The Lucas Countyan

Frank Daniel Myers died the morning of December 23, 2023, at Lucas County Health Center in Chariton.
Frank was born on March 27, 1946, during the time his parents, Daniel and Reefa (Miller) Myers, lived on the Evans place southeast of Russell.  When Frank was five, Daniel and Reefa purchased the Teater farm seven miles south of Russell, which remained...

I found this story of a young Chariton man's extraordinary performance under challenging conditions during World War II on Page 1 of The Herald-Patriot of Dec. 9, 1943 --- as did his family, who learned of his circumstances that year as Christmas approached...

The U.S.S. Pennsylvania, astern here of the remains of the destroyers Cassin and Downes, remained largely intact after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
John Pence seems to have been a memorable young man and it would be an honor to claim him as a Lucas Countyan. But John was an Osceola boy and when he died on Dec. 7, 1941, aboard the U.S.S. Pennsylvania at Pearl Harbor, he was the first among our neighbors...

Jim Palmer is widely known as a Christian preacher who ended up leaving his faith behind entirely as the years passed --- a not uncommon response.
But many of the concepts incorporated in that faith resurface, now and then.
Including this approach to the "kingdom of God," which some interpret to result from faith, prayer and the like; others, including many Christians, from effort on the part of believers and non-believers alike  to follow a path set out in directives attributed...