William J. “Bill” Suhr, age 83 of New Boston, Missouri died Friday, December 18, 2015 at Boone Hospital Center, Columbia. Bill was born at Oran, Iowa on September 28, 1932 to Willie and Goldie (Menuey) Suhr. He married Janis C. Reuber June 30, 1956 and she preceded him in death in 2010.
Bill had worked … > More >
Dolores Marsh, age 84, of Meadville, died Wednesday, January 28, 2015, at Pershing Memorial Hospital in Brookfield. A funeral service will be Monday, February 2, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. at the Immaculate Conception Church in Brookfield. Burial will be in St. Michael’s Cemetery in Brookfield. The family will receive friends Monday at the church from … > More >
by Hank Miller
This is my 1962 Mizzou School of Journalism term paper on Marceline’s History of newspapers. The paper covers Marceline’s first papers from 1888, until the interview with Joe Belic in 1962. It is interesting to read about the early days, the depression and War I and War II with the Santa Fe … > More >
by Hank Miller
How Marceline began – President James Monroe granted 160 acres of territorial land in Northern Missouri (later to become Linn County) to Henry Burkett on February 17, 1819.
The land exchanged ownership a multitude of times and faced legal battles until the Tuckerman family sold the property in 1887 to the Santa … > More >
