assembly Church...

Billy Gene Rogers, 92, of Nevada, Mo., passed away peacefully at his home June 5, 2021. Bill was born Dec. 29, 1928, to James William and Katie Elizabeth (Beard) Rogers, in Lincoln Parrish, La. Growing up in rural Louisiana, Bill helped his father and older brothers raise crops, make their own sorghum from sugarcane grown on the farm and tended livestock...

David Allen Greenlee, a beloved husband, father and grandfather, died on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, at the age of 87. David is survived by his wife, Peggy Greenlee; his son, Lyndon Greenlee and wife Pam; his grandchildren, Jennifer Greenlee and wife Marlene, Chadd Greenlee and wife Krista, Zachary Greenlee and wife Cristin, and Caty Hernandez and husband Anthony; and his 8 great-grandchildren. ...

LaVon Posey (nee Turnbull), 91 of Nevada, Mo., completed her life’s journey and went to the Lord on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Lavon was born Sept. 16, 1929, in Monroe City, Mo., to Allyn Gardner and Ula Dilola (Jones) Turnbull. LaVon was the loving and dedicated mother of five still-married children, Daphne (Ron) Barks, Tom (Debbie) Posey, Buff (Ray) Salassa, Kelley (Georgia) Posey, and Chris (Teri) Posey; 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and countless nieces and nephews...