Graveside services for Virginia Kehl Byerley, 92, of Parker, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Prairie Home Cemetery, rural La Cygne. Mrs. Byerley died Wednesday in North Point Skilled Nursing Center in Paola. Memorials are to the Parker Library or Parker Heritage Park in care of Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home in Osawatomie.
Michael Edward Rice, son of Clarence Edward and Gabrielle N. Earnest Rice of Greeley, was stillborn Thursday in Ransom Memorial Hospital. Survivors, in addition to his parents, include Jim and Vicky Brownback of Parker. The family will meet with friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Saturday in Dengel and Son Mortuary in Ottawa.
Graveside memorial services for Betty M. Plain of Kansas City, Kan., and her late husband, Donald A. Plain, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Osawatomie Cemetery. Mrs. Plain is the former Betty Ebeck Johnson, who lived in Osawatomie for some time. Her daughter, the late Patricia Johnson Nelson, was a 1958 graduate of Osawatomie [...]
Although they spent hours cooped up on a bus to get to the East Coast, where they lived among well over 40,000 other individuals and had to camp outside in the heat of Virginia, three Osawatomie Boy Scouts recently returned from what they realize was the trip of a lifetime. Brandon Guilfoyle had patches he [...]
Joe VanVlack, a senior at Osawatomie High School, and four other Miami County students attended Kansas Association for Youth Leadership Camp July 26-30 near Junction City. Other Miami County attendees were Mitchell Oberg, Sydney Prothe and Balie Stamps, eighth graders from Paola Middle School, and Mallen Trull, a junior at Paola High School. Middle and [...]
100 Years Ago Subscription papers have been left in every place of business in this city, so that any one desiring to do so, may help contribute to the expense of dedicating John Brown Park. Some of them are being signed up liberally, and some not. If the town had had a chance to get [...]
Osawatomie USD 367 enrollment was down more than 20 students on the first day of classes Monday. But that figure is likely to change before the official enrollment count for the state is taken on Sept. 20. “These numbers are tentative. We anticipate growing a little more. We hear there were some more students coming, [...]
The microburst swept across Bethel Church Road north of Osawatomie like a demon in the dark. In a matter of seconds, the powerful wind flattened barns, uprooted giant oaks and tore the roofs off two homes near the corner of 311th Street and Bethel Church Road about 11 p.m. Friday – trapping a woman and [...]
Diana Neal was surprised to hear from state officials Wednesday morning. She was even more shocked to hear that they had recanted their hard-line stance of not allowing the Osawatomie Christmas in October group she spearheads to be exempt from new state regulations regarding the handling of lead paint. The Kansas Department of Health and [...]
The Locker Room sporting goods store will be closing its doors this fall. Owner Susie Jones said the sluggish economy and a steady decline in sales have forced her to shut down the business, located at 522 Main St. “Our last day this month will be Aug. 28,” Jones said. “We will be open on [...]