Stories from Monday, September 21, 2015

Nellie Ernestine Melville, 80, of Mt. Vernon, died at 10:53 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, at Cox Hospital South in Springfield. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at Fossett-Mosher Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon. Burial will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at the Highland Cemetery in Pawnee, Okla...

Dorothy Hazel Lyall, 87, of Cassville, died at 4:12 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 20. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Fohn Funeral Home, Cassville. Burial will be in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Cassville. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, at Fohn Funeral Home, Cassville...

EIGHTY YEARS AGO Sept. 20-26, 1935 Is it possible that hunger is the big offensive on the football grounds in these depression years? Proper stamina wasn't there when Monett's football team lost to Cassville 19-0. Coach Ryan found at least two boys went into the game without first having food with the old staying qualities in their stomachs. ...

Sadie Ellen Mullins, 88, of Monett, went to be with her Lord in Heaven Saturday, Sept. 19, at Lacoba Nursing Center in Monett. She was born on March 7, 1927, in Monett, the daughter of the late Edward A. and Irene E. (Beck) Shideler Sr. She was united in marriage on March 17, 1945, in Monett,to Henry Mullins. He survives...