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  • Joined: August 30, 2022
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Familiar Four prove NCAA tourney is not ‘Hoosiers’

For all the talk of college basketball’s brave new world, it suddenly looks a lot like the old one. So anyone asking why the same dozen programs are still playing musical chairs at the Final Four every year – Duke, North Carolina, Kansas and Villanova this time around – would do well to recall how Willie Sutton answered the feds when they asked why he kept robbing banks: “Because that’s where the money is.” Grit and gumption are great, but as the Saint Peter’s Peacocks were reminded in a hurry Sunday, they only take you so far.

BAKER GOES BACK-TO-BACK

Tristen Baker wasn’t satisfied with capturing one Class 2A powerlifting 114-pound overall championship. So the Pleasant Ridge junior went back to work, training in the weight room five to six days a week.

Anna Mary (Doege) Landauer

Anna Mary (Doege) Landauer, 103, Basehor, KS, passed away quietly at her home on March 25, 2022. Funeral mass will be 10 am Thursday March 31, 2022, at the Holy Angels Catholic Church, Basehor, KS.

Elizabeth Jean (McBride) Bayless

Elizabeth Jean (McBride) Bayless, 95, passed away, March 25, 2022, in Kansas City, Kan., at home with her family. Betty was born to LeRoy and Elizabeth Beatrice (Barber) McBride on Oct. 3, 1926, in Ottumwa, Iowa. On July 28, 1951, Betty married Robert M. Bayless in Seattle, Wash. They were married for 67 years until he passed away in 2018. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; three brothers, James, John and William; and two sisters, Clara and Mary Lucille.

Mrs. Billie Jo Brown-Monson

“Thank God for Jesus” Our Lovely Mother, Mrs. Billie Jo Brown-Monson, was born on Sunday, January 12, 1930 to Mandy Green-Kennedy Washington and Willie King in Childress.

Rose Marie (Hildebrandt) Cook

On the morning of March 25th, 2022, Rose passed away peacefully at her home in Lansing, Kansas. She was born February 11, 1936, in Leavenworth, Kan., to George Bettis Hildebrandt and Nina Hildebrandt (Johnson). She is survived by her son, Kevin Cook; her daughter, Georgia Brown; as well as her three sisters Georgia Hester, Barbara Johnson, Lauretta Potter; and brother Gary Hildebrandt. Rose will forever be remembered by her beloved grandchildren Lincoln Brown Jr. and Sierra Rose Brown. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, retired Sgt. Maj. Walter C. Cook.; and her brother George Hildebrandt Jr. and sister Mary Williams.

Sister Lynn Casey, SCL

Sister Lynn Casey, 85, a Sister of Charity of Leavenworth (SCL) for 65 years, died on January 31, 2022, at Ross Hall in Leavenworth, Kan. Sister entered the religious community on Aug. 19, 1956, and served in education, public health, and hospital administration. To read her complete obituary, please visit the SCL website at https://www.scls.org/sisterlynncasey/.

Stephanie Oleta Harper

Stephanie Oleta Harper, 56, of Leavenworth, KS passed away March 16, 2022 unexpectedly but with family by her side. Stephanie was born March 20, 1965 to Richard Thomassetti and Sandra Haupt (Wagner).