Month: April

March 30, 2021

Presiding Commissioner Bill Walker called the meeting of the Nodaway County Commission to order at the commissioner’s office. In attendance: Walker, Chris Burns and Scott Walk, associate commissioners and Melinda Patton, county clerk. Burns made a motion to approve the agenda as presented. The motion passed. Burns made a motion to approve prior commission minutes

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Anna McIrvin

Anna Margaret McIrvin, 94, Maryville, died Tuesday, March 30, 2021, at her home. She was born June 12, 1926, in Bosworth, to William and Flora Berrier Henderson. She was a graduate of Bosworth High School. On December 21, 1946, she married Leroy J. “Mac” McIrvin in Troy, KS. He preceded her in death April 14,

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Rick Wolfe

Rick Lee Wolfe, 61, Springfield, formerly of the Graham area, died Monday, March 29, 2021, at his home in Springfield. He was born October 20, 1959, in Maryville, to George Andrew “Porge” Wolfe and Joann Nell Shipps Peter. He graduated in 1978 from Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School in Graham. On February 14, 1989, he married

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James Welch

James “Alan” Welch, 68, Parnell, died Friday, March 26, 2021, at his home. He was born August 15, 1952, in Sheridan, to James M. and Rose Ann Frueh Welch. He was a graduate of Sheridan High School. Mr. Welch’s body has been cremated under the care of Price Funeral Home. A memorial service will be

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Beverly Johansen

Beverly Kay Beeks Johansen, 73, Peculiar, died Wednesday, March 24, 2021, at her home. She was born September 4, 1947, in Columbia, to John C. and Arlene Trullinger Beeks. She was a 1965 graduate of Maryville High School and received her undergraduate degree and master’s degree from Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville. She was near

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Phyllis Napiecek

Phyllis Yvonne Hilger Napiecek, 95, died Sunday, March 28, 2021, at LaVerna Village Senior Living in Savannah. She was born August 15, 1925, in Waterloo, IA, to Fred and Lucille Close Hilger. She graduated from Sacred Heart High School in Waterloo and trained as a laboratory and x-ray technician in Clinton, IA. On August 27,

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Homer Ulmer

Homer Galen Ulmer, 92, Hopkins, died Friday, March 26, 2021, at Maryville Living Center, Maryville. He was born March 5, 1929, in Hopkins, to Galen F. and Ola F. Eshelman Ulmer. He graduated from Hopkins High School in 1947. On May 22, 1949, he married Phyllis E. Melvin in Pickering. She preceded him in death

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Mary Lou Sledge

Mary Lou Sledge, 93, Dayton, OR, formerly of Ravenwood, died Saturday, March 20, 2021 in Oregon. A memorial service was held Friday, March 26 at the Williamette Valley Baptist, Aumsville, OR.

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Ralph Wilson

Ralph Wilson, 69, Maitland, died Sunday, February 28, 2021, in Lincoln, NE. A graveside memorial service will be at 11 am, Sunday, April 11 at the Maitland Cemetery, Maitland.

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NEN celebrates Missouri Read-In Day

On March 12, the entire Northeast Nodaway school celebrated Missouri Read-In Day. Approved through legislation and recognized by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Missouri Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven and Missouri State Teachers Association, Read-In Day is the second Friday in March. PTO supplied students preschool through sixth grade with new hardcover books

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