Month: April

Petal Crawl expands with 8 greenhouses

Gas up your vehicle, put on your favorite road trip playlist and join the 2024 Petal Crawl throughout Northwest Missouri. The greenhouse tour will be Friday through Sunday, April 26 – 28. The third annual event has brought even more greenhouses as participants. Simply pickup a passport and map out your first stop, then travel

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George Gumm

George Edward Gumm, 91, Maryville, died Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at Mosaic Medical Center – Maryville with family at his side. Mr. Gumm was born on February 24, 1933, in Tindall. He was a resident of Maryville for the past 67 years. He graduated from the Spickard High School and had attended Northwest Missouri State

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Rosellyn Voggesser

Rosellyn Voggesser, 85, Maryville, died Saturday, March 30, 2024, at her home. She was born November 2, 1938, in Maryville, to Oland E. and Audrey L. Birkenholz Ringold. She was a graduate of Horace Mann High School and attended Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville. On May 25, 1958, she married Max A. Voggesser in Maryville.

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Dr. Sherry Mustapha

Dr. Sherry Lee Mustapha, 88, Overland Park, KS, died Sunday, March 24, 2024. She was born January 13, 1936, in Maryville, to Ross C. Wells and Gladys M. Ross. She graduated from Maryville High School in 1953 and received her RN in 1956 from the St. Luke’s School of Nursing in Kansas City. She later

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LeRoy West 

Everett LeRoy West, 88, Omaha, NE, died Monday, January 22, 2024, at the Nebraska Methodist Hospital in Omaha. He was born January 7, 1936, at the country home northeast of Burlington Jct. to Everett and Beulah Maier West. In 1942 the family moved to a farm near Parnell, where he attended Bunker Hill and Logan

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David Winters

David Joseph Winters, 62, Maryville, died Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at his home. He was born May 15, 1961, in Kansas City, to Joe and Mary Lu Valk Winters. He was a 1981 graduate of North Kansas City High School. Mr. Winters worked for NoCoMo for 42 years. He also worked summers for 29 years

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Lisa Smeltzer

Lisa Gay Smeltzer, 61, Maryville, died Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at her home. She was born December 27, 1962, in Tulsa, OK, to James and Naoma Smeltzer. She graduated from Maryville High School and held a bachelor’s degree in theater and masters in business administration from Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville. Ms. Smeltzer served as

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Northwest earns nearly half a million dollars in energy efficiency rebates

Energy efficiency is paying off for Northwest Missouri State University. During the March 21 Regents meeting at the university, Evergy, which supplies the Northwest campus with electrical energy, presented the institution with a large check for $409,646 to celebrate its energy-efficient projects during the last five years that have saved the equivalent of a year’s

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North Nodaway presents ‘The Jungle Book’

North Nodaway High School presents “The Jungle Book” at 6 pm, Saturday, April 6 and 2 pm, Sunday, April 7 at The Roxy in Hopkins. The cast and crew are front: Jackie Wray, Amy Richards, Sadee Clapp, Casey Wray, Arianna Jimenez, Addalea Barcus; back: Kately Parman, Gannon Volner, Morgan Pope, Sydney Whipple and Olivia Renfro.

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