Patsy Lee (Raines) Poore passed away Wednesday, January 19, 2022, at age 87 and Freddie LeRoy Poore passed away on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, at age 92 in Prescott, Arizona.  

Pat and Fred met at Stockton High School and married in Stockton, Kansas in August of 1952. They both had long and productive lives and many adventures.

They will be missed as much as they were loved.

EL DORADO, Kansas—El Dorado Correctional Facility (EDCF) resident Luis Diaz died at the facility on Sunday morning, June 4, 2023. The cause of death is pending further investigation and the results of an independent autopsy.

Per protocol, when a resident dies in the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) custody, the death is under investigation by the KDOC and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI). The investigation is currently ongoing.

Joy Forster Crawford Birdwell, 93, of Natoma, Kansas, went to her heavenly home on May 28, 2023. She was the youngest of 11 children born to Ray and Livona Dudley Forster, on August 27, 1929, in Cawker City, Kansas.

When Joy was a young child during the Dirty '30s, she was overcome with dust pneumonia and recovered by God’s grace.