She was born Nov. 18, 1922, in San Jose, California, the daughter of Earl Bruce and Edna Mae (Varner) Bobo. She was united in marriage to Hugh Proctor Drake on March 17, 1940, in Las Vegas. He ...

Troy E. Holbrook, 55, of Knob Noster, Missouri, died Monday, Nov. 14, at St. Luke’s Medical Center. Troy is survived by his wife, Pam, of Knob Noster; two daughters, Ashley and JJ Holbrook, of Kansas ...

Donald Eugene Burford, 88, of Leeton, Missouri, died Thursday, Nov. 26, at his home. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1, at Sweeney-Phillips & Holdren Funeral Home in Warrensburg.

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Carol Gene DesCombes, 75, of Leeton, Missouri, died Friday, June 16, at Ridge Crest Nursing Center in Warrensburg, Missouri. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday June 21, at ...

Richard Grant Riggins, 92, of Barnett, Missouri, formerly of Warrensburg, died Monday, May 25, at Miller County Care and Rehabilitation Center in Tuscumbia. Richard was born Jan. 31, 1923, in ...

(WARRENSBURG, Mo., AP) — Bill James, former publisher of The Daily Star-Journal in Warrensburg and a member of the Missouri Press Association Hall of Fame, has died. He was 65. The newspaper’s editor, ...

Phillip Leroy Brillhart, 56, of Holden, Missouri, died Friday Feb. 2, at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri. Visitation will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, at Forward Community Church, 298 SW ...

He was born July 20, 1931, in Troup, Texas, the son of Paul David and Frances Hixon Jones. He married Nancy Dale Torrance on June 6, 1953, at the University Methodist Church in Austin, Texas. The ...

(AMHERST, Mass., AP) — James Tate, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and longtime English professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, has died. He was 71. He died Wednesday after a long illness, ...

David Michael Kraisinger, 62, of Knob Noster, Missouri, died Friday, May 20, at his home. David was born to Vernon and Valda Kraisinger on July 12,1953, at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. He ...