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Graveside funeral services for Delano R. Daniel, 84, of Mount Vernon, were held Jan. 22, 2018, in the Sims Cemetery with Jimmy Kyle officiating. Mr. Daniel died Jan. 17 at the Mount Vernon Place Care Center in Mount Vernon.  He was born July 7, 1933, in Gainesville, the son of Murl W. and Willa O....

Wilma Loftis Stucenski, 90
Funeral services for Wilma Deane Loftis Stucenski, 90, of Westfield, Massachusetts, will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, at Firtion Adams Funeral Home in Westfield followed by a Mass at 10 a.m. in Holy Trinity Church, also in Westfield. Mrs. Stucenski died Jan. 19 at Westfield Gardens in...

Eva ‘Lois’ Lewis, 88
Funeral services for Eva “Lois” Lewis, 88, of Gainesville, were held  Jan. 20, 2018, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Gainesville with Clayton King officiating. Mrs. Lewis died Jan. 17 at Gainesville Health Care Center in Gainesville. She was born Oct. 6, 1929, on Lick Creek, the daughter of Johnny...

Deborah “Debbie” Lynn DeGase, 53
Funeral services for Deborah Lynn DeGase, 53, of Gainesville were held Jan. 23, 2018, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Ava with Pastor Mike Vlad officiating. Ms. DeGase died Jan. 19 at the Select Specialty Hospital in Springfield. She was born July 14, 1964, in Potosi, the daughter of Paul Lawrence...

Willard Leo Barnett, 82
Funeral services for Willard Leo Barnett, 82, of Sedalia, were held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018, at Heckart Funeral Home in Sedalia. Mr. Barnett died Jan. 14 at his home. He was born July 27, 1935, in Lutie, the son of Emory Oscar Barnett and Vonnie Shirley Friend Barnett. On Feb. 14, 1952...

Erman E. Edmonds, 82
Funeral services for Erman E. Edmonds, 82, of West Plains, were held Jan. 16, 2018, at Carter Funeral Home in West Plains. Mr. Edmonds died Jan. 9 in West Plains.  He was born Oct. 3, 1935, in Dora. He lived most of his life in Kansas City and proudly worked in the concrete industry as a member of...

Arthur Doyle ‘Buddy’ Herd, 94
Funeral services for Arthur Doyle “Buddy” Herd, 94, of Thornfield, were held Jan. 23, 2018, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Gainesville with Dale Roberts officiating. Mr. Herd died Jan. 19 at his home. He was born on New Year’s Day, 1924, near Isabella, the son of Austin and Carrie Capehart Herd....

Zane Robert Dale Watkins
Brandon Watkins and Samantha Wiles of Caulfield are the parents of a baby boy, Zane Robert Dale Watkins, born Dec. 27, 2017, at Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains. He weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces, and was 20 inches long. His siblings are Kaleb, 9; Caylee, 8; Zoey, 6; and Kennedey, 4.  Grandparents...

A Jan. 25, 1918, item in this week’s Times Past reports that Bakersfield residents gathered to go coasting (sledding) on the “schoolhouse hill.” The sledding site was the former location of this stately Bakersfield school building, which is described in an unidentified newspaper clipping as “the pride of the community ... in the early 1900s.” The building, which housed the first high school classes to be held in Bakersfield in 1914, burned just after the new year began in 1915. According to Times publisher Ruby Robins’ history of the school published in the Aug. 31, 1983, edition of the Times, a few months after the wooden building burned, a concrete schoolhouse was constructed. That building, which opened in 1915, was destroyed by a tornado in June 1928 and was replaced by the school that was eventually demolished before the construction last year of Bakersfield’s current school building.
Ozark County Times Jan. 25, 1918 The sad intelligence was reported here a few days ago that Martin Alsup, son of H. F. Alsup of South Fork, had died suddenly of strangulation while at the hospital at Ft. Sill, Okla., where he and his father had been called to be present when an operation for an...
The children of Bonnie Luna of Gainesville and the late Delbert Luna helped Bonnie celebrate her 88th birthday Jan. 9 at the home of their daughter, Marilyn Tilley. Pictured, from left: Carolyn Sue Cockman, Bonnie Luna, Shirley Sinor and Marilyn Tilley. Also present were Larry Cockman, Delbert...

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