Stories from Wednesday, November 6, 2013

The Barry-Lawrence Regional Library was closed on Monday, Oct. 14 for its yearly district staff meeting. Details on the sessions were shared at the October library board of directors meeting. The meeting was held at the Monett Branch and had two themes: customer service and safety. ...

Colonel Chad Sparks, the new senior officer with the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program at the Scott Community Technology Center, offered details about his background and working in JROTC for a recent meeting of the Monett Kiwanis Club...

Exploration into adding more sports for students at the Verona R-7 School District continued during discussion at the October meeting of the Verona school board. Athletic director Brad Stewart presented information about adding baseball, softball and soccer to the sports program. Stewart said he was looking at a spring season for softball and baseball, with so many area districts switching from the fall schedule...

The holiday season is quickly approaching and area residents are once again coming together to brighten the lives of millions of children around the world. Volunteers are preparing to collect over 500 gift-filled shoeboxes for the world's largest project of its kind, Operation Christmas Child...

At the edge of the sunset on Nov. 1, a sliver of brilliant crimson lit up the horizon above downtown Monett, one more testimonial to the changing seasons.

EIGHTY YEARS AGO Nov. 6, 1933 A 24th Judicial District Bar Association came into existence in a few minutes at a banquet held at the Monett Park Casino. Judge Emory Smith, of Monett, heads the new group. When M.J. Myers drove his plodding oxen down Broadway on Saturday afternoon, you could tell he was from south Texas, by the roll of his sombrero. The oxen are eight years old, coming from old Mexico, and are shod so their feet will not wear out on the graveled roads...

The five-by-eight-foot mural "Pierce City Remembered" will be unveiled in a ceremony from 4 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7 at the Pierce City Library Branch. Muralist Sherry Pettey will be present. The Monett Special Road District commissioners will meet at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at the Monett City Hall conference room...

FORT CHAFFE, Ark.----The two week annual training for the Missouri National Guard's 1-138th Infantry Regiment, including Company D, based at the Monett National Guard Armory, culminated with a battalion-level cordon and search training exercise. With the companies of the 1-138th spread across the state, annual training is one of the few times a year the entire battalion comes together and exercise battalion-level tasks. ...

The top 15 runners plus the runners from the top two teams at district cross-country qualify to the state championship meet. Monett's Dalton Paynter punched his ticket to Jefferson City on Saturday, Nov. 2, taking 14th in the Class 3, District 6 boys race at Bolivar with his 18:03.58 performance. He was the only area Class 3 runner to qualify for state...

The Monett Lady Cubs softball season concluded in the Class 3 quarterfinals but the Purple and Gold are just now starting to collect post-season honors for their play. Five Lady Cubs received first team Big 8 softball recognition. Monett was also well represented on the All-District and All-Region team...

Judith Elaine Holle, age 53, of Pierce City, Mo., loving wife, mother and grandmother went home to be with her Lord on Sunday evening, Nov. 3, 2013, while at Cox South Hospital in Springfield, Mo. Judith was born on Nov. 27, 1959 in Webb City, Mo., the only child born to Robert and Evelyn (Hood) Troxel...

Dorotha Lea Mulvaney, age 88, of Monett, Mo., passed from this life to her heavenly home on Monday evening, Nov. 4, 2013, while at Lacoba Homes in Monett, following a lengthy illness. Dorotha was born on Aug. 5, 1925 in Delaware County, Okla., the daughter of Samuel J. ...

Glen Andrew Daniel, age 86, of Ozark, formerly of Aurora, died on Sunday, Nov. 3, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield. A graveside service, under the direction of the Crafton-Cantrell Funeral Home, in Aurora, will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at the Calton Cemetery in Pleasant Ridge...

Edna M. Adcock, age 99, of Aurora, died at 8:26 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 1, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield. A graveside service, under the direction of the Crafton-Cantrell Funeral Home, in Aurora, will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at the Maple Park Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 12 to 2 p.m. in the funeral home, prior to the service...

Robert "Joe" Fondren, age 59, of Humansville, formerly of Cassville, died at 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cassville, under direction of Fohn Funeral Home, Cassville...

Delores Marie (Mattingly) Hall, age 76, of Exeter, died at 9:02 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7, in Maplewood Cemetery, Exeter, under direction of Fohn Funeral Home, Cassville. There will be no visitation...