Stories from Thursday, September 20, 2012

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Area residents will have a chance to learn about Missouri's cultural history and about ancient rock art at a program Saturday, Sept. 29, at Van Meter State Park near Miami. The event is sponsored by Missouri State Parks, according to a news release from the state Department of Natural Resources. The free program will be held at 1 p.m. at Missouri's American Indian Cultural Center in the park. The public is invited...

Jack Steele, 81, of rural Arrow Rock, died Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, at Bothwell Regional Hospital in Sedalia. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, at Campbell-Lewis Chapel in Marshall with Rev. Jamie Page officiating. Burial with military rites will be in Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Higginsville. ...

Albert J. (Buzzy) Dillon, 71, of Napton, died Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, at Campbell-Lewis Chapel in Marshall with William W. Harlow officiating. Burial will be in Ridge Park Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to family choice and an online guestbook is available at www.campbell-lewis.com...

Hoof prints had dried into the arena floor like a ceramic design, marking the random trail of a horseback rider.

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A small framed sign reads, "Welcome to the Eleanor Butterfield Dining Room." Above it is a photograph of the woman most in the Marshall community know as "Ellie." The dining room at the newly remodeled and extend South Ranch for girls was officially dedicated to Butterfield in a ceremony Saturday, Sept. 8, with residents, BYS board members and Butterfield's former co-workers there to mark the occasion...

Ronnald E. Piper Sr., 65, of Warsaw, formerly of Marshall, died Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, at Cox Medical Center South in Springfield. Funeral arrangements are pending at Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home in Marshall.

During each summer concert season, the Marshall Municipal Band songs from "The Music Man" appear on the program now and then. And when they do, script writer Jane Huff and announcer Randy Shannon make it a point to introduce MMB Director Kevin Lines as "Marshall's Music Man."...