Local News: Ronald Ron Lee Rains (8/22/23) | Fort Scott Tribune fstribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fstribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ronald “Ron” Lee Rains, age 84, of Fort Scott, passed away peacefully Monday morning, August 14, 2023. He was born on June 18, 1939, in Chanute, Kansas to Charles Edgar
Within a half-hour drive of the University of Central Missouri, rows of neatly-placed headstones line the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Higginsville honoring individuals who served in the United States military. With only small bits of information etched into each of the hundreds of gray granite monuments that dot this vast burial ground, the life stories of many underrepresented World War II veterans mostly remain untold. This will soon change, however, thanks to a $399,000 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Cemetery Administration (NCA) grant that will also cover project work at Fort Scott National Cemetery in Fort Scott, Kansas.
Obituary: Herbert H Hickman (8/4/23) | Fort Scott Tribune fstribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fstribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Herbert H. Hickman, 94, of Pittsburg passed away Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at his home. He was born January 16, 1929, at Riverton, Kansas, to Hubert and Alice (Holt) Burnett. He was raised by his …