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Ruth Bernice Marriner Hollenbeck, age 98, of Concordia, MO, formerly of Oregon, MO, and Mound City, and later of Moberly, MO, died on Saturday, September 17, 2016, at the Lutheran Good Shepherd Home in Concordia, which was her home for several years. Ruth Hollenbeck was born on January 1, 1918, at her parents’ home in Curzon, MO, near Oregon, the daughter of the late John and Abbie Kreek Marriner of Oregon. She graduated from Oregon High School in 1935 at the age of 17, and retained her membership throughout the years in the Oregon United Methodist Church.

Ruth was a lifelong teacher, beginning in 1936 at the age of 18 when she taught in a one-room rural school on a teaching certifi-cate which, at the time, required 35 hours of college and passing the State Teachers’ Examination. As Ruth continued in her teaching career, she went on to complete a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Northwest Missouri State Teachers’ College (now Northwest Missouri State University) in Maryville, MO, as well as a Master of Education degree from Northwest Missouri State and a Master of Science degree in Geography from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

In Holt County, MO, Ruth taught in the rural school districts of Highland, Union and Culp, and then taught eighth grade in Ore-gon and coached boys’ basketball at Oregon High School for two years. Those were World War II years, and all the male teachers and coaches were in the armed services. The family remembers how Ruth often spoke of how her boys’ team had winning seasons when she coached.

Also, during the war years, Ruth worked on the sugar rationing board for Holt County where they handled the rationing of sugar, coffee, tea, tires and shoes. However, by 1945, Ruth decided she wanted to join the war effort, and left teaching to go into the Ameri-can Red Cross.

After a brief training period in Washington, DC, Ruth was shipped overseas with 65 other Red Cross workers for more train-ing in Europe. She began her duties as a Red Cross Servicemen’s Club assistant director in Italy in Bari on the Adriatic. Soon she was transferred to Northern Italy to Canale on the Isonzo River near Yugoslavia where, in many ways, her teaching career began again.

Ruth hired Italian and Slovene girls to work in the Red Cross Club making coffee, serving tables, cleaning and other duties. None of them spoke English, thus Ruth’s first job there quickly became teaching English as another language. Some of the locals spoke a little French and the German prisoners of war spoke only German. Communication was difficult, and everyone there wanted to learn English, Ruth recalled during her lifetime. Her rank was Captain in the American Red Cross.

After nearly two years of service, Ruth finished her Red Cross tour of duty and came back to the United States where she married her high school sweetheart, Glenn Russell Hollenbeck of Mound City. They moved to California and had three children. In 1952, they moved back to Holt County where Ruth resumed her teaching career. She taught eighth grade in a rural elementary school in New Point, MO, near Oregon. She then taught several years in the ele-mentary school at Mound City, was the elementary school principal, and taught social studies and history at Mound City High School. In 1967, Ruth and Glenn moved to Moberly, MO, where they both taught until 1980 when they retired. During those years, Ruth taught high school social studies and was social studies department chair-man at Moberly High School.

After retiring from public schools in 1980, Ruth began a second career of helping students earn their General Education Diplomas (GED’s) and became the administrator of the literacy program in adult basic education for the Moberly Area Junior College (now the Moberly Area Community College). Once again, Ruth found her-self teaching English as a second language. She traveled for a year teaching adults in several states about how to use a computer in teaching adult education. Soon she was appointed, along with eight others from across the United States, to serve on First Lady Bar-bara Bush’s National Literacy Committee. In those years, she also served as a Republican Committeewoman from Randolph County, and Glenn was a Republican Committeeman. Ruth retired from her ‘second’ teaching career in 1991.

Ruth was preceded in death by her husband of 46 years, Glenn Hollenbeck, in 1992; a brother, Richard Marriner of Oregon; and a sister, Esther Marriner Kneale, also of Oregon. Surviving are Ruth’s son and daughter-in-law, John and Diane Hollenbeck, of Cripple Creek, CO; daughter and son-in-law, Pat and Lee Milligan, of Hous-ton, TX; and daughter and son-in-law, Kay and Harold Hoflander of Higginsville, MO; five grandsons, John Paul Hollenbeck of Olathe, KS, Russell Knocke of Phoenix, AZ, Jonathan Hoflander and Jo-seph Hoflander, both of Kansas City, MO, and Keven Hoflander of Higginsville; three granddaughters, Allison Hollenbeck Kleiber and Lindsey Hollenbeck Miller, both of Columbia, MO, and Camie Ho-flander Bolletta of Polk City, IA. Ruth is also survived by 13 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Services will be held on Monday, September 26, 2016, at 11:30 a.m. at Chamberlain Funeral Home in Oregon. Family members will greet friends one hour prior to services at the funeral home. In-terment will be made in Maple Grove Cemetery in Oregon. Memo-

Ruth Hollenbeck Maude LawsonMaude Lydia (Siekmann) Lawson,

86, of St. Joseph, MO, passed away Saturday, September 17, 2016, at her home. She was born in Fairfax, MO, and raised in Mound City. She gradu-ated from Bellevue High School and attended Tarkio College in Tarkio, MO. She was employed with the St. Joseph School District for over 35 years in food service.

Maude was a member of Eastside Baptist Church, and a former member of Bible Baptist Temple. She cared deeply for and volunteered at Echo Ranch Bible Camp in Juneau, AK, and the St. Joseph Pregnancy Resource Center.

Maude married Herbert A. Lawson on June 16, 1952, and they were married for over 41 years. He preceded her in death in Feb-ruary of 1993. She was also preceded in death by her parents, Martin and Maude (Greenlee) Siekmann, and siblings, Lloyd, Willard, Fahla, Katherine and Frank.

Surviving family includes children, Greg Lawson and Neal Lawson of St. Joseph, and Donna Sass of Honolulu, HI; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and other living relatives, Sharon Buck and Lois Siekmann, sisters-in-law; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Services were held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 20, 2016, at Eastside Baptist Church in St. Joseph. Interment was made at Mount Auburn Cemetery in St. Joseph. The family sug-gests memorial contributions to Echo Ranch Bible Camp, PO Box 210608, Auke Bay, AK 99821; or online giving may be made at echoranch.org.

Ralph Lee Phelps, 71, a longtime res-ident of Rock Port, MO, passed away in the early hours of the morning on Sat-urday, September 17, 2016, at Bryan LGH Medical Center East in Lincoln, NE, after a brief illness. Ralph, the son of Walter and Lillie (Oswald) Phelps, was born June 3, 1945, in Maryville, MO. After graduating from Rock Port High School in 1964, Ralph entered the United States Air National Guard and served his country during the Vietnam Era.

On May 25, 1968, Ralph was united in marriage to Janice Kay Randall at the Christian Church in Craig, MO. They made their home in the Atchison County area during their 48 years of mar-riage.

Ralph was an exceptional finish carpenter and built and remod-eled homes throughout Atchison and Holt counties. He also en-joyed farming throughout his life. He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Rock Port and served there in numerous ca-pacities including as a Board Trustee and Administrative Board member at -large. He was also a member of the Ralph Greer Ameri-can Legion Post #49, Rock Port, and actively served his commu-nity as a member of the Phelps City Dike and Drainage Board and the Fair Oaks Senior Housing Board.

Ralph will be deeply missed and remembered most of all as a loving husband, brother and uncle, and kind friend to all who knew him. Ralph held a special place in the hearts of his nieces and neph-ews, who all adored him. Ralph especially enjoyed having coffee throughout the week with friends at the ‘woodshed’, where he will be fondly remembered.

Besides his parents, Ralph was preceded in death by a half sis-ter, Dorothy Mahan. Survivors include his devoted wife, Janice Phelps, Rock Port; brother, John (Linda) Phelps, Rock Port; and nieces, Joni Phelps, Colorado Springs, CO, and Lisa (Phelps) Fre-borg and her husband, Scott, and sons (great-nephews), Myles and Jordan (Katie), as well as many other beloved brothers and sisters- in- law, nieces, nephews, cousins; and their feline “girls”, Prissy and Shadow.

A memorial service is being held at 11 a.m. today, Thursday, September 22, 2016, at the United Methodist Church in Rock Port, located at 211 W. Opp Street in Rock Port. Prior to the service, the family is receiving friends from 10 to 11 a.m. in the church fellowship hall. Inurnment is taking place at Hunter Cemetery in Rock Port.

Memorials may be directed to the United Methodist Church of Rock Port or the Rock Port Volunteer Fire Department. Online condolences may be left at www.minterfuneralchapels.com. Ser-vices are under the direction of Minter Funeral Chapel, Rock Port.

Ralph Phelps

Registration is open for the 2016 Great Central United States (U.S.) “ShakeOut” earth-quake drill on Thursday, Octo-ber 20. More than 450,000 Mis-sourians are already registered to participate in the annual drill, which teaches people how to protect themselves in an earth-quake. More than two million people are signed up in 14 cen-tral U.S. states that could be im-pacted by a major New Madrid Seismic Zone earthquake.

At exactly 10:20 a.m. on Thursday, October 20, partici-pants will practice “Drop, Cov-er, Hold On”:

DROP to your hands and knees, under a table or a desk if you can;

COVER your head and neck with your hands and arms; and

HOLD ON until the shaking stops.

Experts say “Drop, Cover, Hold On” is the best way to pro-tect oneself from falling debris, which is the most likely cause of injury during an earthquake in developed nations with modern building standards.

“It’s very important for peo-ple to immediately know what to do to protect themselves be-cause earthquakes occur without warning,” said State Emergency Management Agency Director Ron Walker.

To sign up for the “Shake-Out”, visit www.shakeout.org/cen tralus. Once registered, par-ticipants receive regular updates on the drill, as well as informa-tion on earthquake preparedness and safety. The “ShakeOut” website also includes many re-sources, including manuals, vid-eos, audio drill broadcasts and earthquake scenarios.

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Madrid Seismic Zone, which includes southeast Missouri, produced some of the largest earthquakes ever in the conti-nental U.S. A major earthquake in this area could result in dam-age in much of southern and eastern Missouri, including the St. Louis area.

To learn more about earth-quakes in Missouri and how to prepare, visit www.sema.dps.mo.gov/earthquake_prepared ness. The site includes brief vid-eos that show how to conduct a “ShakeOut” drill.

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Tuesday Club started off the 2016-17 club year with a social hour and supper at The Klub on the evening of Tuesday, September 13. Members enjoying the start of the new club year were Kris Gib-son, Judith Long, Debbie Loucks, Linda Creed, Patty Davis, Wava Cunningham, Brenda Ryan, Carly Loucks, Kay Sitherwood, Jeanne Moore, Kodi Tubbs, Jane Meadows, Susan Laukemper, Phyllis Parker, and Sandra Fuhrman.

The next meeting will be the first business meeting and program at the home of Wava Cunningham at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, September 27. Debbie Loucks will present the program.

Tuesday Club kicks off the new year

rials may be directed to the Holt County Historical Society or the Maple Grove Cemetery Associa-tion. Online condolences may be left at www.chamberlainfuneral.com.

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A community cleanup - Was held in Craig, MO, last Thursday, October 18. Craig R-3 students and teachers walked around town collecting trash in large bags. Pictured during the cleanup are, left to right, Rhett Haynie, Emmie Akers, Hallie Grist and Eric Dyer (Craig R-3 business teacher ).

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Community cleanup in Craig

Donald Lee (Ferd) Ray, age 87, of Fairfax, MO, passed away on Wednesday, October 24, 2018, at Community Hospital-Fairfax, MO (CH-F), surrounded by family. He was born August 7, 1931, to Clara Marie (Biggs) and R. Don Ray of Fairfax.

Ferd graduated from Fairfax High School in 1949 and worked several jobs in the area after graduation. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1952 during the Korean War and was stationed in Worms, Germany, for two years of service. He was employed by St. Joseph Light and Power Company after his return from service and worked there for 36 years until taking retirement.

Ferd was a respected member of the Fairfax Baptist Church. He was baptized in 1949 and served in many capacities for the church, including Deacon (27 years, 13 as Chairman of Deacons), Sunday School Superintendent and numerous committees. He was extremely faithful in his service to the church and especially to his Lord and Savior. He was an active member and past president of the Fairfax Kiwanis Club. Ferd also served a period of time as an alderman for the City of Fairfax.

Ferd was united in marriage to Leona M. Davenport of Fair-fax on June 19, 1955. Together they raised two sons, Morris and Roger. Four grandchildren and a great-grandchild were added to the family creating great joy and pride for Grandpa Ferd.

Ferd had four great loves in his life. The three most important loves to Ferd were his Lord, Leona and his family. His other pas-sion was golf. He was well known in the area for his prowess on the golf course. Ferd made many friends and acquaintances over the years while leaving his footprints all over the area. He missed playing golf in his later years but most of all he missed the compe-tition and the friends he had made along the way.

Ferd was preceded in death by his parents; his loving stepmoth-er, Margaret (Dunkelberger) Ray; and his grandparents, Nick and Edna Ray, Norma Biggs, and Earl and Mamie Dunkelberger. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Leona; sons, Morris (Toni) Ray of Fairfax and Roger (Jill) Ray of Olathe, KS; grandchildren, Tan-ton (Shannon) Ray of Fairfax, Mitchel (Lauren) Ray of Olathe, Ty-ler Ray of Olathe, and Tristan (Baylee) Ray of Fairfax; one great-grandson, Emmett Ray; brother, Frank (Phyllis) Ray of Johnson City, TN; sister-in-Law, Joyce Springer of Tarkio, MO; nephews and nieces, Curtis (Gail) Hedrick of Tarkio, Craig (Diana) Hedrick of Platte City, MO, and Suzanne (John) Marriott of Aurora, CO; and three grandnieces.

Visitation and funeral services were held at the Fairfax Baptist Church in Fairfax on Saturday, October 27. Visitation was held from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., with funeral services following at 2 p.m. Burial was held at Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Fairfax, fol-lowing the funeral. Memorials may be given to the Fairfax Baptist Church Remodel Fund, the American Diabetes Association or the National Parkinson’s Foundation. Arrangements were under the direction of Schooler Funeral Home, Fairfax/Craig, MO.

Donald Lee (Ferd) Ray

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The thermometer showing funds raised for this year’s Holt County Toy Fund appears in this week’s Mound City News. Each year, the communities in Holt County join together in an effort to collect new toys and raise money to purchase toys and food from businesses in the county to help those who may need a little assistance during the holiday season.

Anyone wanting to help is en-couraged to donate money, toys, prayers, and their time to help the children in the community have a good Christmas. The goal this year is to raise $8,000 to help over 185 local children and families. Churches in the county have jars available to collect monetary do-nations for the fund. Donations may also be sent to: Holt County Toy Fund, 504 State Street, Mound City, MO 64470. Toys may be taken to Miller Realty, Inc., at 504 State Street in Mound City.

Holt County Toy Fund taking donations

Emma Jane Fisher was born on November 14, 1924, in Mound City to William W. and Ida Mae (Andes) Murray.

Emma worked as a registered nurse (RN). She married George Alfred Fisher, and they became parents of two children. He passed away in 2006.

Emma passed away on Tues-day, October 23, 2018, at Tiffany Heights care center in Mound City at the age of 93.

In addition to her husband, George, Emma was preceded in death by her brothers, Harold, Willard and Hansen Murray; and her sister, Lela Murray Nauman.

Survivors include Emma’s children, Norman (Donna) Fisher of Venice, FL, and Gaylene (Michael) Laupp of Paradise, CA; two grandchildren, Justin and Travis Fisher; nephews, Hugh and Hal Nauman of Mound City; great-nieces and great-nephews, Carmen Showalter, Becky Baker, Staci Nauman, Allen Nau-man, James Nauman, Dallas Nauman and Tracy Nauman.

Services will be held on Monday, November 5, 2018, in Cal-ifornia. Care was entrusted to Chamberlain Funeral Home in Mound City and Darling-Fischer Mortuary Chapel of the Hills in Los Gatos, CA.

Emma Jane Fisher

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) will test its readiness to plow snow for the upcoming winter season with a statewide drill on Wednesday, November 7.

Motorists may notice increased numbers of MoDOT vehicles on state routes during the drill. In rural areas, crews will deploy after 8 a.m. In urban areas, the drill will not begin until after 9 a.m. The exercise should be completed by 3 p.m.

"The annual drill helps to make sure we all know our roles during a winter storm so we can do our jobs successfully,” said State Main-tenance Engineer Becky Allmeroth. “More than 3,500 MoDOT employees are involved in ensuring we clear roads and bridges as quickly as possible when winter weather hits.”

During the drill, MoDOT employees will react to a simulated forecast of significant snow for the entire state. The department’s emergency operations’ centers will activate and maintenance em-ployees will be deployed to their trucks. Emergency communica-tions’ systems will also be tested.

The drill serves as a training reminder to make sure proper equip-ment, plowing techniques and safety measures are used. In addi-tion, every piece of equipment - every truck, motor grader, snow blower, and tractor - is inspected.

"Careful planning and preparation mean our crews can mobilize when needed, and our equipment will be ready," said Allmeroth.

Allmeroth said one of the most valuable parts of the drill is that it allows MoDOT’s newest employees the opportunity to drive a

Statewide winter weather drill set for November 7

snowplow over their designated routes so they are aware of ob-stacles and obstructions, such as curbs and raised islands, that might be hidden in snow or ice.