Friday, April 23, 2021
Buddy Joe Amos, 83, passed away on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at Mercy Hospital in Cassville, Mo.
Bud was born April 20, 1938, to Hobart and Beulah Jean (Coons) Amos in Purdy, Mo., where he attended school and graduated in 1956.
He married Dortha Ann Perkins on January 24, 1959, in Cassville, Mo. They moved to Richmond, Mo., in 1960 where Bud worked at the Ford Plant in Claycomo, Mo. He later joined American Family Insurance where he worked as an insurance agent for 43 years until he retired in 2004.
Bud and Dortha moved to Excelsior Springs, Mo., in 1963 where they raised three children, Ricky Gene, Janett Lea and Allen Del. After his retirement, Bud and Dortha moved back to their farm in Purdy, Mo where Bud raised cattle. The Amos farm has been in the family for three generations. Bud enjoyed farming, attending farm sales and auctions and was a lifelong KC Royals and KC Chiefs fan. He loved spending time with friends and no matter where he lived he enjo
(STEVE ARSTAD / iNFOnews.ca) March 14, 2021 - 8:00 AM High on a mountainside near Rossland lies the wreckage of a Second World War bomber that met its end on an early winter October morning while on its way to Penticton. The crash claimed the lives of two Penticton civilians and seven Royal Canadian Air Force servicemen who were familiar faces in the Peach City in the late 1940s. The Mitchell aircraft crashed 13 miles northwest of Rossland in 1947. It made headlines in the Okanagan twice – when it disappeared from radio contact on Oct. 18, 1947, and again in Oct. 1952, when the plane’s wreckage was discovered by a Kootenay hunter.