The Maryville Parks and Recreation Board met July 21 and heard updates from staff members. Reports Recreation Supervisor ...

Robert Lee “Bob” Johnson, 65, Barnard, died Monday, July 21, 2025, at KU Medical Center. He was born September 4, 1959, to Helen Ruth Johnson and Larry Johnson in Maryville. He earned his BS degree in ...

Golda Annette Strohecker, 81, died Sunday, March 16, 2025, in Oceanside, CA. She was born June 4, 1944, to Jesse and Mary Jane Dew Merriett at St. Francis Hospital, Maryville. She graduated from ...

Carole Ann Woldruff Spalding, 83, died Thursday, July 17, 2025. She was born July 7, 1942, in Hopkins, to Clarence “Glen” and Edna Mae Morehouse Woldruff. She graduated from Hopkins High School in ...

Joseph “Joe” Chad Johnston, 42, Clearmont, died Friday, July 18, 2025, at his home. He was born with a rare disease called Gaucher disease and was not expected to live through infancy. He wasn’t ...

Arlene O’Riley, 89, Maryville, died Sunday, July 6, 2025. She was born February 13, 1936, to James W. and Daisy Brandon Lynch in Lamar. She graduated from Quitman High School in 1954. On September 1, ...

Larry Lager, 79, Conception Jct, died Monday, July 21, 2025, at Mosaic Medical Center – Maryville. He was born July 23, 1945, to Lawrence B. and Beatrice D. Wiederholt Lager, Sr. in Maryville. He was ...

Doris Jean Songer, 80, Sidney, IA, died Thursday, July 17, 2025, at Nebraska Medicine-Omaha, NE. She was born on February 10, 1945, to Earl Rudolph “Hootie” and Geneva Marie Bartlett Hopkins, in ...

Patricia Irene Merrigan Archer, 94, Maryville, died Saturday, July 19, 2025, at Presbyterian Manor in Lawrence, KS. She was born September 25, 1930, to Patrick and Irene McLaughlin Merrigan in ...

Roger Allen Swaney, 86, Hopkins, died Thursday, July 17, 2025, at a healthcare center in Maryville. He was born May 24, 1939, to Roy Henry and Mary U. Fuller Swaney west of Hopkins. He attended school ...

Troy Michael Heflin, 48, Kansas City, formerly of Maryville, died Monday, July 14, 2025, at his home. He was born July 14, 1977, to Vince Michael and Teryl VeAnn Brown Heflin in Maryville. He had ...

Gary Lee Staples, 85, Omaha, NE, passed away peacefully and surrounded by family on July 8, 2025. Gary was born to Dorothy and Edwin Staples on October 22, 1939, in Burlington Jct.. Gary graduated ...