Stories from Friday, May 13, 2022

President Jerod Lamb called the May 11 Sheldon School Board of Education meeting to order Wednesday evening. Gene Leininger opened the meeting with a prayer and the board approving the amended agenda and the minutes from the April 13 meeting. The board approved of the bills, balanced budget, and financial report, and Superintendent Irwin reported that several of the teachers and administration have been providing transportation for the students by driving them to attend their extracurricular activities, instead of using the buses in order to save money. ...

Our dad, Robert Wayne Trammell, AKA “Bob”, passed away Saturday, May 7, 2022, surrounded by his family. Dad was born at home southeast of Rich Hill on May 27, 1941, to William E. and Ethel Virginia Kelly Trammell. He was the youngest of three boys, William Eldon and Lowell Edwin being older. Dad attended elementary classes at North Muddy until the one-room schoolhouses were consolidated. He then attended and graduated from Rich Hill in 1959...

Lori Grace Ruddick, age 63, resident of Nevada, Mo., passed away Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at the Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan. She was born Feb. 1, 1959, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Alvin M. and Betty Pauli Ruddick. Lori graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1977 and received her Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kan., in 1982. ...

Dorothy Ann Cameron, 83, Nevada, MO passed away on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada. Dorothy was born July 5, 1938 in Canton, Ill., to William C. and Ineta (Oatman) Roseboom. She was united in marriage to Kenneth E. Cameron on April 12, 1955, in Canton, Ill., and he survives of the home...

In the second to last game of the year, Nevada won against the Pittsburg Purple Dragons, but not in their dominant fashion like we have seen them have. In fact, this was their first win since the tough loss against Harrisonville Monday afternoon when they lost 5-7. ...