Stories from Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Brian Edward Roach, age 53, of Stotts City, Missouri, died at 4:35 p.m. on Friday, June 7, 2019, at his home. Graveside services were held Tuesday, June 11, at the Mt. Vernon City Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of the Fossett-Mosher Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon...

Donald Lee McDowell, 87, of Marionville, died Thursday, June 6, at the Aurora Nursing Center. A graveside service, under the direction of the Williams Funeral Home in Marionville, will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12, at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Springfield...

Mary Nadine January, 91, of Shell Knob, died Thursday, May 16. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 22, at Fohn Funeral Home in Shell Knob.

Deanne “Dee” Ellen Welch, 77, of Aurora, passed away Friday, June 7, 2019, in her home. She was born to Clinton and Juaneva Rogers Lee on September 25, 1941, in Burbank, CA. Dee and her husband Bill were owners of the Honey Creek Golf Course in Aurora...

Douglas Eugene Hobson, 80, of Monett, Mo., passed from this life peacefully on Sunday, June 9, 2019, while at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Mo. Doug was born on March 9, 1939 in Verona, Mo., son of the late Doyle and Vera (Ash) Hobson. He graduated from Monett High School with the Class of 1957. He attended Southwest Missouri State in Springfield, Mo., and continued his degree, graduating from John A. Gupton of Mortuary Science in Nashville, Tenn., in 1960...

The 2019 Monett Youth Baseball and Softball League Four States Dental Care 8-and-under softball team.

The 2019 Monett Youth Baseball and Softball League Century 21 Properties Unlimited Cal Ripken Minor League team.

The Monett Water Thrashers Invitational held June 1 resulted in another first place finish for the team.

In the end, it was for charity, but the Grin Iron Classic on Saturday allowed area seniors standouts one more chance to play under the lights on Saturday at the 18th annual Grin Iron Classic at JFK Stadium in Springfield. Monett’s William Murphy and his West Side came up short, with the East squad winning 47-29, but had fun anyway...

Monett Special Road District commissioners will meet at 5:15 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, at the district board, 220 S. Eisenhower, west of the wastewater treatment plant. Ride and activity tickets for the Light the Night celebration in Aurora on June 15 are now available. ...

Despite a rain scare in the afternoon, the First on Front Street concert series for 2019 got underway on Friday at the Jerry D. Hall Memorial Pavilion in Monett, sponsored by First State Bank of Purdy.

The famous Verona cow train, made from plastic barrels into train cars and painted like Holsteins, wound its path around the Sacred Heart Catholic Church grounds as part of the entertainment for Summer Fun Days.

The Lawrence County Relay for Life fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, held Saturday in the Mt. Vernon square, raised to date more than $12,000 to aid the fight against cancer.

DietSpotlight is a nutrition and weight loss website launched 10 years ago, which gets 30 million visitors annually, according to Summer Banks, director of content, and the company has been compiling data via volunteer survey throughout the country...

A Monett man was arrested on Saturday for driving while intoxicated and causing a two-vehicle collision at Summit Street and Kyler in Monett. According to Monett Police, Angel Cardenas, of Monett, was driving south on Kyler in a 2006 Chrysler at an excessive speed. His vehicle struck the driver’s door of an eastbound 2013 Chrysler Sebring, driven by Miranda Nute, of rural Stotts City, who was leaving work from the Tyson Foods employee parking lot at 1:16 a.m...

About 35 people gathered in the living room of 526 W. Logan in Monett on Saturday for the dedication of the 11th home built by the Monett/Purdy affiliate of Habitat for Humanity. Tiffany Cardenas and her four sons were on hand to receive their new home through the dedication service. Judge Mike Garrett conducted the closing of the sale of the house at the end of May...

More than three years ago, the taxpayers in Wheaton approved for a $1 million bond issue for a new FEMA shelter. The Wheaton school district approved a general obligation bond refunding, resulting in net savings of over $86,000. The bond resolution authorized the sale of $935,000 in bonds, at an average interest rate of 2.33 percent. ...

Verona City Council members wrestled with infrastructure issues in May, reaching agreement on how to handle flooding on Browning Street while deadlocking on several other proposals. Recent rains brought several stormwater runoff issues to leaders’ attention. ...

Pierce City parents who send money for their children’s school lunches will have to dig a little deeper into those pockets starting next fall. School lunch prices are set to jump anywhere from 5 cents to 35 cents, depending on what campus the student is attending...

Cox Monett Hospital participated in a virtual training exercise developed around the New Madrid Fault earthquake scenario this week, bringing the CoxHealth communications trailer into the mix of high tech response tools. Chewy Vroman, Cox Monett communications technician, and Samson Porter, CoxHealth emergency management director, staffed the CoxHealth communications van. ...

About a dozen visitors attended the June meeting of the Pierce City Council to find answers as to what would ultimately happen with the municipal pool. The facility was closed earlier in the week due to a motor bearing malfunction. Public Works employee Shelby Berry took the pump to Joplin for repairs and learned it could not be fixed. In pricing a new one, he came up with a total of $3,500 to $4,000 for a replacement...

Aurora police officers and Lawrence County Sheriff's deputies have arrested two teens and are seeking a third for vandalism of the Lee Cemetery near Verona on May 31. According to a press release by Sheriff Brad DeLay Curtis Board, 17, Matthew Levan, 17, and Holden Davenort, 17, all of Aurora, have been charged with first-degree property damage, a felony, and first-degree trespassing by the Lawrence County Prosecutor. Board and Davenport are in custody, and Levan has not been arrested...

A thunderhead rolling into Purdy shortly before 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12, dumped considerable rain in the town.