Frances Irene Pulis, 81 of Brighton, died February 25, 2012. She was born September 24, 1930 in Kirksville, MO to the late Oscar Guy and Alta May (Kent) Shaffer.

Frieda Marie Mayer,age 97, formerly of Hurdland, MO, died Sunday, February 26, 2012, in Columbia, MO.

Claribel Myers, age 103 of Knox City, MO, died Thursday, February 23, 2012, at the Knox County Nursing Home at Edina, MO.

Francis Joseph Pflum, Sr. age 83 of Gentry, Arkansas formerly of Knox County, Missouri died Monday, February 20, 2012 in the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks in Fayetteville, AR.

Rogene Dye, 72 of Carthage, died Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 12:15 p.m.

Laura Hoover Nolt, 18, of rural Hurdland, Missouri, died unexpectedly, on February 13, 2012, while visiting in Ephrata, Pennsylvania.