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 ...

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, March 23, at Sweeney-Phillips and Holdren Funeral Home in Warrensburg, with Pastor Bill LaMora and Pastor Margaret Banks officiating. Visitation ...

(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 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Warrensburg with Father Joseph Miller, C.PP.S, officiating. Pallbearers will be Matthew Robinson, Tyler ...

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, at St. Marks United Methodist Church, 603 N. Jennings Road, Independence, Mo., with the Rev. Paula Smith ...

Scott Edward Allen, 48, of Holden, Mo., died Wednesday, April 16, at his residence. Scott was born Nov. 15, 1965, in Independence, Mo. He graduated from Holden High School. Shortly after, he attended ...

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, at the Sweeney-Phillips & Holdren Funeral Home in Warrensburg with the Rev. Richard Litle officiating. Burial will follow at the Sunset Hill ...

Graveside services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at Knob Noster Cemetery with Pastor Robert Denham officiating. Pallbearers will be Brandon Harrison, Russell Harrison, Christopher ...

Gary Lee Amiott, 63, of Warrensburg, died Tuesday, Jan. 29. Memorial services will be held at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, at Sweeney-Phillips and Holdren Funeral Home in Warrensburg. The family will ...

(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, ...

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 ...

Gay was born Feb. 7, 1957, in Sewickley, Pa., the daughter of Ernest O. and Arla (Bailey) Furman. She graduated from Emporium Junior-Senior High School in Emporium, Pa. She moved to Warrensburg in ...