Veterans
WWII veteran turns 102
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Lavelle Rickabaugh says he didn’t do much to make it to 102 years old, just a lot of hard work. “All that stuff kept me going,” he told The Forum last week after a surprise birthday celebration outside his home on Cooper Street. In keeping with social distance practices, the World War…
Read MorePurple Heart finds home at local museum
MARYVILLE, Mo. — A Purple Heart, belonging to a former Nodaway County resident and found in Arkansas, was presented to the Nodaway County Historical Society Museum on Monday. The medal was engraved to honor Staff Sgt. William Edward Callaway, born Oct. 14, 1922 to parents Vayne E. Callaway and Etta E. Callaway in Conception Junction,…
Read MoreStudents honor veterans at patriotic assembly
MARYVILLE, Mo. — With patriotic music, singing and small gifts, Maryville Middle School students honored local veterans at a Veterans Day Assembly held Friday in the school gym. Students emceed the event while the seventh grade band and eighth grade choir performed. At one point, the band played the official march or hymn for each…
Read MoreHides for veteran project stolen
MARYVILLE, Mo. — On Saturday, Dec. 15, a member of the Maryville Elks Lodge reported the theft of deer hides from the organization’s donation box outside the main lodge building. “I took it to the police just to let them know it occurred,” said John Nelson, exalted ruler of Lodge No. 760. “I couldn’t believe…
Read MoreEagle Scout project builds Legion medical storage shed
Boy Scout Jathan Ungles of Troop 190 in Maryville cut a ribbon on Thursday dedicating a building his Eagle Scout project helped build at the American Legion Post No. 100. Ungles organized the creation and raised half the cost of the new medical storage building for the Legion from March until it was completed a…
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