July 2022

Shirley A. Carpenter

Shirley A. Carpenter, age 85, formerly of Concordia, KS, passed away on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at the Hillsboro Community Hospital, Hillsboro, KS. She was born at home on Jan 19, 1937 in Randalia, Fayette County, Iowa to Chester True & Alice Winifred (Treat) Hall.

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Carol Ann Wagner

Carol Ann Wagner, 66, of McPherson, KS, passed away July 19, 2022, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. Funeral arrangements are with Stockham Family Funeral Home, McPherson. (website: www. stockhamfamily.com)

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Edward Dale Anderson

Edward “Dale” Anderson, 91, died peacefully on Sunday, May 1, 2022 at Presbyterian Manor in Salina, Kansas. He was born in the New Gottland community of McPherson, Kansas to Ed and Pearl Anderson on January 28, 1931. Dale attended McPherson High School, graduating in 1949.

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Glenn Albert Hageman

Glenn Albert Hageman, 74, of McPherson, Kansas, passed away at 5:45 p.m., Sunday, July 17th, 2022 at McPherson Health And Rehab, McPherson, Kansas. Glenn was born in Wahoo, Nebraska.

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Stock Market Insights

MARKETS SETTLE UP Straighten up! I don’t read lips well but even sitting several pews back from my mom in church I knew what she was saying. I knew that sitting lower in the pew where she couldn’t see me wasn’t an option and that I needed to straighten up quickly.

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More than $11 million has poured into the Kansas abortion vote, and that could drive turnout

A massive flood of money into campaigns fighting over a Kansas ballot question about abortion rights will matter most by driving voter turnout, political scientists say The two main campaigns slugging it out over whether to strip abortion rights from the Kansas Constitution reported raising a combined $11.2 million in the run-up to the vote on Aug. 2.

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