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Emmett Blake Guffey
Lindsay and Blake Guffey of Overland Park, Kansas, are the parents of a baby boy, Emmett Blake Guffey, born Sept. 18, 2017, at St. Luke’s South Hospital in Overland Park. He weighed 7 pounds 5.9 ounces and was 20.5 inches long.
Grandparents are Bob and Debra Guffey of Gaines-ville and Mike and Vi...
Bailey Wyatt Hobbs
Jonah and Jessica Hobbs of West Plains are the parents of a baby boy, Bailey Wyatt, born Sept. 8, 2017, at Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains. He weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces and was 20 inches long.
His siblings are Izabella, 7; Harvey, 2; and Matthew, 1.
Grandparents are Burton Bailey Jr. and...
Regina Friend Kirk, 48
Memorial services are pending for Regina Ethel Friend Kirk, 48, of Rogersville, who died Oct. 16, 2017, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield.
She was born Nov. 21, 1968, in Loogootee, Indiana, the daughter of Ed and Ina Russell Friend.
Arrangements are being handled by Clinkingbeard Funeral Home,...
James Roy Sallee, 72
Graveside services for James Roy Sallee, 72, of Ava, formerly of Thornfield, were conducted Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, at Thorn-field Cemetery on Highway 95 at Thornfield. Mr. Sallee died Oct. 13 with his family by his side at the Ava Place Residential Care Center, where he had lived for almost two...
Wendell M. Jones, 78
A casual, come-and-go gathering to celebrate the life of Wendell M. Jones, 78, of Kissee Mills, will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017, at the Ozark home of his daughter, April Phillips. (Call 417-546-1508 for directions.) Mr. Jones died Oct. 9 at Cox Hospital in Branson after a...
Russell Kirk Robinson, 66
Russell Kirk Robinson, 66, of Tecumseh, died Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017, at his home due to a heart attack. No local services are planned.
He was born April 10, 1951, in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, the son of Henry and Mary Robinson. He grew up in Prestonsburg, and during his lifetime he also lived in...
Dixie Jean Adair, 86
Funeral services for Dixie Jean Adair, 86, of Rose Hill, Kansas, were held Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, at University Congre-gational Church in Wichita, Kansas. Mrs. Adair died Oct. 12.
She was born July 4, 1931, in Elijah, the daughter of O.S. and Tessie Bertram. She graduated from Gainesville High...
This photo of renowned mule trader Ferd Owen, an Ozark County native, is reprinted from the Jan. 26, 1948, edition of Life magazine, recently shared with the Times by Paul Rose. The magazine said that Owen, pictured here with a “cotton” mule, had “bought and sold as many as 100,000 horses and mules in a year.” Even more amazing, he was famous for being able to recognize and name the price of any mule he had ever bought or sold through the years. He was related to the Ozark County Amyxes. A 1955 item in this week’s Times Past collection reports his death at his home near Belton. His former 2,100 ranch there has been developed into a planned community in the Kansas City suburbs where Times Past columnist Mary Ruth Luna Sparks and her husband, Mike, make their home.
Ozark County Times
Oct. 20, 1911
Nottinghill – F. H. Cantwell sold his cattle and is going into the sheep business. He says he is not afraid of the wolves now as Mr. Grudier and Mr. Williams make frequent trips over here with their hounds and have killed several wolves.
Landon Gaulding is having a...
Guy Howard, who became known as the Walkin’ Preacher of the Ozarks, is shown in this photo reprinted from the Dec. 25, 1944, edition of Life magazine. Howard is pictured with Lena Clayton (Mrs. Roy) Brown, 17, as she does laundry outside her Turkey Creek cabin in Ozark County. Howard told a reporter for the Springfield News-Leader that he walked about 3,300 miles in a year to preach in churches and schools around the Ozarks. An Oct. 15, 1942, item in this week’s Times Past reports that he had begun a two-week revival in Gainesville.
Ozark County News
Oct. 10, 1895
A subscription is now in circulation for the purpose of raising money to purchase the 40-acre tract of land that the Gainesville Cemetery is located on. This is government land. Every-body in and around Gaines-ville is either directly or indirectly interested in...
Funeral services for Rosa Lee Ryan, 81, of West Plains, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home in West Plains. Mrs. Ryan died Oct. 5 at West Vue Nursing Center in West Plains.
She was born Oct. 5, 1936, in Howell County, the daughter of Clyde and Elsie Gunner...