Month: December

Geography with Goudge

Women’s Volleyball Champions NCAA Div. I (1981-2022) The 2023 NCAA Women’s Volleyball National Championship will be held this weekend in Tampa, FL.  Nebraska, Pittsburgh, Texas and Wisconsin are among the final four teams.  Over the course of 42 years (1981-2022) only twelve different teams have been crowned champions.  During the first 20 years (1981-2000) schools

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EFE SWAT students sing for retired teachers

Eugene Field Elementary students performed, December 7, delightful Christmas songs for the Nodaway Association of Retired Staff and Educators at the Nodaway County Senior Center. The kindergarten to fourth grade students are this quarter’s SWAT or Spoofhounds Working as a Team. Each classroom has one representative. President Trudy Kinman said the group looks forward to

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Jimmy Bodle 

Jimmy Dean Bodle, 65, died December 9, 2023, at his home. He was born October 14, 1958, in Kansas City, to Robert Eugene Bodle and Loretta Mills Patterson. He attended Nodaway-Holt School and graduated in 1976. In May of 1976, he joined the US Coast Guard where he was stationed in Oswego, NY, Marquette, MI

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Billy Shelton

Billy F. Shelton, 99, Maryville, died Monday, December 11, 2023, at Parkdale Manor. He was born October 25, 1924, in Burlington Jct, to Harry and MayRee Byers Shelton. He was a graduate of Horace Mann HighSchool, Maryville. On March 20, 1949, he married Deloris Hilsabeck in Maryville. She preceded him in death February 7, 2020.

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Mark Harvey

Mark E. Harvey, 58, Clearmont, died Friday, December 8, 2023, at his home. He was born on August 17, 1965, in Hiawatha, KS, to Don and Donna Harvey. He was a graduate of Sabetha High School, Class of 1984. He attended Flint Hills Technical College for HVAC graduating in 1993. Mr. Harvey was an electrician,

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Leland Messner

Leland LaVerne Messner, 88, Spring Hill, KS, died Monday December 4, 2023, at his home. He was born October 16, 1935 in Gentry County to  Leonard and Alma Johnson Messner. He graduated from Stanberry High School in the Class of 1953 where he was known as the flying Red Horse. In March of 1957, he married

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Evelyn Gray

Evelyn C. Gray, 84, Hopkins, died Thursday, December 7, 2023, at Mosaic Life Care – Maryville. She was born April 21, 1939, in Georgiana, AL, to Harvey and Lilly Mitchell Cartwright. On August 25, 1954, she married Charles Edward Gray in Georgiana. He preceded her in death July 14, 2016. Mrs. Gray had worked at

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Russell Euler

The spirit of Russell Euler, 73, of Maryville, was ushered into Heaven on December 8, 2023, in Maryville, Missouri. Russ was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, on May 18, 1950, to Banie and Dorris Strong Euler. On August 23, 1974, Russ was united in marriage to Pamala DeWar at Copeland Baptist Church in St. Joseph.

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