Former mayor Bill Edmonds dies at age 61

Friday, May 15, 2009

After a long illness, former Nevada Mayor Bill Edmonds died Wednesday, at St. John's Regional Medical Center, Joplin. A Butler native, Edmonds graduated from Butler High School in 1966. He attended Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, graduating in 1970. Edmonds worked for 34 years for the Department of Mental Health, retiring as superintendent from the Nevada Habilitation Center in 2004. Edmonds served two terms as mayor of Nevada.

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