Obituary - Wendell Earl Teagarden

Funeral services for Wendell Earl Teagarden of Butler, Missouri will be 10 a.m. Friday, May 9, 2025 at Schowengerdt Funeral Chapel (660-679-6555) in Butler.  Visitation 5 - 7 p.m. Thursday, May 8 at the Schowengerdt Chapel.  Burial in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Ballard, Missouri.  Contributions to Mexico Missions.  Online condolences www.schowengerdtchapel.com.

Wendell Earl Teagarden, age 84 of Butler, Missouri died Sunday, May 4, 2025 at Butler Center in Butler.  He was born February 6, 1941 to Tommie Jefferson and Doris Ann Johnson Teagarden in Hume, Missouri.

Wendell is survived by his wife, Carol Teagarden of Butler, Missouri; one son, Keith Teagarden and wife Joni of Butler, Missouri; one daughter, Kerri Loyd and husband David of Butler, Missouri;  five grandchildren, Cody Loyd (Kayla), Kelsi Bergen (Micah), Kyle Teagarden (Jenna), Amanda Bagby (Trenton) and Stephanie Bamberg (Duane); ten great-grandchildren, (Jared, Bailee, Ethan and Ben Loyd), (Abby, Lily, Melody and Cooper Bergen), and (Lyandin and Sophia Bamberg);  two sisters, Wanda Patrick and husband Larry of The Villages, Florida and Annette Coe and husband Doug of Glendale, California.  Wendell  was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Roscoe in 1959.

Bates County real estate transfers and marriage licenses

Anderson, David to Thomas, Megan Lt 268 Adrian, Original Town Of+

Mclay Homes to Carlson, Pruett Lt 44 Country South

Citizens Bank Of Amsterdam to Iowa-Missouri Conference Association Of Seventh-Day Adventists Lt 2 Bl 11 Butler, Original Town Of

Sedlock, Ruthie C to Cox, Travis Lt 1 Bl 26 Town Company's First Addn

Umstattd, Dennis to Johnson, Steven Str 19-41-29 //Sw

Mendez, Manuel M Sproat, Mickeaylla C Str 21-41-33 //Nw

Nisely, Marques to Willow Creek Isl Lt 139 Adrian, Original Town Of+

Flanegan, Kenneth Mitchell to Fischer, Loren Lt 1 Bl 95 Town Company's First Addn+

Marr, Ronald W. to Marr, Ronald W. (Trustee) Str 12-40-33 //Ne

Long, Dale to Long, Larry L Str 9-41-33 //Sw

Cole, Karen J to Cole, Karen J (Trustee) Str 26-40-33 //Ne+

Cole, Karen J to Cole, Karen J (Trustee) Str 23-40-33

Wallace, Katy to Christopher, Linda Str 27-41-32 //Nw

Nelson, Lester Guy  III to Nelson, Lester Guy  III Bl 33 Walton's Second Addn+

Marriage license

Swaters, Lance Hayden James and Blair, Amy Elizabeth

Nicholas, Zachary Lane and Laver, Brianna Leigh

Jackson, Jonhenry Bruce and Hummel, Makenna Grace

Recipe of the Week

 

The Museum Minute: A lotta bottlecaps

 Courtesy of the Bates County Museum 802 Elks Drive, Butler Mo 64730 (660) 679-0134

Herrman’s Historical Happenings week of May 7

1861 The population of Bates County is 6,684. Mt Pleasant township has the most with 1,108 and Lone Oak township second with 1,004.

1896 A proposal to enlarge Hume to one mile square gets a majority vote.

1910 Butler has 30 automobiles and orders are being placed for more.

1918 W.O. Atkeson's published "History of Bates County" is for sale in all the towns in Bates County

1926 Plans are jelling for a hospital in Butler. The Commercial Club is backing Mrs. S.C. Stayton, a professional nurse, to purchase a house at 107 S. Havannah. Plans are to open June 1st.

1977 A collection of nearly 80,000 bottlecaps by Carolyn Hellwig's 6th grade class gets the attention of the Wall Street Journal and the CBS morning news.

1979 Emil E. "Mike" Schwander, Bates County Sheriff for 23 years, passes away following a lingering illness.

1982 The Lyle Norman Players present the musical comedy "The Nifty Fifties" at the Butler High School auditorium. Alan J. Mundey is director.

1999 An official ribbon cutting is held for the grand opening of the Days Inn Hotel on West 52 in Butler. It is owned and operated by the Patel family.

What's Up by LeRoy Cook

 Nobody Hurt At Delta, Part Deux

The week's flying weather was once again spotty, until the weekend brought bright skies and lots of air traffic. Practice instrument approaches, concluding in missed-approach pullups, were prevalent, and work continued at Butler airport on both the lighting system upgrade and the fuel pump replacement. Hopefully, the two projects will be finished up together; we've had no gas here for six months. 

I journeyed to Fort Scott airport to provide a checkout for a pilot taking an airplane to Wisconsin, and I stopped in at Harrisonville to visit with local flight instructor Delaney Rindal, who's been operating out of there while Butler is shut down. She participated in EAA Chapter 91's monthly open house at Lee's Summit airport on Saturday morning. Thankfully, her outside-stored airplanes escaped hail and wind damage from last week's storms passing over the area. 

In aviation news of the week, it was announced that Dynon Avionics and Trig Avionics have merged; Dynon builds “glass” display instrument systems for general aviation planes, and as part of their installations they've used Trig's radios and intercoms, now brought in-house. On the airline side, an “almost merger” cooperative arrangement is taking place between JetBlue and United Airlines; they'll share some operating systems and facilities, but not ticketing. A proposed merger of JetBlue and  American Airlines in 2023 was blocked as anti-competitive.

The U.S. Navy's Harry S Truman supercarrier, operating as part of a task force in the Red Sea, has had a bad year. An F/A-18 Super Hornet airplane was being moved on the downstairs hangar deck when the ship maneuvered to evade incoming fire, and the $60 million plane and tow tractor were dumped out the door into the sea. One of the F/A-18's was lost to the Yemeni insurgents during a strike earlier, and the big boat has had a mild fender-bender with a merchant ship as well.

Delta Airlines’ bad luck just keeps coming, it seems like. We reported on various incidents at D/A last week, but now there was a report of a ceiling coming down during a Chicago to Atlanta DC-9 flight on April 14th, an embarrassing moment requiring passengers to hold up the plastic panel until somebody provided sturdy tape to keep it in place. It's only cosmetic, but shouldn't fall down. Delta offered 10,000 free miles to those helping.

The town of Stafford, Arizona is now waiving landing fees for aircraft under 12,500 pounds takeoff weight, which used to be $2 per thousand pounds, collected by a contractor harvesting data from landing aircraft's ADS-B reporting gear. Apparently, everybody was avoiding Stafford and it was generating an unwelcoming image, so the city fathers came to their senses after eight months of billing the toll.

The weekly brain-teaser question from last time wanted to know what U.S.-fought war started 75 year ago, whose aircraft are being featured at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh this summer. That would be the Korean War, officially a “police action” that we never really won. For next week, we want to know where the little two-seat Ercoupe airplane, first marketed in 1940, got its name. You can send your answers to kochhaus1@gmail.com. 

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Obituary - Robert “Bob” Wade

Robert “Bob” Wade of Creighton, Missouri, passed away on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, at the age of 69. He was born on November 10, 1955, at Wetzel Hospital in Clinton, Missouri, to George and Dona Jo Wade.

On December 31, 1994, Bob was united in marriage to Rosemary Cobbold in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. They found joy in everything they did together, whether hunting for tractor parts throughout Missouri, finding new places to eat or sitting in a field on the tailgate watching fireflies.

A dedicated farmer and lifelong resident of Creighton, Bob graduated from Sherwood School. He found great joy in hunting, fishing, mushroom hunting and exploring nature with his beloved dogs, Duke and Duchess. While he enjoyed most sports, he looked forward to Sundays with his buddies watching Chiefs games. Above all, he cherished his family. Bob always found time for his grandchildren, nieces and nephews, whether they were cooking a meal with random ingredients, fixing something on the farm or finding trouble and trying not to get caught.

Bob was preceded in death by his parents and his brother, Charlie Wade.

He is survived by his loving wife, Rosemary Wade of the home; daughter, April (Andrew) Nourse of Harrisonville; four grandchildren, Annie, Cece, Alex, and Corina, all of Harrisonville; his brother, George (Tina) Wade Jr. of Creighton; sister, Mary (Jerry) Green of Clinton; nieces Melissa, Crystal, Stephanie, Jacqueline, and Carlie Jo; nephews Benjamin and Cody; as well as many extended family members and friends.

Bob will be remembered for his outgoing personality and dedication to family. He never met a stranger and anyone who knew Bob for more than a few minutes walked away with a funny story.

Cremation with a celebration of life service will be held 4:00 p.m. Saturday, May 10, 2025 at Heart of Life Church, Garden City, Missouri.

Visitation will be held 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Friday, May 9, 2025 at Heart of Life Church, Garden City, Missouri.

In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to Tunnel to Towers Foundation an organization that provides homes for injured service members and first responders. Donations can be made through the link or sent to Dickey Funeral Home, P.O. Box 432, Harrisonville, Missouri 64701.

Work to be done on Wright road in Butler this week

Crews will be busy doing repair work to Wright road south of highway 52 this week and should will be completed by Wednesday or so. 

Look for intermittent delays in the area.