Structure Fire in Butler

Butler Fire and Butler Police is on scene of a Structure fire caused by a lightning strike. This is located at 409 W Clark in Butler. There is smoke filling a residents. Bates County Live will update then when more information is available.

Grass Fire West of Foster

Bates County Sheriff and Foster Fire is in route to a reported grass fire located Just East of V Highway on DD Highway West of Foster. This fire is along the highway and there no houses around.

Dogs Found.

Found: 2 yellow lab pups, 8-10 wks old very well cared for, found at intersection of Ft. Scott & Thompson in Butler  816-783-3116

Relay for Life 2013

Carol Ann Winburn and Betty Lewis of Butler are the corporate sponsor Co-Chair persons for the June,  Relay for Life, American Cancer Society Fund Raising Event.  

Letters have been sent to corporate sponsors that will “ Jump Start” the 2013 fund raising endeavor. Corporate sponsor  contributions create local programs to provide nutritional supplements, patient travel services, the Look Good Feel Better Program, support programs, wigs and prosthetic devices.

Sponsorship forms have been mailed and should be returned no later than April 25th.

Relay will continue its new daytime format at the 2013 Relay for Life that will be held June 1^st. The event will be held on the Bates County Fairgrounds in Butler.

This year’s theme will be “ Blast Cancer into Space”. More information and a schedule of events will be announced and posted on the 921kmoe.com website as the event date draws closer.

For now… your sponsorship will be appreciated and all fund will be used for those fighting cancer.

To contact Carol Ann or Betty … call 660-679-5696 or 660-679-5389. 

Courtesy of FM. 92

STEPHANIE LEWIS BENEFIT DINNER

The Nazarene Church will host a Lasagna Benefit dinner for Stephanie Lewis on Thursday April 11^th…. $8.00 per person. All proceeds will help with medical expenses and gas money during her fight against breast cancer… Dinner will be served from 5 to 7 pm at the Nazarene Church on Nursery Street in Butler.







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Ballard Spring Dinner Theater

Obituary - Opal Lee Summers

Opal Lee Summers, 86, Harrisonville, Missouri, died Monday, April 8, 2013 at Golden Years Care Center in Harrisonville. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, April 13, 2013 at the Atkinson Funeral Home in Harrisonville with burial in Crescent Hill Cemetery in Adrian. Visitation will be from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Obituary - Wanda Faye Phillips

Wanda Faye (McGee) Phillips, 90, Leawood, Ks. passed away April 7, 2013. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, April 11 at Keystone United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Missouri, with visitation from 1:00-2:00 p.m. at the church. Burial will be in Orient Cemetery, Harrisonville. Memorial contributions may be made to The Keith Worthington Chapter of ALS Association.

Faith and family was important to Wanda Faye (McGee) Phillips, born August 13, 1922 to Christopher (Roy) and Katie (Van Camp) McGee in Johnson County, Missouri. When she was two years old, the family moved to her grandparent’s family farm in Cass county, near Harrisonville, Missouri. She was a middle child—a sister between two brothers—Lawrence McGee and George McGee. She attended First Baptist Church in Harrisonville where she professed her faith and was baptized at the age of 16. After graduation from Harrisonville High School, Wanda went to secretarial school in Kansas City and made that city her home. She worked for the Pratt-Whitney Defense Plant during WWII. She married H. D. Phillips in 1943 and lived in Macon, Georgia where he was stationed in the Army.

Many changes came about following the end of WWII which touched Wanda’s life. Her parents made a move from the family farm in Harrisonville to Belton, Missouri where her dad turned to carpenter work Though life in town offered more conveniences to her parents, her mother became ill and died at the age of 51. By this time her husband, who was in the European War Theatre in the Army, and her two brothers, away in the Navy, had returned. However, the reunion was short lived when her younger brother was killed in a plane crash as part of his Navy Air Reserve duty in 1948 as he was returning to Columbia, Missouri where he attended the University of Missouri.

As a mother, Wanda enjoyed being a homemaker for her two children. She was active in the PTA and became a Cub Scout Leader. She loved to sew, making many of her daughter’s dresses and then quilts for her children and grandchildren. She enjoyed a close relationship with her cousins and looked forward to picnic reunions with the Van Camps each summer. She was dedicated to the Methodist Church and taught Sunday school when her children were little. More recently she was a member of the Broadway Methodist Church in the Waldo area.

My mother was a resilient member of the Greatest Generation. She brought her own zest for life and faith for the unknown. She loved to tell stories of her life as a child on the farm; I’m sure so as not to forget the cherished time when her family was together. She endured not only the tragedy of WWII, but the tragedy of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in her later years. Like the young soldiers before her, she fought the good fight. She was loved and she will be missed.

She is survived by her daughter, Cheryl McIntosh and husband, Ted, and their son, Martin E. Phillips and wife, Susan Sullivan; three grandsons, Phillip Hof and wife, Deidre, Nathan Hof and fiancée, Kelly Murphy and Jonathan Hof and wife, Johanna; one great-granddaughter, Luciana Hof, as well as a niece, Lou Anne Carder and family in Upland, California.