The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek.
Virginia Carlene Wake, 80, Leavenworth, Kan., died Saturday, January 7, 2023, at her home. She was born October 11, 1942, in Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of Thomas and Velma Lane Stroud. Virginia was affectionately known as “Dinny” by much of her family. After graduating from Washington High School, she studied and graduated from Providence Hospital Sisters of Charity School of Nursing in 1963. Virginia was united in marriage to Walter Lee Wake on April 25, 1964. She helped with the family dairy farm in Leavenworth and worked as a nurse at St. John’s Hospital. After having children, Virginia was a stay-at-home mother for her three sons. She was a devoted mother caring for her children’s health needs, was active in church Bible study, United Farm Wives, 4-H, and in her children’s school as a volunteer and room mother. Virginia always demonstrated compassion for all children, not just her own. Virginia completed a re-entry to nursing course upon her children entering college and worked as a nurse at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Leavenworth until her retirement in 2007. She was a tireless worker, wife, and mother who always put others needs before her own. Even as she was faced with multiple health issues in her later years, she rarely asked for help or complained, and she was always more concerned for others. Survivors include her husband of 58 years, Walter “Lee”, her son Kevin Wake (Jeffery Psota), brother Robert (Bob) Stroud (Theresa), and many family members and friends. She is predeceased by sons David Lee Wake and John Vincent Wake, her parents and sister Patricia Stroud. To honor Virginia’s memory, the family suggests memorial donations to Uriel Owens Sickle Cell Disease Association of the Midwest (444 Minnesota Avenue, Suite 300, Kansas City, KS 66101) or to High Prairie Church (26480 187th St., Leavenworth, KS 66048). Visitation services will be Thursday, January 12 from 4-6 p.m. at Davis Funeral Chapel, 531 Shawnee Street, Le
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When Basehor resident Chris Martin was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in March of 2000, not only did that diagnosis affect his life medically, it also had multiple long-term changes in his personal life as well. After continually visiting his physician due to shortness of breath and fatigue, he was found to have a volleyball size tumor in his chest and two small areas on his spleen as well as a lymph node in his abdomen.
Missouri River Relief has been around for 20 years, and they have done a great job of not only cleaning up the river, but also in educating people about the river while having fun doing it. I got involved when MRR came to me as the natural resources specialist/forester on the fort and informed me that they were going to host a clean-up on the river with their camp based at the Leavenworth Riverfront Park under the Centennial Bridge.
Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the state’s western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk the economic collapse of a region important to the U.S. food supply.
Robert D. Woodson, 72, passed away on Saturday, January 7, 2023.
Rachel Marie Hewitt, 43, of McLouth, Kan. passed away on Friday, January 6, 2023, at the University of Kansas Hospital.