Mr. and Mrs. Loel Hornback of rural Parsons will honor their 65th wedding anniversary this week with a card shower. Loel Hornback and Yvonne Alexander were married Sept. 8, 1945, in Cherryvale. Th...
Huffs celebrate 70th anniversary Paul and Margaret Huff of rural McCune will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary with a casual-dress reception hosted by their children from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 11 in the fellowship area of Osag...
Patriots’ Day pictures needed Downtown Parsons Inc. is honoring servicemen and women for Patriots’ Day on Sept. 10. The organization is seeking framed or unframed photos of veterans and current servicemen and women to be disp...
Our Past These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Sept. 1, 1970 A soft-spoken veteran of the business paid his first visit to Parsons as president of the Katy Railroad. For a...
Our Past These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Aug. 31, 1970 Stan Brewer won the 1970 city golf championship. The Army-bound youth played out the string in a 5 and 3 victo...
Medlam, Sotiropoulos engagement Stepheni Danielle Medlam and Lee Ilias Sotiropoulos were married in a 9 p.m. Aug. 13 double-ring ceremony at Little White Wedding Chapel, Las Vegas. The bride is the daughter of Drew and Cathy Rob...
Bradfields celebrate 60th Carlos and Ruth Bradfield of Pittsburg celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Aug. 6 with a family dinner. The couple were married on Aug. 6, 1950, at the Methodist Church in Oswego. Mr. Bra...
Brandenburg, Adams engagement Jill Elaine Brandenburg of Lawrence and David Scott Adams of Topeka were married on July 10 at First Presbyterian Church in Parsons with the Rev. Sharlyn Gates officiating. The bride is the daught...
Heards honor 50th Milburn and Fay Heard of Eufaula, Okla., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 23 with a surprise party. The couple were married on Aug. 21, 1960, in Wichita. Mr. Heard retired from In...
Good ... in the Badlands Providence can creep up in the strangest places. On a family mini-vacation (one day of sight-seeing, followed by two days of travel home), we visited Mount Rushmore and drove the loop through the ...
These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Aug. 28-29, 1970 The final design of the centerpiece that would be a highlight of the downtown mall in Parsons was evolving...
These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Aug. 27, 1970 The cost of the Aug. 4 primary in Labette County was $2.04 a vote, County Clerk Quincy Greer reported. Greer ...
These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Aug. 26, 1970 Stan Brewer turned an even match after 13 holes into a 5-up lead after 18 in the first half of the 1970 city ...
These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Aug. 25, 1970 Parsons’ two high school football teams had smaller turnouts on the opening day of workouts for the new seaso...
Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins will hold mobile office hours in Parsons next week at Parsons Public Library. The session will start at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1, while Congress is in recess. “Si...
These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Aug. 24, 1970 Parsons public and parochial schools began the new term with total enrollments of 2,913, down 123 from the fi...