Stories from Saturday, July 18, 2009

Ruth (Mrs. Morris) Roark, 86, of Westphalia, passed away Friday, July 17, 2009, at St. Vincent's Hospital in Indianapolis. She was born in Sandborn, on March 28, 1923, to Edward H. "Duke" and Pearl A. (Hagemeier) Stremming. On May 24, 1947, she married Leonard Morris Roark...

Flags in Worthington were lowered to half-staff on Saturday in honor of a hometown hero who has been killed in Iraq. The Greene County Daily World has received confirmation that Greene County native William F. "Sonny" Hinchman was killed when a helicopter went down near Baghdad...