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 ...

Gerald “Chip” Eugene Byrd, 57, of Lone Jack, Missouri, died Wednesday, Oct. 22, at his home. The family will have a private memorial service at a later date. Chip lived in the Lone Jack area for more ...

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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Roy Dale Sturgis Sr., 63, of Blue Springs, Missouri, (formerly of Holden, Missouri) died May 10 at home surrounded by his family. Visitation services are scheduled for 4-6:30 p.m. Monday, May 15, with ...

(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, ...

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 ...

Frances Jane “Frannie” DeBacker, 79, of Warrensburg, died Monday, Nov. 19, after a brief illness. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at Sweeney-Phillips & Holdren Funeral Home ...

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, ...

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at Sweeney-Phillips and Holdren Funeral Home in Warrensburg with Pastor Dennis Doyle officiating and visitation services beginning at 1 p.m.