Obituary - Donna Jaunita Newton

Donna Jaunita Newton, 72, passed away on Thursday, May 27, 2021 at her home in Nevada, MO following a brief illness. Donna was born September 22, 1948 in Kansas City, MO to William C. and Lottie I. (McGuire) Puckett. She was united in marriage to Albert F. Newton on May 28, 1967 in Miami, OK and he preceded her in death in 2010.

Donna was raised on a farm in Nevada. She worked in housekeeping at the Nevada State Hospital for a number of years until her retirement due to a disability. She was currently attending the Cowboy Church in Nevada.

Donna was a loving mother and grandmother who enjoyed being with her family, especially her children and grandchildren.

Survivors include one daughter, Tammy Johnson (David), Nevada; one son, William Newton, Jefferson City, MO; seven grandchildren, Cody Johnson, Sylvia Matson, Michael Bolan, Chelsey Johnson, Kendall Butler, Kenzie Newton, and Lucas Johnson; six great-grandchildren; one brother, George Puckett, Nevada; numerous nieces and nephews. In addition to her husband Albert, she was preceded in death by an infant son, Carl; two brothers, and four sisters.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada with Pastor Roger Beach officiating. Interment will follow in Newton Burial Park in Nevada. Friends may call at Ferry Funeral Home from 9-3:00 on Saturday, May 29th and from 12-3:00 on Sunday, May 30th.

Memorials are suggested to the Family in c/o Ferry Funeral Home.

Obituary - Homer Baldwin, Jr.

Homer Baldwin, Jr., 83, Harrisonville, MO, passed away Thursday, May 27, 2021 at Cass Regional Medical Center in Harrisonville.

Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, June 3, 2021 at the Atkinson Funeral Home in Harrisonville with visitation from 12:00-1:00 p.m. Burial will be held in Paola City Cemetery in Paola, KS.

A complete obituary will be posted when it is available.

Obituary - Gale Carothers Lawrence

Gale Carothers Lawrence, 64 of Adrian, Missouri passed away May 17, 2021 at Bates County Memorial Hospital in Butler, Missouri. Cremation with private family memorial services. 

Arrangements entrusted to Mullinax Funeral Home, Butler (660-679-0009). Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.mullinaxfuneralhome.com

Gale Diane Carothers Lawrence was born July 7, 1956 in Chicago, IL. to John “Bob” Robert and Patricia Ann Timberlake Carothers.

Gale was preceded in death by her parents, and son Daniel Henderson. She is survived by her son Robert Henderson of Butler, MO., daughter Kristina Henderson Whitesell and husband Randall, grandsons, Jon Lawrence, Dakota Whitesell, and Taylor Whitesell all of Eudora, Kansas.

From the desk of Missouri Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler

I was honored to partake in two tremendous rural broadband announcements which is welcome news in Missouri.

In Butler, I spoke at an event where Osage Valley Electric Cooperative unveiled their partnership with internet service provider Conexon Connect. They will invest $75 million in a world-class fiber-to-the-home network and give access to gigabit-speed broadband internet for our rural communities. Thanks to this effort, more than 16,000 homes and businesses in Cass, Bates, Henry, Saint Clair, Johnson, Benton, and Vernon counties will have access to increased internet speeds starting at the end of 2021 with the total project taking five years to complete.

I was also in El Dorado Springs as the Sac Osage Electric Coop announced similar plans with Conexon Connect. Through their $52 million investment, 8,700 homes and businesses in Henry, Benton, Saint Clair, Hickory, Vernon, Cedar, Barton, Polk, and Dade counties will be upgraded with fiber-to-the-home network and gigabit-speed broadband internet by the beginning of 2022 with the total project taking four years to finish.

With nearly 20 percent of rural Missourians still lacking vital access to high speed internet, I am glad to see our state is receiving much-needed improvements for our families, neighbors, and rural businesses.

Courtesy of Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler

Learn more about the project by using the link below:

https://www.midamericalive.com/2021/05/broadband-internet-to-be-available-to.html

Obituary - Shirley Jane Powell

Shirley Jane Powell, 91, of Pleasant Hill, Missouri, was born, September 11, 1929, in Watkins Glenn, New York, the daughter of Karl Edward and Velda Beatrice (Watson) Hand. She departed this life Monday May 24, 2021, at the Foxwood Springs Skilled Nursing Center.

Shirley was a 1948 graduate of the Interlaken High School in Watkins Glenn.

In February 1954 she was united in marriage to Robert E. “Bob” Woolery in Lake Charles, Louisiana; they later divorced. On October 31, 1992, she was united in marriage to John E. Powell in Lee’s Summit, Missouri; he preceded her in death on May 10, 2009.

Shirley was employed in Accounts Payable for the GSA at the Richards Gebaur Air Force Base in Grandview, and was the Bookkeeper for the Woolery Masonry Company. She was an active supporter of various veteran groups. She enjoyed dancing, doing macrame, and playing computer solitaire. She was especially fond of her dogs.

Shirley was also preceded in death by her parents.

She is survived by her three children, Dale (and Sally) Woolery of Ankeny, Iowa, Jay Woolery, and Jill (and Chuck) Parker, both of Pleasant Hill; six grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; other relatives and friends.

Cremation has been accorded.

Graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 1, 2021, in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Reverend Clifford Woolery will officiate.

Memorial contributions are suggested to the Pleasant Hill Animal Shelter and may be sent in care of the funeral home.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.stanleydickeyfuneralhome.com

Arrangements: Stanley-Dickey Funeral Home, 203 N. Armstrong St., Pleasant Hill, Missouri 64080 (816) 540-5550.

The Museum Minute: Old Settlers Reunion organized

Museum Minute
May 27, 2021

Museum Minute Presents:  This Week in History (According to Herrman’s Archives)

Last Week of May in the Year….

1886 – Professor John Mahler, who last summer taught a class in etiquette, opens a class for dancing and etiquette, at the Walton Opera House, Butler.
1926 – Workmen begin laying concrete slab, for U.S. 71 Highway, from Butler to finish this part at the Vernon Co. line.
1942 – The Bates Co Defense Council holds a meeting to set up air raid warden units all around the county.
1815 – The government mill, owned and operated by Pierre Chouteau, on land owned by Colonel Anselin Halley, closes. (along the Osage River – near Halley’s Bluff)
1915 – “The Christian,” a master piece of 500 scenes, 3000 people, on 8 reels of film, in Adrian.  Matinee 10 cents, evening 10 and 15 cents. 
1874 – The Second Annual Bates Co Horse Fair opens for a three day stand with their new ½ mile track.  East of Butler.
1883 – The African Methodist Church is organized in Butler.
1882 – G. W. Mann, the Rich Hill cigar manufacturer, is distributing his new line of the stogies.
1897 – A large crowd is in the courtroom in the Bates Co. Courthouse to organize an ‘old settlers reunion.’  L. B. Allison, a teacher in the old Butler Academy presides, and Calvin Boxleyacts as secretary.  A committee of John Newberry, Clark Wix, O. D. Austin, and Henry Moudy, are to meet on July 17th to complete the organization for the reunion, which will be on September 25th.
1915 – Reports are the river north of Rich Hill is out of its banks, flooding some 3 miles each way from the road.  It still is 2 feet from the high mark in 1909.
1895 – The Rich Hill City Council passes Ordinance # 259 outlawing the manufacture, sale, or use of cigarettes in town.
1858 – The Papinville Masonic Lodge, Osage Lodge #29 is organized and will meet in the second floor of the schoolhouse.
1948 – The foundation is laid for the American Legion Building in Rich Hill.
1884 – At the completion of Decoration Day programs, in Butler, the ex-Confederates convene in the Bates Co. Courthouse and form an association.  Pierce Hackett is chairman.
1841 – Missouri State Legislature approves a law establishing a state road from Independence to Batesville (Papinville). (Bates County was established in 1841)
1866 – Some light fingered gentry visits the bedroom of George Todd and takes $165 from Todd’s pocketbook, at the foot of the bed where he is sleeping.  Butler.
1876 – Catron & Day, tombstone men of Warrensburg, announce they are opening a store in Butler and Mr. Day will move to Butler and run the shop.
1874 – Butlerites are upset with the fair board for hiring a Clinton Band for the shores show at $130, when the Butler Band only asked for $85.

Semi truck accident in Cass County

On May 27th around 2:00p.m. the Missouri State Highway Patrol in Cass County along with Cass County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a semi truck accident on Missouri 7 Highway at Chandler Road in rural Cass County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the accident occurred when the 2018 Freightliner driven by 58 year old Arnold R. Miller of Greely, Colorado traveled off the right side of the roadway and struck a ditch.

Mr. Miller sustained minor injuries and he was transported by ambulance to Cass Regional Medical Center for treatment.

The semi was towed by J's Southland Tow. 

Obituary - Evelyn Ann (Greenwell) Pendleton

Evelyn Ann (Greenwell) Pendleton of Garden City, Missouri was born January 9, 1935, the daughter of Donald Edward Greenwell, Sr. and Goldie Buelah (Simpson) Greenwell of Moneqaw Springs, Missouri. Evelyn departed this life on Thursday, May 27, 2021 at the home of her daughter, Karen Ann (Pendleton) Potocnik in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.

Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother Donald E. Greenwell, Jr. on October 4, 2020 and her son Daniel Pendleton on June 22, 2012.

Evelyn was survived by her brothers; Edward Greenwell and wife Barbara of Tuscon, Arizona, Kenneth Greenwell of New Mexico, and Derl Keefer and wife Karen of Three Rivers, Michigan, and sister-in-law Marsha Greenwell of Overland Park, Kansas.

Evelyn graduated from Belton High School in 1954 where she was the drum majorette, and head cheerleader.

On July 16, 1954 Evelyn was untied in marriage to Charles E. Pendleton of Spring Garden, Missouri at the Baptist Church in Belton, Missouri wearing a wedding dress from Harzfeld’s with a 21inch waist. This union of souls produced 4 sons and a daughter: Jimmy Pendleton and wife Lori of Imperial Beach, California, Larry Pendleton and wife Mary of Chesapeake, Virginia, Daniel Pendleton (Deceased) and wife Tammy of Raymore, Missouri, Gerald Pendleton and wife Susan of Los Lunas, New Mexico, and Karen Ann (Pendleton) Potocnik and husband Jerry of Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Grandchildren are; Jim, Lee, Jessica, Melissa, Samantha, Nikia, Amanda, Jason, Lauren, Roxanne, Rebecca, Alan, Hannah, Raechel, Mindy, Shawn, Keith, Kiowa, Kurt, Erik, Austin, Macee and Micala; Great-grandchildren are; Emily, Patrick, Erik, Thaalia, Ahlyssa May, Lilah, Alyssa, Kayden, Noah, Cash, Ashton, Layla, Abrianna, Thomas, Nicholas, Chase, Tristan, Fiona, Shawn, October, Adelae, Epha, Caroline, Vivienne, Whit, Chloe, Jackson, and two babies TBA.
Evelyn was a member of the United Methodist Church of Garden City, The Eastern Star where she served as a star point Electa for several years, the American Legion Auxiliary, United Methodist Women and the 54th. Club.

Evelyn was a seamstress and a homemaker.

Evelyn and Charles moved to the area on a farm in Creighton, MO and then a second farm in Garden City, MO before finding their home in town in Garden City, MO where they had been for 50 years, before Charles passed and Evelyn moved in with her daughter in Lee’s Summit where she passed at 86 years old.

Evelyn worked at the Garden City sewing factory in 1973 until it closed. Evelyn then went to work at the Holden sewing factory for a few years. Evelyn then worked at Golden Years retirement home as a housekeeper and a cook.

Evelyn and Charles loved to camp. Almost every weekend they would go camping at the strip pits, Montrose, Lake Paradise and Truman Lake.

Two words describe my mother, powerful tornado. The amount of work that woman did on a daily basis was extraordinary. On the farm she worked an acre garden. Evelyn weeded, harvested, canned and pickled everything it produced to feed us in the winter months as well as the summer months. She did laundry on an old wringer wash machine, and hung the clothes on the line to dry, even in the winter time. She ironed everything. Evelyn would sprinkle the clothes down with liquid starch and roll them up and place them in a laundry basket until she could get to them later that day. Evelyn cooked full home cooked meals every meal, and every meal was on time when my dad walked in the door so he could get out to the farm work after working a full day at Bendix. Mom dressed chickens, gathered eggs, scraped off the cream from the cows milk and made butter in the butter churn on a regular basis. She washed dishes by hand, kept a very clean house and sewed clothes for me to wear, but every day she would take time out in the afternoon to sit down and read me a book. It was our time. When we moved to town, Mom took me to twirling lessons, even to Midway. She did not like to drive but she did it for me. A very selfless person.

Evelyn and Charles took great pride in their home, yard and garden. One of the best kept in town. Charles and Evelyn were generous with their time volunteering, helping with Church, vacation bible school, and Evelyn was always baking for someone or something that needed a pie, cake, cookies or their famous ice cream. At Christmas they would make divinity and pecan brittle and pass out as much as they could to friends and family. They bought 25 bushel of apples every year and passed them out. It was their way of showing they cared about you. My parents cared a lot about the town they lived in and the people who lived there. They gave money to the preacher to help someone who needed it. Never wanting anyone to know it came from them. They were selfless and proud to be residents of Garden City.

Evelyn will be laid to rest next to her husband Charles in the Garden City Cemetery.

Funeral Services will be held Saturday, June 5, 20212 at the United Methodist Church, Garden City, Missouri at 10:30 a.m.

The family request that mask are to be worn and to try to practice social distancing while attending the services.

Services will be live streamed on The Garden City Methodist Church facebook page on the day of the services starting live at 10:30 a.m.