I was born Oct. 7, 1938 at Bothwell Hospital. I attended Washington Elementary and Smith-Cotton High School. I joined the United States Navy in 1955, and served on four WWll era Destroyers during my active career in the Navy. I am retired Navy with 24 years of service in the regular navy and the reserve force. I have worked in real estate sales, mobile home sales and a lot of laborer type jobs. I retired from Payless Cashways as a dock worker, and machine operator in 2001 when they went out of business. I have written columns for the Sedalia Democrat, and the Sedalia News Journal and two books “Unhurried Days” and “Looking Back Again.” I have worked in Radio for over 10 years as a newsman and on-air columnist. I have been married to Marlene (Yahne) Miller for 53 years, and we have three children, four grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. I am currently working on a fiction book of short stories.
Jack Miller
Matriarch of One of Sedalia’s Prominent Families, Helen Rowlette Cecil, Dies at 89
Helen Rowlette Cecil of Sedalia, Missouri died on January 14, 2016. She was born on October 21, 1926 to Dessie and Alfred Rowlette. Helen had three sisters, Jeanne Ann, Gayle, and Gloria (who died at age 3). As young girls, Helen and Jeanne Ann enjoyed singing, and their father taught them to sing harmonies...
Donald Ray Duppass, 63
Donald Ray Duppass, 63, of Sedalia, died October 26, 2015 at his home. Memorial services will held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Higginsville, Missouri. Funeral services are under the Direction of the Ewing-Schutte-Semler Funeral Home in Sedalia...
Chiefs: The Dream Lives
To a Chief's fan Saturday is our "Star Wars" day. It has been a long road, but our Chiefs are at the same point they were at when Joe Montana, and Marcus Allen were here, with an opportunity to win a second playoff game. Will we wake up Sunday knowing it is not over, and we will go on...
Jack’s Mid-Missouri-Memory: The Old House
The Old House
When I was growing up in Sedalia Missouri in the forties and fifties my family like many others, lived in rented houses. It was always exciting as a child to move into a new house with all its hidden secrets to discover, but a little sad too, that we were moving from the old one that had become such a familiar place. ...
Morning: Missouri State Highway Patrol Accident Reports For Friday January 15, 2015
Serious injuries reported for a Mora man in a Pettis County accident Thursday
At 6:30pm Thursday morning a 48-year-old Mora man identified as 48-year-old Richard A. Sprouse of Mora suffered serious injuries in a one-vehicle crash on Route “V” East of Gardenia Road in Pettis County...
Afternoon: Sedalia Police Crime Reports For Thursday January 14, 2016
Suspect Rams Pettis County Deputy’s vehicle during a pursuit
On Saturday the 9th of January the Sedalia Police and a Pettis County Sheriff’s Deputy were in pursuit of a vehicle in the 1500 block of Thompson Blvd, when the pursued vehicle rammed the deputy’s vehicle...
Thomas Eugene “Tom” Kleoppel, 55
Thomas Eugene “Tom” Kleoppel, 55, of Warrensburg, formerly of Sedalia, died Monday, January 11, 2016, at Lee’s Summit Medical Center.
He was born April 25, 1960, in Independence, a son of the late Bernard D. and Wilma F. (Anson) Kleoppel. On ...
Helen Louise Mazelin, 83
Helen Louise Mazelin was born on December 23, 1932, to Enoch and Emma (Mazelin) Habegger at Berne, Indiana. She peacefully passed away in the early morning hours of January 11, 2016 at the age of eighty-three years, two weeks and five days at Bethel Home in Montezuma, Kansas, after a period of declining health...
Thomas Eugene Kleoppel, 55
Thomas Eugene Kleoppel, 55, of Warrensburg, formerly of Sedalia, died Monday, January 11, 2016
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Friday, January 15, 2016 at McLaughlin Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p...
Dorothy Mae Anderson, 96
Dorothy Mae Anderson, 96, formerly of Sedalia, MO, passed away Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at Mercy Hospital in Cassville.
She was born September 22, 1919, in Sedalia, a daughter of Fred Oscar and Julia Edith Chedell Decker.
On September 12, 1943, at Broadway Presbyterian Church in Sedalia, she was married to Lilburn Lee Anderson...