Could you change a life by giving up 4 weeks? - Jan. 14, 2015
What if you could change an orphan’s whole life for the better by simply opening your home and sharing your life with them for four weeks? Wade and Christine Teagarden of La Cygne along with their children Josie, Wylie and Ethan answered that call by working with an organization called Project...[More]
Wanda Faye (Boone) Hood - 03-03-1929 to 01-10-2015 - Jan. 14, 2015
Wanda Faye (Boone) Hood, Minneapolis, Kan., was born to Irvin and Esther (Crogan) Boone March 3, 1929, in La Cygne, Kan., and she passed away Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, at the Ottawa County Health Center, Minneapolis.Wanda married Mark Hood Jan. 1, 1947 in Herington, Kan. To this union three children were...[More]
Patricia J. Reppert - 01-21-1929 to 01-10-2015 - Jan. 14, 2015
Patricia J. Reppert, 85, Mound City, Kan., passed away Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. She was born Jan. 21, 1929, in Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of Harry O. and Alberta C. Camp Kliner. She married Fred Lee Reppert May 3, 1949. He preceded her in death Feb. 5, 2005. Pat worked for Western Electric as a telephone...[More]
Dorothy Fern Hodgson Hosley Koontz - Jan. 14, 2015
Dorothy Fern Hodgson Hosley Koontz passed away Dec. 12, 2014, in Littleton, Colo. She was 100 years old. Always known as “Fern,” she was the youngest of seven children and the only girl. All of her brothers preceded her in death. Fern was born on a farm in Linn County, Kan., to Stephen and...[More]
Rosetta Mae Person - 11-09-1924 to 01-04-2015 - Jan. 14, 2015
Rosetta Mae Kendall was born in Prescott, Kan. Rosetta was the youngest of three children born to Theron William Kendall and Pearl Victoria Wallace Kendall. Growing up, Rosetta was quite the tomboy, preferring to play outside with her older brother and his friends instead of being in the house and learning...[More]
Betty Clark Avery - Jan. 14, 2015
Betty Clark Avery, of Yakima, Wash., passed away at age 81, on Jan. 3, 2015, at the Arbor House in Yakima. Betty was born to Oliver and Mary Clark in Anthony, Kan., and was raised on a farm. She attended the one room school at Linnville before graduating from Mound City High School. After graduation,...[More]
Ronald Jean Troutman - 08-15-1939 to 01-04-2015 - Jan. 14, 2015
Ronald Jean Troutman, 75, of Fontana, Kan., died Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, at the Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kan.Ron was born Aug. 15, 1939, in Denver, Colo., the youngest of three children to Lester Lee and Elisabeth M. (Melody) Troutman. He lived in California from 1940-1949. He moved to Parker,...[More]
Donna Marie Watts - 12-09-1936 to 01-09-2015 - Jan. 14, 2015
Donna Marie Watts, 78, Pleasanton, Kan. passed away Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 at the Olathe Medical Center. She was born Dec. 9, 1936 at Wheaton, Mo., the daughter of Roy and Emma May Harrison. She was united in marriage in 1958 in the State of Arkansas to Jerry Watts. Donna worked for the Pleasanton Unified...[More]
Jayhawk basketball wins big over Uniontown - Jan. 14, 2015
The Jayhawk-Linn boys’ and girls’ basketball teams hosted Uniontown on Jan. 6. Both teams won big as the girls won 57-33 and the boys won 72-40.In the girls’ game it was close in the first quarter as the Hawks only led by four, 15-11. The Hawks then had a huge second quarter that put...[More]
Buffalos top Panthers in Pioneer-Frontier League dual - Jan. 14, 2015
The Prairie View wrestling team hosted a double dual on Jan. 9, as it was the Pioneer League versus the Frontier League. The Pioneer League got the better of its larger Frontier League foes as the Buffalos defeated Paola 39-29 and Osawatomie defeated Spring Hill 49-24.The dual started with the 170-weight...[More]
