Stories from Monday, April 28, 2014

Wesley R. Wolfe, 77, of Marshall, died Friday, April 25, 2014, at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 29, 2014, at Campbell-Lewis Chapel, with William W. Harlow officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. ...

Margaret Mary Rieth, 95, of Marshall, died Monday, April 28, 2014, at her home. Funeral arrangements are pending at Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home in Marshall.

Peter and Lorene Solomon, of Marshall, announce the engagement of their daughter, Anne Solomon, to Daniel Malherbe, son of Lizette and Wessel Malherbe, of Cape Town, South Africa. The future bride is a 1999 graduate of Marshall High School. She attended the University of Missouri-Columbia and graduated in 2004. She is currently employed as a sonographer with the University of Kansas Medical Center...

Kevin Lee Hilbrenner, 56, of Carrollton, died Friday, April 25, 2014, at University Hospital in Columbia. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Monday, April 28, 2014, at Bittiker Funeral Home in Carrollton, with the Rev. Bill Koch officiating. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery in Carrollton. ...

Estel Allen Evans, 66, of rural Sweet Springs, died Saturday, April 26, 2014, at his home. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2014, at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Emma, with Pastor Jacob Mueller officiating. Visitation will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. ...

Owls finish 11th among 21 teams

Diamond Round-up: Valley BB-SB, Santa Fe SB

All four MHS entries medal

Glenda S. Beaman, 62, died Friday, April 25, 2014. Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, 2014, in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Thayer. Arrangements are under the direction of Meisenheimer Funeral Home in Pilot Grove. Born April 27, 1951, in Thayer, she was the daughter of Jessie and Ruby Courtwright Johnson. On May 19, 1969, in Texas, she married David Beaman, who survives of the home...

Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) qualifying drought conditions The Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) covers grazing losses for covered livestock on land that is native or improved pasture with a permanent vegetative cover, or is planted specifically for grazing...

Missouri Valley Community Action Agency is hosting Supportive Services for Veteran Families Toiletry Drive from April 20 through May 31. Missouri veterans need support in meeting everyday needs. Items needed include: toilet paper, shampoo and conditioner, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, body soap, disposable razors, feminine hygiene products, shaving cream, baby wipes, chapstick, etc...

The 1st Saturday Lecture series sponsored by the Friends of Arrow Rock, Inc., continues at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Arrow Rock State Historic Site Visitor Center. Kathryn Red Corn, director of the Osage Tribal Museum in Pawhuska, Okla., will be a featured presenter sharing her perspectives on Osage history and culture and what it means to be Osage in modern America. ...

The Missouri Masonic Children's Foundation and Marshall Public School District are sponsoring a Missouri Children's Identification Program, MOCHIP, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Marshall High School commons. Ed Harper, the event coordinator, said the event is listed to go from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., but they will stay until all the children who show up have gone through the program...

May is Hepatitis Awareness Month, which is aimed at educating the public about the dangers of hepatitis and how to prevent it. Hepatitis is a condition caused by inflammation of the liver and characterized by inflammatory cells in the tissue of the infected organ. Hepatitis can either last up to six months or be chronic and last longer...

Disaster payments for grazing livestock producers are on the way. Farmers, with weather losses back to 2011 can sign up at FSA offices now. Times were tough for Missouri livestock farmers in 2012, the worst drought in decades. Pastures and hay fields dried up. Feed prices shot up. Worse, federal disaster programs for such times expired earlier...