Roberta Ann Ross, age 78 of Marceline, died Thursday, January 22, 2015 at North Kansas City Hospice Care. Roberta was born at Marceline, Missouri on March 18, 1936 to Frederick Alexander and Katherine Grace (Passig) Still. She married Donald H. Ross on December 25, 1954 and he preceded her in death in 1996. Roberta was … > More >
Iola Mae Nanneman, age 86 of Macon, formerly of New Cambria, died Monday, January 19, 2015 at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia. Iola was born at Hunt City, Illinois on September 28, 1928 to Vonnie and Inez M. (Alexander) Ragon. She married Hilbert Nanneman on May 9, 1953 in Peoria, IL. Iola had worked at … > More >
The job of educating the children of Marceline began in a one-room school north of the present city limits in 1887 and in 100 years has, through excellent leadership and determined community support, grown into a modern, top-rated school system on an attractive campus at Santa Fe Street and Missouri Avenue.
The first school, called … > 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 >
Women Visitors at the Rusk Chapel Will Receive Flowers.
The formal opening of the Rusk Funeral Home, 128 West Ritchie Street, one block west of the Masonic Temple, will be this Saturday and Sunday afternoons between the hours of 1 and 10. The public is cordially invited. Roses and carnations will be … > More >
by Hank Miller
Letter from the Santa Fe Town and Land Company to the Public with the “PLAT OF ORIGINAL MARCELINE.” Taken from the Linn County Abstract Co. Abstracters of Land Titles, Linneus & Brookfield, MO dated November 30, 1887.
LINN COUNTY ABSTRACT CO.
ABSTRACTERS OF LAND TITLES
LINNEUS & BROOKFIELD, MO,
SANTA FE TOWN … > 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 >
