Keith Mowry

Gordon “Keith” Mowry, 76, died Saturday, March 28, 2020. He was born September 26, 1943, in Graham, to Leslie and Opal Sybert Mowry. He graduated from high school in 1961. Mr. Mowry served with the US Army 18th Aviation Company as a U-1A Otter pilot and crew chief in Vietnam. In 1966, he married Marlene

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Norma Helzer

Norma Jean Helzer, 86, Maryville, died Sunday, March 29, 2020, at Oak Pointe, Maryville. She was born March 16, 1934, in Graham, to Charles and Thelma Baer Dicken. She was a graduate of Graham High School. On July 14, 1952, she married Kenneth W. Helzer. He preceded her in death December 10, 2006. Mrs. Helzer’s

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Positive COVID-19 case in Nodaway County

Nodaway County Health Department Administrator, Tom Patterson, announces a Nodaway County, Missouri resident has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by Quest Laboratory. The affected individual is a female between 50-59 years of age and a resident of Nodaway County. The individual is under the care of Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph. The

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Donna Degase

Donna Karyl Degase, 73, Clarinda, IA, formerly of Maryville, died Sunday, March 29, 2020, at her home. She was born August 24, 1946, at St. Francis Hospital in Maryville, to Donald Cleo and Norma Ruth Archibald Kling. She grew up in Maryville and graduated from Maryville High School with the class of 1964. She also

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Donna Burns

Donna Rae Akers Burns, 82, died Saturday, February 29, 2020, in Maryville. She was born March 21, 1937, near Gravity, IA, to Darrell and Atha Cunning Akers. She graduated from Gravity High School in 1955. On March 25, 1955, she married Wayne Morehouse. He preceded her in death in 1958. On May 23, 1959, she

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Norma Edmonds

Norma Frances Cole Edmonds, 96, formerly of Butler and Nevada, died March 26, 2020, at Maryville Living Center, Maryville. She was born January 27, 1924, in Horton, to John and Edyth Cole. She graduated from high school in Rich Hill. She was married to William Donald Edmonds in 1946 and they later divorced. A private

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Maryville council struggles through meeting

The Maryville City Council held a public hearing for a special use permit at the new Maryville Public Safety facility at the onset of the March 23 meeting with no public seated in the gallery. The regularly scheduled meeting’s general public were not allowed to address the council in person due to the COVID-19 edict

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US attorney urges the public to report suspected COVID-19 fraud

On March 22, US Attorney Tim Garrison urged the public to report suspected fraud schemes related to COVID-19 by calling the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) hotline, 1.866.720.5721, or writing to the NCDF email address at disaster@leo.gov. The department of justice is committed to preventing, pursuing, prosecuting, and punishing individuals and businesses that take

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Maryville R-II prepares for extended academic instruction

As MR2 moves into an extended closure, we are preparing a more specific approach to academic instruction. Please understand during this unprecedented time, we aren’t trying to replicate school. Instead, we are trying our best to keep kids engaged and limit academic slide. For consistency, all teachers are using a template to provide a few

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