Jack R. Joy, 71, of Benedict, father of Kathy (Katie) Sander of Elsmore, died Sunday, June 27, 2010, at his home.
Cremation has taken place.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Weakley Cemetery near New Albany.
Memorials to Hope Unlimited may be sent to Timmons Funeral Home, P.O. Box 168, Fredonia, KS 66736.
Lee Anthony
Lee Anthony, 91, of Le Roy died Sunday, June 27, 2010, at Life Care Center in Burlington.
He was born July 26, 1918, in Le Roy, to Dewey and Anna Anthony.
As a young man he was a professional baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers and Kansas City Athletics. Later in life he was a scout for professional baseball teams.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1947.
On July 26, 1943, he married Aileen Goddard. He was a member of Masonic Lodge Neosho No. 27 in Le Roy for 60 years. She died in February 2006.
Two brothers and a sister died earlier.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Le Roy Cemetery.
Memorials to Neosho Lodge No. 27 Scholarship Fund may be left at Van Arsdale Funeral Home in Le Roy, which is in charge of arrangements.
Rosita Petree
Rosita Mae Croner Petree, 73, of Moran died Friday, June 25, 2010, at Allen County Hospital in Iola.
She was born Sept. 21, 1936, in Gridley, to Jesse and Ada (Rooney) Croner. She grew up in the Westphalia area.
She married Robert Kelley in 1951. They had two children and later divorced. She lived in Colony from 1955 until 1975. On July 2, 1977, she married Eugene H. Petree. They made their home in Topeka where she worked as a health technician at several Topeka nursing homes. They moved to Moran in 1980.
She liked her flowers and making quilts for her family.
She is survived by her husband of the home; a daughter, Vicki Long and her husband, Earl “Butch,” Iola; a son, Ronald Kelley and his wife, Liz, The Woodlands, Texas; three granddaughters, Angela Laughlin, Overland Park, Jennifer Long, Osage City, and Kayla Kelley, The Woodlands; four great-grandchildren; two half brothers, Chet Kershner, Moran, and Kenneth Johnson, Gridley; and several nieces and nephews.
Nine half brothers and two half sisters died earlier.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Cherry Mound Cemetery in rural Westphalia.
Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service in Moran.
Memorials to Allen County Animal Rescue Facility may be left at the funeral home. Condolences to the family may be left online at feuerbornfuneral.com.
‘Bob’ Collins
Robert ‘Bob’ Charles Collins, 80, of Stark, father of Ricky Bruneau of Humboldt, died Friday, June 25, 2010, at his home.
He was born April 1, 1930, to Oral and Dorothy (Richwine) Collins. He attended and graduated from Grant Township High School. He then attended Neosho County Community College for one year. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1950. He was inducted Jan. 8, 1951, and discharged Oct. 21, 1954. He served during the Korean War on Bairoko aircraft carrier with two tours of duty in the Yellow Sea from 1952 to 1953. He went through the H-bomb testing in 1954 in the Marshall Islands. Two weeks after being discharged from the Navy he rented a farm and later purchased the farm where he and his wife lived for 44 years.
On Dec. 11, 1965, he married Elissa Ann (Bruneau) Collins. He was a well-known farmer around Stark and the surrounding area. He was a member of United Methodist Church in Stark and a member of Chanute’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1654 Cecil J. Meeker. He was also a member of the National Rifle Association and a board member of the Bank of Commerce in Chanute for many years. He was an avid University of Kansas basketball fan and liked watching and keeping up with all high school sports.
He is survived by his wife of the home; a daughter, Deanna Quillen, Hugoton; two additional sons, Rusty Bruneau, Stark, and Scott Collins, Drexel, Mo.; a sister, Oralee Beggs, Stark; 16 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and extended family and friends.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at United Methodist Church in Stark. The Revs. Pete Smith and Pauline Clugston will officiate. Burial, with military rites, will follow in Mt. Moriah Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Stark United Methodist Church.
Memorials to Stark Alumni or Grant Community Club may be sent in care of Derfelt’s Baxter Chapel, 328 E. 12th St., Baxter Springs, KS 66713. Online condolences for the family may be left at derfeltsbaxterchapel.com.
Josephine Johnson
Grace Josephine Johnson, 86, of Uniontown, died early Thursday, June 24, 2010, at Moran Manor.
She was born April 2, 1924, in Oxford, Colo., to Charles Orville and Grace Emma (Oliver) Handrahan. She attended school in Oxford until the death of her father. Her mother then married William Semler and the family moved to a farm southeast of Uniontown in 1939.
She graduated from Uniontown High School in 1942, and shortly thereafter married Abner D. Johnson on May 24, 1942, in Uniontown. The couple farmed in the Redfield area until 1969 when they moved to Uniontown. He died Feb. 21, 2010.
She enjoyed making quilts and homemade grape jelly for her family. She also enjoyed her garden.
She is survived by her children, Earl “Pat” and his wife, Connie, Redfield, Ancel “Andy” and his wife, Karen, Fort Scott, and Lois Coyan and her husband, George, Redfield; two brothers, Harold Allen Handrahan, Missouri, and Charles Handrahan, Mississippi; a sister, Esther Handrahan, Fort Scott; eight grandchildren, Randy Johnson, Brenda Johnson McConville, Crystal Johnson, Jeff Johnson, Tammy Johnson Frank, Robin Johnson Schrack, Mike Coyan and Doug Coyan, and 17 great-grandchildren.
A brother, John Robert Handrahan, died earlier.
The Rev. Chub Boling officiated at funeral services this morning at Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home in Fort Scott. Burial was in Woods Cemetery near Redfield.
Memorials to The Sharing Bucket may be sent to or left in the care of the funeral home, 15 W. Wall St., P.O. Box 309, Fort Scott, KS 66701.
Fast-growing fish a cheering sign in a growing world
A company called AquaBounty used gene science 10 years ago to develop salmon which grow twice as fast as the wild variety — or the tame ones grown in salmon farms. The Food and Drug Administration has been looking at the science they used for this past decade and are about to agree with AquaBounty that the genetically altered fish are identical to wild and farm-raised salmon and should be welcomed to the world’s table.
This is exceedingly important news — even though it is 10-year-old news.
Salmon that grow twice as fast can be grown at half the cost and feed twice as many people.
Just months ago, the word on the world’s fisheries was grim. Catches were diminishing all over the globe. Scientists were raising alarms. It might be necessary, they said, to ban fishing for certain species in certain locations to let populations recover their numbers.
The AquaBounty success with salmon writes a bright new chapter in that book: if science can, in effect, double the salmon population, then it surely will be possible to do the same for many other varieties of fish.
Much more important, this scientific success is being repeated in crops and farm animals.
Geneticists are confident they can develop hogs that produce leaner bacon. Scientists at a Canadian university have developed an “enviropig,” which has less phosphorus in its manure — which would make hog farms much more welcome near populated places. Genetically altered crops have already been developed which produce greater yields and are resistent to diseases and drought.
Human knowledge may be at least keeping pace with people begetting people.
(Down the road some geneticist will find a way to insert smart genes and excise mean genes in human embryos — but will we really want to go there?)
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
Reining in banks will be another test of attitudes
A massive bill overhauling the nation’s financial regulatory system apparently will be passed this week and sent to President Barack Obama. It has been described as the most thorough-going reform of banking and financial institutions since the Great Depression.
The measure came out of the conference committee on party-line votes. Sixty votes will be required in the Senate to avoid a filibuster and possible defeat.
President Obama said the 60 votes were there, as he left for Toronto, Canada for an economic summit of the Group of 20. A spokesman said the regulatory measure would make the United States the leader in financial reform and said the president would urge other nations to take similar measures to rein in risky speculation and re-quire financial institutions to hold more capital reserves.
But most of the Republican comment to date has been negative and at least one crossover vote will be needed to pass the bill.
As Senate Republicans were willing to let unemployment benefits for more than 1,000,000 American workers and their families expire last week, it seems altogether possible that they will refuse to sign on to financial reform this week.
On the other hand, if the votes are there to give President Obama bragging rights in Toronto, and if all but one or two Republicans in the Senate vote no, as now ap-pears all but certain, then the Democratic case for November will grow stronger.
IT MAY BE true at this time — for this week, maybe this two months — that the public is angry with government and has decided to take it out on the president and his party. But the American voter is notoriously fickle and most Americans spend most of their time feeling good about themselves and their country rather than looking at the world through mud-colored glasses.
When it comes time to vote four months from now, America’s mood may have turned from pitch black to sunny.
If the economy continues to pick up. If unemployment lessens. If the news from Afghanistan shows a ray or two of hope. Then all of those no votes on health care, on unemployment aid, on bank reform, on energy independence — no after no after no — may turn voters away from the Republican Party.
When the curtain on the polling booth is pulled closed and voters must decide what attitude toward the future is most appealing, optimists may decide they like the sound of “yes, you bet we can” more than, “no, we can’t — and it would cost too much to try.”
And most Americans are optimists.
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
To a Tee
To a Tee Register/Jocelyn Sheets There’s nothing like watching kids play T-Ball. Caleb Donnell, Iola Pharmacy, is focused and ready to hit the ball off the tee during Friday night’s game in Iola T-Ball League play. |
Sonic Blast rolls to victory
SHAWNEE — The Iola Sonic Blast, an 18-and-under traveling team, won the Mid-America West Summer Smash fastpitch softball tournament over the weekend.
Sonic Blast went undefeated, winning the championship game 4-1 over Dominators. Lenzie Boring was the winning pitcher.
Taylyn Wells connected for three singles to lead Sonic Blast offensively. Breanna Kline singled and tripled. Hitting two singles each were Jenna Sigg, Megan Dillow and Bri Smedley. Callie Umholtz doubled.
The Blast had just defeated the Dominators 3-1 behind the pitching of Smedley in the winners bracket final. In that game, Smedley had two singles while Sigg tripled and Kylie Taylor doubled. Hitting a single each were Umholtz, Boring, Kelci Owens and Hannah McCall.
Sonic Blast opened the two-day tournament winning 4-1 over Macon Travelers out of Missouri 5-1 Saturday. Smedley pitched. Sigg had a two-run home run plus a single and a double.
Smedley had two singles. Umholtz doubled. Dillow and McCall each had a single.
Sonic Blast finished its pool play with an 8-0 win over KC Explosion. Boring got the pitching win. Taylor hit a single, a double and a triple and Boring had a single and a double.
Hitting a single apiece were Owens and Smedley. Sigg tripled.
Sonic drilled KC Vandals 15-1 with Smedley pitching. Leading the hitting assault were Owens with two triples and a single and Sigg with two singles and a double. Hitting a single and a double each were Dillow, Boring and Smedley. Taylor had two singles. Wells singled and McCall doubled.
Sonic Blast swiped a 1-0 win over KCK Angels to end play Saturday. Owens, who had two singles, got a hit with two gone in the fourth. She stole second then third and swiped home for the only run of the game.
Boring was the winning pitcher. Taylor had two singles. Sigg hit a triple.
Sunday’s play began with a 5-0 Blast win over Storm out of Missouri. Boring was the winning pitcher.. Taylor cranked out two doubles and Dillow had two singles.
Umholtz had a single and a double. Sigg had a base hit.
Anglers land 272 fish
Caleb Sealy was a busy boy Saturday morning.
During the 90-minute run of the 14th annual Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs (HOFNOD) fishing derby, Sealy pulled 19 fish from Craig Abbott’s pond at the north edge of town. Total weight of Sealy’s catch was 3.74 pounds. Jimmy Fry caught the largest fish, a 12.81-pound catfish, and McKenzie Schubert checked in with the smallest specimen, a sliver of a fish that barely activated the digital scales at .02 of a pound.
The event started with registration at 8 a.m. and by the time fishing started at 9:30, 142 kids were poised on the pond’s banks. An hour and a half later, they had caught 272 fish weighing 409.75 pounds, an average of a smidgen over a pound and a half each.
By categories, winners were:
2-8 years old: Brandon McKarnin, four fish, 22.66 pounds; Jake Fudge, six fish, 13.23 pounds; Trevor Patman, two fish, 9.85 pounds;
9-12 years old: Bryce Malloy, six fish, 32.28 pounds; Dalton Kerr, three fish, 19.73 pounds; Gary Lower, two fish, 19.31 pounds;
13-17 years olds: Aaron Dix, three fish, 26.24 pounds; Dylan Mayo, two fish, 20.74 pounds; Shawn Fry, two fish, 15.26 pounds.
All kids involved picked from a premium of prizes, ranging from fishing tackle to Coleman lanterns, prior to the derby’s start. At its conclusion, the young anglers feasted on a lunch of hot dogs, chips and drinks.