Stories from Saturday, October 20, 2018

Dakota Howard Williams-Menear, 17, of Hoberg, died Thursday, Oct. 11 at his home. A funeral service, under the direction of the Fossett-Mosher Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon, was held at October 17, at the Northside Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon. Burial was at the Mt. Vernon City Cemetery...

Beverly Kay Rowell, 74, of Golden, died Tuesday, Oct. 16. No services are scheduled at this time. Cremation arrangements are under direction of Fohn Funeral Home in Cassville.

James Charles “Jim” McGruder, 70, of Neosho, died Monday, Oct. 15. Funeral services were held Friday, Oct. 19, at Fohn Funeral Home in Cassville. Burial was at Maplewood Cemetery in Exeter.

Rodney Lynn Kreutzer, 56, of Aurora, died Tuesday, Oct. 16, at his home. A funeral service, under the direction of the Crafton-Cantrell Funeral Home in Aurora, was held Oct. 19, at the Aurora Church of Christ. Burial was at the Maple Park Cemetery in Aurora...

Robert W. Holt, 81, of Cassville, died Wednesday, Oct. 17. No services are scheduled at this time. Cremation arrangements are under direction of Fohn Funeral Home in Cassville.

Willis Finn, 92, of Oklahoma City, Okla., died Tuesday, Oct. 16. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27, at Buchanan Funeral Home. Rev. Mike Langford will be officiating. Interment will be at the Newtonia I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Arrangements are under the personal care and direction of Buchanan Funeral Home, Monett...

Elmer Henry Stellwagen, age 89, of rural Pierce City, Mo., passed from this life on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at Mercy Hospital in Springfield following a short illness. Elmer was born on June 20, 1929, in rural Freistatt, Mo., son of the late Henry and Rosa (Langer) Stellwagen. ...

Carolyn Sue Mills, 58, of Monett, Mo., passed from this life to her Heavenly home on Monday evening, October 15, 2018, while in the Bentonview Park Health and Rehabilitation Center following a brief illness. She was surrounded and comforted by her loved ones...

Last week was National Newspaper Week. It’s just another week for those of us in the business, but it’s important to take stock of what it means to have, and not have, a newspaper in your community. It means having someone at your city council meeting to pass along what your elected officials are doing. ...

The Monett volleyball team begins its quest for district glory on Tuesday in the opening round of the Class 3, District 12 tournament. The Lady Cubs earned the seventh seed this year and open the tournament on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. against No. 2 seeded Seneca...

With a just a four-team district pod, the Class 2, District 9 boys soccer tournament will only last two days this year. Despite being a small field, the talent pool is as deep as it has been in quite some time. Monett earned the No. 1 seed, and Logan-Rogersville is the No. 2...

For trivia buffs, the answer to a million dollar question may be Monett swimming and diving if the question is, “Who won the first ever Big 8 swimming and diving meet?” On Tuesday, the Cubs ran away from the Big 8 field with 364 team points. Nevada was second with 252, and Logan-Rogersville finished third with 168...

Twenty-six Purdy FFA members attended Field Day at the University of Missouri’s southwest research station near Mt. Vernon on Sept. 13

Pictured are members of the Verona High School Student Council, who hosted a Wild West themed “Escape the School” fundraiser on Oct. 5.

The Scott Regional Technology Center’s JROTC program fielded two air rifle shooting teams that competed in the McDonald County High School “Shoulder to Shoulder” marksmanship competition on Oct. 13 in Anderson. According to Lt. Col. Brennan Cook, senior Army instructor, this was the first year the McDonald County JROTC program sponsored the Shoulder to Shoulder Meet. It is intended to allow some of southwest Missouri’s smaller JROTC programs to compete head-to-head in a friendly environment...

CRIMINAL • Chad Anderjaska: speeding, misd. C, fined $140. • Koby Allen Brown: unlawful possession, transport, manufacture , repair or sale of illegal weapon, misd. A, 30 days jail, credit given for time served. • Riki L. Clark: speeding, misd. C, fined $165...

• Paul D. Brandt, speeding, $112. • Kellie M. Crawford, speeding, $137. • Trevin J. Dacy, driving while suspended, $227. • Beatrice Delatorre, property maintenance code violation, $77. • Tamara E. Dicken, failed to register vehicle, $77. • Tammie S. Duckworth, domestic assault, $26.50 and six months probation...

Schreiber Foods announced the retirement of Tom Holland, effective Sept. 21. Holland started his career with Schreiber Foods on March 28, 1994.

Volunteers from Cox Monett Hospital joined the Habitat for Humanity construction crews on Oct. 6 at 536 W. Logan, placing flooring beams and decking.

David and Sondra Probstfield celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary on Oct. 12.

The singing group Southern Raised will be singing at Ebenezer Baptist Church today, Oct. 20 at 6 p.m. There will be a Chili Supper at 5 p.m. that same evening. Everyone is invited to attend. The church is located 2 miles north of Business 60 on Chapell Drive...

Flummerfelt’s Town and Country Supermarket in Pierce City hosted a flu clinic for customers and area residents on Wednesday.

As a special treat to the Monett High School Class of 1961, which met on Saturday at the Events Center of the Monett Museum, The Monett Times made available its bound volume from 1961 to allow classmates a chance to reminisce over some of the events recorded in the paper...

Pierce City firefighters had an unusual call Wednesday afternoon of a trash truck on its side on Highway PP, just north of Farm Road 2220 in rural Pierce City.

Monett Masonic Lodge No. 129 treated Monettans to its annual fall chicken dinner on Thursday.

A Monett man was injured Thursday in a wreck at 7:15 p.m. on Highway H, two miles north of Freistatt. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, John Graessle, 28, of Monett, was driving a 2013 Lincoln MKZ southbound when his vehicle ran off the roadway, struck a culvert and overturned...

An Eagle Rock man was injured Wednesday in a wreck at 3:40 a.m. on Highway 86, 3/10ths of a mile south of Chain-O-Lakes. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, Kenneth Greenwood, 55, of Eureka Springs, Ark., was driving a 1995 Ford F250 northbound and was pulling a houseboat across the Table Rock bridge when the boat was struck by a 1994 Ford F150, being driven by Ace Gray, 61, of Eagle Rock, as the houseboat was overhanging into Gray’s lane on the bridge...

The Freistatt Village Board of Trustees recently amended its ordinance on making copies of public records and agreed to seek bids for repairs on the Freistatt Community Building. Clerk Deborah Schoen said the Missouri Municipal League recommended amending the ordinance on how the custodian of records should handle fees for copies of public records, and village's attorney Bill Petrus concurred. ...

The Monett/Purdy affiliate of Habitat for Humanity has finalized a new partnership with the Southwest Missouri Board of Realtors to make smaller repairs that will help market homes in the Monett school district and in the nearby communities of Purdy, Butterfield and McDowell...

For 50 years, the Monett Area Extended Employment Workshop has offered jobs to developmentally challenged individuals in Barry and Lawrence counties, allowing them to independently earn a paycheck while working in a sheltered environment at jobs that meet their skill levels...

Former Monettan Susie (Stone) Chidlovski has published her second book, “The Tree of Life,” further recounting her family history that follows a trail back to Native American lineage. Daughter of the late Monettans Glenn and Lela Stone, Chidlovski, a two-decade Monett resident and member of the Monett High School Class of 1960, continued the family story she began in her first book, “Home Again. Home Again. Jiggity, Jig,” by rummaging through family archives...

An annual tradition at Monett High School, Field Day for special needs students was held Thursday.

Monett police have introduced new innovations to support their crime-fighting efforts, which have continued at a busy pace this year. Speaking to the Monett Kiwanis Club, Police Chief George Daoud reported he has reactivated the department’s rapid response team. ...

It wasn’t the smell, or the tears, but an explosion connected to spontaneous combustion of onions that led to the destruction of two trailers at a farm southeast of Freistatt on Thursday. Fifteen firefighters from Freistatt and the Monett city and rural fire departments responded to a reported explosion at 4:45 a.m. on Thursday at a farm on Farm Road 1100, south of Farm Road 2200...

Of the nearly 1,000 people in attendance at the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Springfield on Wednesday, almost 10 percent hailed from Monett as a former coach or player. The Cubs football team was one of six inducted into the 2018 class, along with the 1978 Mt. Vernon state championship team, Dante Hall, Kurt Thompson, David Kendall and Jason Whittle...