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Lane Scherff and Lori Dawn Nelson of West Plains are the parents of a baby girl, Emerson Lane Scherff, born May 7, 2018, at Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains. She weighed 6 pounds 13.5 ounces and was 20 inches long.Grandparents are Mike and Andrea Scherff and Rick and Brenda Nelson, all of West...
Jesse and BettyLou Miller of Gainesville are the parents of a baby boy, Liam Jesse, born May 14, 2018, at Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains. He weighed 9 pounds, 14 1/2 ounces, and was 20 inches long.His siblings are Jace, 3, and Cambria, 1.His grandparent is Rhonda Wade, West Plains.
Bradley and Vanessa Cooper Stefka of Springfield are theparents of a baby girl, Violet Elle, born April 26, 2018, at Cox Medical Center South in Springfield. She weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces and was 21 inches long.She has one brother, Judson, 3.Maternal grandparents are Harold and Pam Cooper of...
Funeral services for Leon Leroy Lane, 82, of Squires, were held May 29, 2018, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Ava with Pastor Junior Hall officiating. Mr. Lane died May 24 at Cox South Hospital in Springfield with his family around him. He was born Aug. 20, 1935, in Wichita, Kansas, the son of...
A local visitation for Rena D. Lininger, 94, of  Kansas City North, will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 2, 2018, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Gainesville. Graveside services will follow at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Isabella Cemetery in Isabella with Dale Roberts officiating.  Mrs....
Funeral services for Georgia Ann Robbins-Evans, 78, of Gainesville, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 31, 2018, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Gainesville. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today, Wednesday, at the funeral home. Mrs. Evans died May 25 at her home.She was born June 20, 1939...
A celebration of the life of Dale F. Starkey, 69, of Theodosia, formally of St. Anne Illinois, will be scheduled at a later date. Mr. Starkey died Friday, May 25, 2018, at Cox South Hospital in Springfield after a four-month battle with lymphoma and other complications.He was born March 7, 1949, in...

Marv Looney, left, told the Times this photo was taken in 1957 or ’58 when he and his fellow fisherman friends, the late Jollie Pace and Don Rackley, caught three limits of bass one night on Bull Shoals Lake while fishing out of what was then Pontiac Boat Dock. He believes they were fishing from a boat owned by Pace and another friend, John R. Sims, and it “probably had a 10 hp motor on it.” At the time, Looney and his wife, the late Delores Robbins Looney, owned the Rod and Gun Motel on W Highway near Pontiac, and Marv also taught school in Gainesville. He went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas and serve as president or chancellor of colleges around the country, retiring back to Pontiac after ending his career as chancellor of what is now Missouri State University-West Plains.
Ozark County NewsMay 30, 1889 Boone & Mishler’s marble shop at this place has just finished a very fine monument for F. E. Norton, deceased, to be put up at his grave near St. Ledger [now Udall]. It is said to be the finest monument in the county. The inscriptions were cut by J. A. Miller. May...
A private service for Barbara Ann Johnson, 64, of Bakersfield, will be held at a later date. Mrs. Johnson died May 12, 2018, at Fulton County Hospital in Salem, Arkansas.She was born June 19, 1953, in Sycamore, Illinois, the daughter of James and Norma Jean Littlejohn McLarning. On March 9, 1974,...
Funeral services for Brenda Lee Hambelton Amyx, 59, of Gainesville, were held May17, 2018, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Gainesville. Mrs. Hambelton died May 12 at Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains.She was born June 5, 1958, in Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of Loyd and Velma Forrest Hambelton...

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