Womens History Month
Frank focuses on countywide public health care needs
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Public health wasn’t Tabitha Frank’s initial interest when becoming a nurse, however once she became involved in it, seeing the difference it made in people’s lives, she was hooked. Frank, public health nurse supervisor at the Nodaway County Health Department, has spent countless exhaustive hours at her desk and around the county…
Read MoreBoehs build 108 Family, bring real-world experience into education
MARYVILLE, Mo. — When Alexis and Candace Boeh first became special services teachers eight years ago, Maryville High School’s life skills program was lacking. “When we got to Maryville, the life skills program was probably two to three kids, and they were just in the classes that everybody else (was in). … There wasn’t like…
Read MoreLewis teaches art as an emotional outlet
GRAHAM, Mo. — Robin Lewis’ favorite color is yellow. “I’m sure that we had bad wood floors or something in our house, I don’t know, but my mom painted my floor like, sunshine yellow — the brightest yellow you could (find) — and when you walked up the stairs, that was my room, that was…
Read MoreSarah Caldwell: Music’s Wonder Woman
MARYVILLE, Mo. — While world-renowned opera and small-town Missouri do not often go hand-in-hand, Sarah Caldwell stands out as a prominent anomaly. She was born in Maryville in 1924 and was involved in the town’s musical community at an early age. Caldwell was a young prodigy and began to perform concerts outside of the state…
Read MoreAlma Nash: On the march
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Alma Nash was one of those people who never stopped working, and she didn’t let the fact that she was born a woman in 1883 limit what she could do. Nash is most well-known in the state of Missouri for her direction of the Missouri Ladies Military Band, which participated in the…
Read MoreMissouri Ladies Military Band
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Even though it is hard to imagine a time in our state’s history when women could not vote, it is a right that many women fought hard to get. The push for women’s suffrage really picked up in the 1910s in Missouri. Some women joined suffrage organizations, some traveled the state to…
Read MoreMcGinness volunteers for God, family, church and community
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Ed and Bonnie Dew, of Maryville, had five boys and three girls and Connie McGinness, the oldest of those eight, has made it a point in her life to serve others, starting with God, family, church and community. What has helped her find balance and focus has been her large, close family.…
Read MoreBeatty follows call to ‘go try everything’
RAVENWOOD, Mo. — On a shelf in Heidi Beatty’s third grade classroom, tucked away with all the other products of what she affectionately calls “years of love and accumulation” around her desk, is a binder that, like Beatty herself, seems to be bursting at the seams, overflowing with pieces of positivity that can barely be…
Read MoreHooyman blazes trail for women in higher education
MARYVILLE, Mo. — If Jamie Hooyman, the first female provost and chief academic officer at Northwest Missouri State University, will leave a legacy, she says, it will be in the “slivers” of success she’s ignited in the lives of others — just as her success has been the result of many women who have helped…
Read MoreLocal woman makes life change, ends up changing lives
MARYVILLE, Mo. — When the Energizer plant shut down in 2013, many people had to find a new path to sustain themselves and their families. For Maryville resident Annie Redford, now a Nodaway County Services staff member, that path led to helping others and eventually to some of the most fulfilling work of her life.…
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