Stories from Monday, April 20, 2015

Montez Lucretia Cloud, 95, of Vinita, Okla., died at 4:10 p.m. Thursday, April 16. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 24, at Union Cemetery, Rocky Comfort, under direction of McQueen Funeral Home, Wheaton.

Randy Darrell Ingram, 52, of Pierce City, died Thursday April 16, at Roaring River Nursing Center in Cassville. Memorial services for Randy are incomplete at this time and will be announced at a later date.

Bennie "Ben" Loudermilk, 85, of Washburn, died Friday, April 17. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 21, at White Funeral Home and Crematory in Cassville. Burial will immediately follow at the Maplewood Cemetery in Exeter. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, April 20 at the funeral home...

EIGHTY YEARS AGO April 12-18, 1935 J.P. Martin was named on April 12 as the acting postmaster at Monett, succeeding S.A. Chapell, who resigned to take over as the city's finance commissioner following the death of J.H. Smedley. By this appointment, the son of one of the early founders of the town of Monett succeeds a man who has been closely identified with the history of the town since its beginning. ...

EIGHTY YEARS AGO April 19-25, 1935 It appears that towns in this section that have units of the National Guard will get new armories. The government expects towns that want public improvements under the work relief plan, or want to obtain public funds for any purpose, to present their demands and support them with proper facts. Congressman Dewey Short said the House subcommittee on the National Guard, on which he sits, held hearings on funding new armories, including in Monett and Pierce City...