Marshall Democrat-News: : Mt. Leonard

Mt. Leonard

Willie D. Hardy (10/30/09)
Willie D. "Bill" Hardy, 64, of Mt. Leonard, died Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, at The Living Center in Marshall. Graveside services with military rites will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at Malta Bend Cemetery, with Rev. Robert Sisney officiating...

Farmers take initiative to fix risky intersection on state Highway 127 (04/07/09)
Instead of waiting for a traffic accident to spur action, a group of Malta Bend farmers volunteered their time and equipment recently to fix a hazardous intersection on state Highway 127 north of Mount Leonard. In January, the group started cutting through red tape and paperwork, and on Tuesday, March 31, nine farmers armed with four tractors, a bulldozer, a trackhoe, a rubber-tired hoe and various dirt-moving implements worked together to peel back the bank, extend the road and fill in the old road entrance of County Road 424.. ...

Arvilla Lucille Ward (11/18/08)
Arvilla Lucille Ward, 59, of Mount Leonard, died Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, at 3:10 a.m. in her home. Memorial services were held Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008, at Mount Leonard Baptist Church, with Rev. George Mayo officiating. Graveside services will be held at a later date...

Msgr. Robert Emmett Summers (10/06/08)
Msgr. Robert Emmett Summers passed away on October 3, 2008, at the Little Sisters of the Poor, where he has resided since 1999. Monsignor was born on February 2, 1923, in Mt. Leonard, MO, to Francis and Bridget Barr Summers. He attended Conception Seminary in Conception, MO, and was ordained on May 31, 1952. He celebrated his first solemn Mass at the Immaculate Conception Church in his home parish in Shackelford, MO, on June 1, 1952...

Malta Bend man accused of beating dog to death (08/25/08)
Christopher L. Stover, 32, of Malta Bend, was arrested late Saturday afternoon, Aug. 23, for the class A misdemeanor of animal abuse. Stover was charged with killing a three-month-old Labrador puppy belonging to the family of Douglas A. Greathouse of Slater by striking it several times with a hammer and a wooden board, then running it over several times with a pickup truck and finally discarding the still-living puppy in a culvert along County Road 128...

April election/Courthouse renovation tax gets nod from voters (04/09/08)
Editor's note: All vote totals below are unofficial preliminary tallies as of 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 9. The 1/4-cent sales tax to finance a major renovation of the Saline County Courthouse won handily in the local election Tuesday, April 8...