Peggy Ruth Corp 08-26-1950 to 02-10-2022 - Feb. 14, 2022
Linn County News Published Feb. 16, 2022 Peggy Ruth Corp, 71, of Hume, Mo., passed away peacefully on Feb. 10, 2022, at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo. Peggy Ruth (McCullough) Corp was born Aug. 26, 1950, in Durant, Okla. She graduated in 1968 from Lone Jack High...[More]
Russell Lee Purdy 07-13-1941 to 02-09-2022 - Feb. 14, 2022
Linn County News Published Feb. 16, 2022 Russell Lee Purdy, age 80, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. He was born on July 13, 1941, in Trading Post, Kan., the son of Charles and Daisy Goldie Elizabeth Rittinghouse Purdy. He graduated from Pleasanton High School...[More]
Sonya R. Rittinghouse 04-17-1962 to 02-10-2022 - Feb. 14, 2022
Linn County News Published Feb. 16, 2022 Sonya R. Rittinghouse, age 59, Columbia, Mo., formerly of Pleasanton, Kan., passed away Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Sonya was born April 17, 1962, in Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of Ray and Alice Manewal Pritchard. She was an amazing...[More]
Anadel Edmiston Gable 11-05-1931 to 02-07-2022 - Feb. 14, 2022
Linn County News Published Feb. 16, 2022 It is with much sorrow that the family of Anadel Gable shares the news of her passing. Anadel Edmiston Gable, a longtime resident of Pleasanton, Kan., passed away peacefully on Feb. 7, 2022, at Highland Meadows Health and Rehab Center in...[More]
Mark Allen Feldman 12-13-1963 to 02-08-2022 - Feb. 11, 2022
Linn County News Published Feb. 16, 2022 Mark Allen Feldman, age 58, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. Mark was born Dec. 13, 1963, to Joyce (Tinsley) Feldman and Franklin Jr. Feldman at Paola, Kan. Mark was the youngest of three children. He grew up in rural La...[More]
Mary Frances Claytor 02-27-1944 to 02-10-2022 - Feb. 11, 2022
Linn County News Published Feb. 16, 2022 Mary Frances Claytor, age 77, La Cygne, Kan., passed away Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. She was born on Feb. 27, 1944, in Panama City, Fla., the daughter of Owens and Florence Fortune Walker. She grew up and attended school in LaBelle, Fla. She...[More]
Murder hearing cancelled due to weather - Feb. 9, 2022
Presiding Circuit Judge M. Brandon Baker of Missouri’s Bates County Circuit Court ordered court closed on Wednesday, Feb. 2, due to a predicted winter storm. That order forced a continuance for all cases set for that day, including Case 22BS-CR-00001 filed against Christopher E. Cutshaw, age 26,...[More]
La Cygne suggests alternate routes during CCLIP - Feb. 9, 2022
KDOT project to begin next month will widen east K-152 La Cygne city leadership is suggesting that motorists find alternate routes from the east when a highway widening project begins next month. At the regular council meeting last Wednesday, Feb. 2, Mayor Debra Wilson strongly recommended...[More]
Conservation through the arts - Feb. 9, 2022
Junior Duck Stamp contest FORT SCOTT – Saturday, Feb. 19, Fort Scott National Historic Site and Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge are presenting the 29th annual national Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest. Art programs will run from 10 a.m.-noon and 2-3:30 p.m., and all students in kindergarten...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Feb. 9, 2022
Spotify fear factor Many of you may remember the show “Fear Factor” hosted by the now infamous Joe Rogan. Words such as “poop shoot” were made common when unsuspecting contestants had to eat pig intestines, habanera peppers or lie still while giant spiders crawled on their faces...[More]