Hazel Economides, 65, Olathe, a former resident of Colony died Sept. 20, 2012 at Good Samaritan Nursing Center, Olathe.
Funeral services are Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church in Olathe.
Graveside services are 2:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon at the Colony Cemetery.
Allen Community College’s Red Devil women couldn’t break through against NJCAA top-ranked Hutchinson here Saturday.
The Red Devils lost 5-0 in the Blue Dragons in Jayhawk Conference soccer action. Allen County’s Rebekah Zellars had 15 saves playing in goal.
Above is Gene Weatherbie shooting at an exotic animal decoy while his dog Mossy watches from behind. Friends and family showed up at the Weatherbie residence Saturday for some healthy competition. Gene and his wife Theresa put on the annual hay maze, but when the grounds aren’t being used on a scary October evening they become a 3D archery course. The course has 18 targets. Scoring a 180 would be the equivalent of making par in golf. And as with golf, the goal of the game is to score as low as possible. Decoys are as far as 58 yards away.
Samuel Taze “Sam” Morris, 20, Augusta, passed away Sept. 8, 2012.
He is survived by his parents, John and Sara, sister, Abigail, all of Augusta; grandmothers Elaine Brown, Iola, Karole Morris, Wichita; and many aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and beloved pets.
Those who knew Sam well will forever miss his warmth, generosity, sense of humor and his way with words.
Come join family and friends in a celebration of his life, to share memories and thoughts at an informal memorial service at 2 p.m. Sunday at Robert Shryock Park next to the Augusta City Lake.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice or to help defray unexpected medical bills at www.wepay.com/donations/helping-the-morris-family.
Kenneth Lee Van Hoozer, 84, husband of Blanche and father of L.D. and Guyla, died Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, in Yates Center.
Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Campbell Funeral Home, Yates Center. No formal visitation is planned.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions are suggested to the Yates Center Senior Center and may be sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 188, Yates Center, KS 66783.
To the editor:
Each time I see the Allen County commissioners want to remove the Iola ambulances from the Iola Fire Department it gets me very upset. I am a widow of a fireman who spent 18 years of his life as a fireman and EMT, which they were called then.
I do NOT think that someone from Humboldt or another town should be trying to take it away from the Iola Fire Department. You have your own ambulance right in Humboldt. I know the county has its in Iola, too. However, they make runs to Wichita, Topeka, and wherever a patient needs to go to a larger hospital.
The Iola Fire Department does NOT take its ambulances out of town. I feel much safer knowing they are in town and will be right to my house within minutes. I know because they picked me up when I fell and broke by ankle and were right by my side in a matter of minutes. We also need to keep a full-time fire department. Iola is a large enough town that we can NOT have just a volunteer one.
When the Iola Fire Department firemen was the only ones in town who drove the ambulances we did not have to have several buildings to keep all the vehicles, etc. that the county now has. I am sure that all that upkeep is quite expensive.
Thank you for letting me say what I think.
Everyone has a right to their thoughts, too.
Lavon R. Johnson,
Iola, Kan.
American men and women who dropped out before graduating from high school are losing years of life expectancy, researchers have discovered.
They don’t know why. Those with a college degree or more are living longer. The population as a whole keeps gaining a year or two of life. But the under-educated are dying earlier. The sharpest drop was found in white women. They seemed to have lost five years of life between 1990 and 2008 — a relatively short period and a shocking step backward in life expectancy.
The research into causes has yet to be done, so public health experts are guessing. Women without a high school diploma tend to smoke more. They are more likely to be overweight. Because their group tends to be poorer than the general population, they are less likely to have health insurance.
Comparative genetic studies have not been made.
A deeper look into the studies shows that the comparison between white women without a high school diploma and those with a college degree or more is even more dramatic: 73.5 years of life in comparison to 83.9 years. White men who dropped out have a life expectancy of 67.5 years in comparison to 80.4 years for a man with a college degree or better.
In comparisons with other nations, U.S. women fell to 41st place in the United Nations rankings, down from 14th place in 1985. Among developed countries, American women sank from the middle of the pack in 1970 to last place in 2010, according to the Human Mortality Database.
Studies at Harvard, the University of Colorado, the American Cancer Society, the MacArthur Foundation and other institutions produced similar facts.
IT IS EASY to see why the U.S. suffers in comparison with other developed countries in life expectancy. The United States is the only rich country in the world without a universal health care system. Poor men and women without health insurance in the U.S. are also without adequate health care.
But there is more to these tragic numbers than that.
Perhaps the greatest failure of our political and social structure is that it has produced a large underclass. There are far too many Americans without adequate housing; without an education; without decent clothing or a healthy diet; without a full time job; without prospects for a good life.
When sociologists and public health experts complete their studies and learn why the under-educated are losing years of life, they will doubtless discover that part of the answer is because they have lived in America’s gutters, so to speak, and had to struggle to keep body and soul together. The effort to merely exist takes a fearful toll on these forgotten Americans who are largely invisible to most of us.
This is one of the ways that the United States of America is exceptional.
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
UNIONTOWN — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Wildcat girls came up short in A-team action on the road Thursday.
Uniontown defeated the Wildcats 25-19, 20-25, 15-13. The Wildcat A-team is 5-3 on the season.
Trinitee Gutierrez served 13 points for the Wildcats. Kyla Drake had nine points and Misty Storrer had six points.
Marmaton Valley’s B-team improved to 4-0 with a 25-12, 25-14 win over Uniontown.
Shelby Yoho served up 17 points and Clara Boyd had 11 points. Megan Ensminger served for seven.
In C-team play, Marmaton Valley beat Uniontown 15-9, 15-9. Shailee Woods had six points serving. Karlie Stephens and Kari Shadden had four points serving and Patricia Outlan had three service points.
HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Middle School’s Lady Cubs won two A-team volleyball matches but lost two B-team matches Thursday.
The Lady Cubs beat Neodesha 25-16, 25-15 and 25-8, 25-21 in A-team action.
In the first match, Sydney Houk had 10 aces out of her 18 serves for Humboldt. Annalise Whitcomb had nine set assists for the two matches.
“Anna really set the ball well for us. She really played smart,” said Terry Meadows, HMS volleyball head coach.
Tilar Wells and Makaylah McCall each had four kills on the night and Houk had three kills. Whitcomb downed two kills while Cara Bartlett and Kailey Wolken had one kill each.
Kira McReynolds, Wells, and Kassie Angleton had six ace serves each. Bartlett had four aces while Wolken and Rylan Wilhite had one ace each.
In B-team action, Neodesha beat Humboldt 25-13, 23-25, 15-5 and 25-20, 25-15.
Humboldt got three aces serves from Britnee Works and two aces from Kati Carpenter. Morgan Lea, Chassis Hoepker and Hannah Riebel each had one ace serve.
HOWARD — Marmaton Valley High’s starters took the road Friday for the first time of the 2012 season.
They lasted all of one play.
Wildcat Kent Houk sent his starters to the bench after Marmaton Valley ran back the opening kickoff 60 yards for a touchdown.
Junior varsity players took it from there for the Wildcats, still piling up 46 points against a struggling West Elk squad.
The 46-0 victory ended at halftime.
“Their program is really struggling this season, so we gave our younger players some valuable playing time,” Houk said. “A few of them got their first Friday night touchdowns.”
A trio of freshmen did most of the damage.
Austin Deer had scoring rus covering 50 and 43 yards, part of a 10-carry, 133-yard performance. Michael Beggs added 24 yards on three carries, including touchdown runs of two and 13 yards. Keagon Boyd provided a 12-yard touchdown run.
West Elk struggled mightily. The Patriots wound up with a negative eight yards of total offense. The Wildcats did not attempt a pass, nor did they punt. West Elk punted six times.
Deer led Marmaton Valley with six tackles. Lane Hamm, a junior, had five stops.
“It was good to give our varsity players some rest for districts next week,” Houk said.
Marmaton Valley travels to Marais Des Cygnes Valley next Friday to open Kansas Eight Man I, District 2 play.
Marmaton Valley 46-0-x-x—46
West Elk 0-0-x-x—0
MV — Frye 60 yd kickoff return (Becker run)
MV – Beggs 2 yd run (Boyd run)
MV — Deer 60 yd run (PAT failed)
MV — Boyd 12 yd run (Deer pass from Johnson)
MV — Beggs 13 yd run (Deer run)
MV — Deer 43 yd run (Beggs run)