Sharon Utterback Mary Merritt

Bonnie Jewell

Services for Sharon Frances Utterback, 72, of Perry, were held at 11:00 A.M., Thursday, June 22, 2023, at Bienhoff Funeral Home in Perry, with Pastor Paul Mitchell Young officiating. Burial followed in the Lick Creek Cemetery.

Visitation was from 9:00 A.M. until the time of the service at the funeral home.

Ms. Utterback passed away at 1:05 P.M., Sunday, June 18, 2023, at Capitol Regional Hospital in Jefferson City.

Sharon was born on August 7, 1950, in Hannibal, the daughter of Melvin Curtis and Frances Mae Bloomfield Utterback.

Survivors include; several cousins, other relatives, and a host of friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Curtis and Frances Utterback.

Ms. Utterback was a lifetime area resident and Christian by faith. Growing up she enjoyed playing pitch with her Fagan area friends. She graduated from Mark Twain High School in 1968 and would go on to get her bachelors, Masters, and specialist degree in education. She taught for twenty-four years as a second-grade teacher, four years in reading recovery and two years as a STARR teacher before her retirement. Sharon has always seen joy in fireworks, Christmas time, dogwoods blooming, watching boat races at her lake house, and tulip festivals on her occasional trips to Iowa. Most of all Sharon enjoyed her friends and pets, whether that was at Entre Nous or Wednesday Club meetings or her favorite of trying new restaurants. Sharon had several pets that were family, Princess Lizzy, Coco, Maggie May, Beautiful, and Precious were all very close to Sharon.

Pallbearers were Oscar Jones, Derrick Moss, Paul Parkinson, Aaron Young, Brandon Young, and Tim Trower.

Memorial contributions may be made to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in care of Bienhoff Funeral Home, P.O. Box 427, Perry, Missouri 63462.

Online condolences may be made at www.bienhofffuneralhome.com.

Mary Merritt, 93, of Unionville, Missouri, passed away at her home on Tuesday, June 20, 2023. She had been in failing health.

Mary Louise Merritt was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 1, 1930, the daughter of Clarence E. and Lydia Burt (Davis) Merritt. She was reared in Wichita, Kansas, where she graduated from high school and attended college for two years. She married Maurice Lallement in 1952 and he passed away in 1954. She worked as a secretary for an airline in Wichita. Mary married Fredric Platner in 1955 and spent the next several years with him as he moved from one naval base to another. She lived from coast to coast and north and south in the United States, all the while caring for five children. Mary taught school briefly in Annapolis, Maryland. She married Barry Lindsey in 1975 and worked with him in the insurance business.

Mary was a well-loved grandmother. She had a sweet and kind tempera- ment and an indomitable spirit. She liked to research both paternal and maternal ancestry and she liked history. Mary liked to travel. She was an honorary member of the Susies at Stephens College and attended First Church when she lived in Las Vegas.

Mary is survived by her children: Mary Gwyn (Tom) Keedy and Beverly Ballance both of Unionville, Missouri; Aaron (Rosa) Platner of Temecula, California; and Adrienne Pendergrass of Las Vegas, Nevada. Her six grandchildren are Elizabeth McKinley, James (Jay) McKinley, Rebecca Petet, Michael Lotfi, Ryan Pendergrass, and William Pendergrass. Great grandchildren are Kaytlin McKinley-Jefferis, Jayson McKinley, Ellieana Pendergrass, and Madison Pendergrass, Bellamy and Henry Petet and her great-great grandchild is Malcolm Jefferis.

Mary was preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, LeeAnn Platner; a sister, Wanita Merritt; and her husbands, Maurice Lallement, Fredric Platner, and Barry Lindsay.

Mary wished to be cremated with inurnment in Wichita. Memorials may be made payable to Hospice of Northeast Missouri, PC Café and Resource Center or Putnam County Care Center and entrusted with Playle and Collins Family Funeral Home, 709 S. 27th St., Unionville, MO 63565.

Bonnie Bell Jewell, 81, of Raymore, Missouri, passed away on June 20, 2023. She was the eighth of nine children. Bonnie was born on a farm in Lucerne, Missouri, on June 9, 1942, the daughter of Paul and Ethel (Hamilton) Valentine. She attended Putnam County High School through her junior year when she met Larry Jack, and they soon married on May 2nd, 1959, at West Liberty Baptist Church. They recently celebrated 64 years of marriage. They moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where she graduated from Southeast High School in 1961. She worked at Sears Roebuck & Company in downtown Kansas City while attending her senior year in high school. After Jack was drafted into the Army they moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where she continued to work for Sears in Hawaii. In 1963 Jack was discharged from the Army. They moved to Kansas City where they eventually bought their first home in Grandview, Missouri. Bonnie continued to work for Sears until 1972, and soon went to work for Marion Laboratories as a Quality Controller until her retirement in 1993. In 1999 they bought acreage in Raymore, Missouri, where they hosted many family gatherings, celebrations and even a wedding.

Bonnie was a member of First Baptist Church of Grandview for more than 50 years. She taught Sunday School, VBS, sang in the choir, and helped prepare many funeral family dinners. She was skilled at sewing and cooking and enjoyed traveling and visiting family every chance she could. She loved planting flowers and decorating her home. If you ever had the chance to visit their home, you were blessed to experience her great cooking and hospitality. Her most cherished moments were times spent with all her family around her at their home.

Bonnie was preceded in death by her parents, Paul and Ethel (Hamilton) Valentine, four brothers, Warner (Mary) Valentine, Joe (Fern) Valentine, Sammy (Mardell) Valentine, Victor Valentine, and two sisters, Alma (Bill) Valentine-Young, Jessie (Keith) Valentine-Worley.

Bonnie is survived by her husband Larry Jack Jewell, and their two daughters, Stephanie and husband Kurt French and their daughter Emilee and husband Zach Klippert and grandson Kaneann; and daughter Staci and husband Art Peters and their eight children: Sarah and husband Connor Love, Victoria and husband Colson Brandt and their sons, Jude and Jameson, Anna, and Sarah Grace; and their four sons, Joseph, Jackson, Abenet, and Tony. She is also survived by two sisters, Amber Michael and Connie Valentine, and sister-in-law Opal Valentine. She also claimed their former foreign exchange student, Andrea Lucas de Silva from Brazil, as her daughter.

Bonnie fought several illnesses for a few years before she passed into Jesus arms on June 20, 2023, at Kansas City Hospice House in Kansas City, Missouri. She was surrounded by her husband, daughters, granddaughter, and great grandson, all holding her hands and surrounding her with prayer.

Funeral services for Bonnie Jewell will be at Playle and Collins Family Funeral Home in Unionville, Missouri, at 11:00 am on Friday, June 30, 2023, with visitation one hour prior to the service. Interment will be at the West Liberty Cemetery in Putnam County.

Memorials may be made payable to the West Liberty Cemetery and entrusted with Playle and Collins Family Funeral Home, 709 S. 27th St., Unionville, MO 63565.

Flight 11 Program Presented at Scotland County Rotary

eficial plants, but they also encourage and bolster the vegetation that promotes a healthy environment for native insects and other forms of Missouri wildlife, as well as people,” said Angela Sokolowski, MDC invasive species ecologist.

Support vehicles will be working behind the UTVs to provide materials and a water source as well as back-up safety to the spraying crews. Typically, spraying oper- ations should have little impact on traffic flow on state roadways as the work is done from the shoulder and side slopes of the roadside. Motorists are urged to use caution and slow down if they see an invasive species spraying operation at work.

For more information on the plants categorized as invasive for Missouri by the MDC, please visit https://mdc. mo.gov/trees-plants/invasive-plants.

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Submitted by Alisa Kiger Ron Kinzler, a Unionville Rotarian and Publisher of the Unionville Republican newspaper, presented a program to the members of the Rotary Club of Scotland County on June 21, 2023.

Kinzler gave a historical account of the Continental Flight 11 that crashed in Putnam County on May 22, 1962.

The flight was from Chicago to Kansas City with 45 passengers plus the crew. The flight departed around 8:35 pm. At around 9:17 pm the flight exploded near Centerville, IA, and crashed in northern Putnam County. For many days following the crash, local farmers and school boys in the area assist-

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– The Military Trails of Missouri program invites families and individuals to visit military museums, memorials, and battlefields throughout Missouri to learn about the state’s rich military history as well as its role in more distant conflicts. The program incorporates twelve museums, memorials, and Civil War battle sites.

for that grant was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative to stimulate Missouri’s economy by providing a program encouraging families to visit Missouri’s military-related sites.

ed law enforcement and emergency medical personnel to recover bodies. There were no survivors.

Upon investigation, the cause of the explosion and crash was determined to be a suicide bombing committed as insurance fraud by Mr. Thomas Doty who was to appear in court the following week for armed robbery. He had purchased a life insurance policy at the airport, prior to boarding the plane.

Kinzler reported that Arthur Hailey’s best-selling novel, Airport, and subsequent movie is loosely based on the events of the Continental Flight 11 crash. In July 2010, a memorial was erected on the courthouse lawn in Unionville to memorialize the passengers.

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Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) encourages the public to discover nature during frogging season. Beginning June 30 at sunset through Oct. 31, those with a fishing permit or small-game hunting permit may frog for bullfrogs and green frogs.

The daily limit is eight frogs of both species combined and the possession limit is 16 frogs of both species combined. Only the daily limit may be possessed on waters and bank of waters where frogging.

MDC notes that daily limits end at midnight. Froggers who catch their daily limits before midnight and want to return for more frogging after midnight must remove the daily limit of previously caught frogs from the waters or banks be- fore returning.

The public can go frogging with a fishing or small-game hunting permit, but children 15 and under and Missouri residents 65-years and older are not required to have a permit.

Those using a fishing permit may take frogs by hand, hand net, atlatl, gig, bow, trotline, throwline, limb line, bank line, jug line, snagging, snaring, grabbing, or poleand-line.

With a small-game hunting permit, frogs may be harvested using a .22-caliber or smaller rimfire rifle or pistol, pellet gun, atlatl, bow, crossbow, or by hand or hand net. The use of artificial light is permitted when frogging.

After frogging, be sure to browse recipes for your quarry by visiting MDC online at https:// short.mdc.mo.gov/Zxz.

The adventure begins by picking up a special keepsake passport booklet at one of the participating locations. The passport serves as an informational guide inviting participants to discover the military artifacts and stories each site offers. As families and individuals go from site to site collecting commemorative stamps and coins, they’ll learn about Missouri’s connection to military-related events from the Revolutionary War through modern-day warfare, including contributions by state veterans, military heroes, and leaders. Upon collecting all twelve stamps in their passports, participants earn their very own completion coin—available at any site.

The Military Trails of Missouri Program was created in partnership with Missouri’s National Veteran Memorial (MNVM), with Missouri Humanities awarding MNVM a $33,000 grant in support of the coins and passports. Funding

Program materials are now available, just in time for summer, to offer an educational and family-friendly Missouri vacation or multiple-day road trip! To learn more and to begin your adventure, visit: mohumanities.org/military-trails/.

This program is made possible in partnership with several participating locations, including the Battle of Athens State Historic Site, Battle of Lexington State Historical Site, Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, Missouri’s National Veterans Memorial, Museum of Missouri Military History, National WWI Museum and Memorial, The National Stars and Stripes Museum and Library, Soldiers Memorial Military Museum, Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, Veterans Memorial Museum, Wentworth Military Academy Museum, and Wilson Creek National Battlefield. Questions? Contact Lisa Carrico at lisa@mohumanities.org.