Stories from Friday, October 12, 2018

Amna Avila Roca, 42, of Monett, died Tuesday, Oct. 9, at Cox South Hospital in Springfield. Funeral services were held Friday, Oct. 12, at Buchanan Funeral Home with Pastor Arquimides Jimenez officiating. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13, at the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Monett. Arrangements are under the personal care and direction of Buchanan Funeral Home, Monett...

Rex G. McNabb, 74, of Exeter, died Wednesday, Oct. 10. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at Fohn Funeral Home in Cassville. Burial will be at Maplewood Cemetery in Exeter.

Lawson Bradford Hill, 79, of Miller, died Sunday, Oct. 7, at the Good Shepherd Nursing Home in Lockwood. A funeral service was held Thursday, Oct. 11, at the Morris-Leiman-Mosher Funeral Home in Miller. Burial was at the Shiloh Cemetery.

John Lynn Hendrix, 74, of Cassville, died Tuesday, Oct. 9. Funeral services were held Friday, Oct. 12, at Fohn Funeral Home in Cassville. Burial was at King Cemetery in Seligman.

Steve E. Coy, 62, of rural Wentworth, died Thursday, Oct. 11. His wishes were to be cremated. There are no services planned at this time. Arrangements are under the personal care and direction of Buchanan Funeral Home, Monett.

Ginger L. Johnson, 74, of Monett, passed away on Oct. 7, 2018, in Springfield. She was born on Oct. 8, 1943, in Oak Grove, to Halbert and Dorothy (Jackson) Johnson. Ginger is survived by her four children, Gina Tullos, Deanna Hendrickson, Nicole Carson, and Matthew Fortner...

Angel Rose Dillard, 18, of Monett, Mo., tragically passed away in a car accident on Monday, October 8, 2018. Angel was born on August 8, 2000, in Springfield, Mo., daughter of Gary Dillard and Jeannette Wormington. Angel attended Monett schools and had worked for Angus Branch Steakhouse as a waitress. She loved to listen to music and enjoyed cars, especially her own. Angel loved spending time with her family...

Dear Editor: The Tom Dewey picture (Barry-Lawrence Midweek, Oct. 2, from the visit of New York Governor Tom Dewey, and his wife, Frances Hutt Dewey, to Monett on Oct. 14, 1948) brings back a Hall family story. As you may know, V.B. Hall Sr. and my brother, Ben, were on the Harry Truman train as it came to town (on Sept. 29)...

The Pierce City football team held is annual jersey auction Tuesday to help raise funds for the squad and its various needs.

AURORA – The dreary conditions of the late afternoon matched the somber tone of the Monett softball team after a 15-14 loss to McDonald County in the Class 3, District 12 championship. Monett, after overcoming a 12-1 deficit, surrendered a 2-run home run in the bottom of the seventh after taking a 14-13 lead in the top half of the inning...

In its most complete game of the season, Monett (3-5) rallied twice to defeat McDonald County on Friday, 18-12. Roessler put the Mustangs on the board first in the first quarter with a 49-yard touchdown run. Monett countered with a drive in the second quarter and took a 7-6 lead with a William Murphy 3-yard touchdown run...

In a game that had top-flight conference and district implications on the line, it was the Eagles (8-0, 6-0) that soared higher with a 44-12 victory over Miller (6-2, 5-1) on Friday. The first-half battle that initially all belonged to Miller. The Eagles went four-and-out on their first possession. ...

The Purdy FFA Chapter attended the Professional Bull Riding (PBR) event at JQH Arena in Springfield, on Sept. 7.

Monett High School graduate and rural Verona native Lora Wright, an animal science major at Oklahoma State University, received the William Barrett Tallant Endowed Agriculture Scholarship.

Purdy Elementary School has named winners of character medals in September, where teamwork was recognized.

A party was held on Oct. 5 for Dorothy Greenman of Monett, who turned 106.

The Freistatt American Legion Post 419 presented a plaque and gift Jamie Howard, at right, on Monday for his enthusiastic and unwavering support to this Legion in their flag display programs.

The Monett City Council will meet at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 19, at Monett City Hall. Monett Special Road District commissioners will meet at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 16 st the road barn on Eisenhower, west of the wastewater treatment plant. Monett Police Chief George Daoud will be the speaker for the noon meeting of the Monett Kiwanis Club on Oct. 16 at the Family Room steakhouse, First Street and East Broadway...

Welcome signs, in memory of the late Mike Flummerfelt, went up at four locations in Pierce City.

Students from Linda Jelinek’s art class at Pierce City High School spent part of their Friday afternoon at the Lawrence A. Witt Army National Guard Armory restoring the distinctive “houn’ dawg” insignia on the Sherman tank that sits on the front lawn of the facility...

Monett Street Department crews have been busy in recent weeks replacing sections of sidewalk in Monett on Lincoln, Logan, three sections on East Cleveland, and this week, on Broadway from Eighth Street to the new section laid last year east of the Kelly Creek drainway at Ninth Street...

Monett-based Jack Henry and Associates (JHA) recently announced the acquisition of BOLTS Technologies, a Bethlehem, Penn.-based company and developer of boltsOPEN, a next-generation digital account opening solution. "The financial services industry is clearly focused on reengineering the delivery of traditional financial services with digital solutions," said Ron Moses, vice president of JHA and general manager of consumer and commercial solutions. ...

Members of the Mt. Vernon Community Theatre, by special arrangement with Simon French, Inc., will present “Nunsense,” a musical comedy, at the MARC, in Mt. Vernon. The show opens with five of the 19 surviving Little Sisters of Hoboken, a one-time missionary order that ran a leper colony on an island south of France, who discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, accidentally killed the other 52 residents of the convent with her tainted vichyssoise while they were off playing bingo with a group of Maryknolls.. ...

For the seventh year, Drury University's Principles of Leadership class will host three outstanding persons from business and public service, sharing their experiences at Drury's Leadership Summit. The 2018 summit will be held at 7 p.m. on Nov. 1 at the Monett City Park Casino...

Monett Electric Department crews will not be heading to Florida and other areas stricken by Hurricane Michael this week. Monett is part of the Missouri Public Utility Alliance (MPUA), which offers aid to members and other states during disasters. Monett Utilities Superintendent Skip Schaller said the MPUA is sending some crews to assist in the restoration of service...

An Aurora teenager, Mason Farris, who is charged with the second-degree murder on the shooting death of Savannah Hill, 21, of Aurora, entered a plea of not guilty during a video arraignment on Wednesday. The charges stem from an incident that occurred on May 5, in which Farris attempted to flee from officers making a traffic stop at Casey’s General Store on Business Highway 60 in Aurora...

Preschool children at Trinity Lutheran School in Freistatt, while working in centers around the classroom, learn to cooperate and use their imaginations.

Speakers at the University of Missouri’s Southwest Research Center Field Day provided wide ranging information for students and home producers. Angie Whitesell, associate clerkship director for the Missouri School of Medicine, Springfield campus, spoke to high school students attending Field Day about MU’s rural track. ...

Staff and customers at the Monett Sonic restaurant had their usual lunchtime routine disrupted on Wednesday by a customer’s car jumping forward unexpectedly and crashing into the building. According to manager Gary Van Note, an elderly couple that visits the restaurant regularly pulled into stall No. ...

An extensive review of the Monett school district's health related policies was part of the health services program review approved by the school board recently. Assistant Super-intendent Mike Evans and Kristen Earnest, lead school nurse, prepared the annual report. ...

Pierce City homecoming king Bouz Linn, son of Aaron and Lisa Linn, placed the crown on the head of his homecoming queen Chloe Blackburn, in a crowning ceremony held Friday in the PCHS cafeteria.

On Wednesday, a Lawrence County man was sentenced to life in prison without parole for first degree murder. Newton County Circuit Judge Timothy Perigo sentenced Shannon Hensley, 46, to life in prison without parole for first degree murder, 20 years for robbery, 15 years for burglary and 30 years for armed criminal action in the death of Nolan Karch, 82, in December 2016...

Summer activity at the Monett Regional Airport has inched slightly higher than a year ago, though more business flights and fewer pleasure-connected trips slightly tipped the ingredients that led to that sum. According to the weekday, business hour tally of flights in and out of the airport, a total of 2,175 take-offs and landings occurred between June 1 and Sept. 30, the busiest time of the year at the airport, up 22 from the same four-month period a year ago...

The Village of Freistatt has had a lawsuit filed against it and its city officials for violation of rights under the federal Constitution. Landlord Randy Davidson and his wife, Bonnie, filed a civil case in the Southwestern Division of the Western District Court on Missouri. ...

This week, two incidents took place involving the Monett police that warrant attention, as they were not reported in The Monett Times. One took place on Tuesday. Dispatch received a call from the Gene Taylor VA Outpatient Clinic in Mt. Vernon. One of their clients, a veteran from Monett, had expressed suicidal desires and had left to return home...