Darrel Shoemaker at the razing of the Green Parrot tavern in Galena, Kansas (screenshot, YouTube)

Ron Reed Smith seems to be a 1974 Galena High (Kansas) grad who enjoys fictionalizing Galena people and places. Amen to him.

After writing technical documents and monthly reports during a 38-year career in the aerospace industry, Ron Reed Smith retired and found time to do the type of writing he enjoys the most. He is an award-winning writer of short stories and novella-length manuscripts, using a style that is considered wholesome and down-to-earth. He prefers to interject a bit of humor, when it's appropriate, and will create a surprise ending when the story's plot allows for it. His most recent work has included a cozy mystery (Aunt Bev's Ghost) and a historical fiction piece that features people and events from his own hometown (Staffleback Gold).

Mr. Smith is a member of the Ozarks Writers' League and has served as president of the Joplin Writers' Guild.

Currently a resident of Southwest Missouri, Mr. Smith also enjoys gardening and playing golf.

The Buck Owens Show, Oklahoma City, Okla., Episode #42, March 27, 1967

Bob Morris

Faye Harden

Wayne ("The Baby Buckaroo") Wilson

 Wynn's Wife Delores Benefit Show

 

An F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron 213, lands on the flight deck of the world's largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), while operating in support of Operation Epic Fury on March 2, 2026 in the Mediterranean Sea. (U.S. Navy via Getty Images)

 CUZ...

Mark Louis Hudson, son of Marcel and Helen (Ford) Hudson

  An esteemed savovant* of life's foibles and triumphs

*Don't bother trying to look it up. Archaic Context: In older French and English texts, spellings like "savosant" or "savovant" sometimes appear as phonetic or regional variations used to describe a scholar, distinguished scientist, or someone with profound wisdom.

 Galena High 1904

Actress Ida Lupino was director for the movie about Joplin's murderous Bill Cook. Female movie directors were a rarity in the 1950s.

 Martin home at 2209 Short Street is totally gone

 Bringing Home the Fish

   Here in the Hills

 Linda Fern Waldrop was my aunt Fern's daughter.

         Asheville Citizen-Times Asheville, North Carolina, 11 Jun 1959, Thu • Page 37

This is a photo my maternal grandmother, Fern (Ford) Morey had kept of her and John. It was taken around 1968. She noted on the back that John was 38 years, and Fern was 40 years when the photo was taken. -- Melinda Bandy

 

                                "Vital Records," San Bernardino Sun, January 18, 1967, Page 32

  TRONA - Assets of the Searles Lake Federal Credit Union have grown to 6, 799, 437, as reported at the annual meeting last week. This is about $650,000 more than the previous year. The credit union is open to any Searles Valley resident and had 3,103 shareholder accounts as of the end of 1973. Annette Pastrone and Walter Martin were re-elected to the Union's board of directors. Max Rosen was reelected to the credit committee by the 30 shareholders who attended the meeting. Meetings are open to all shareholders. Shareholders received $341,138 in dividends last year, six per cent quarterly.

Dan Mullin told those at the meeting about the new Microfiche machines being installed to reduce the amount of paper used. The machines take photographs in reduced size of daily-work records and when they are needed to be viewed, the machines enlarge them for the personnel. Two machines will be used so that two employes may work with different sets of records at the same time. The microfilm storage saves space as well as paper. After the annual meeting the board met and elected the following officers: Odell Raker, president; Walter Martin, vice president; Annette Pastrone, secretary; and C. C. Jones, treasurer. Shareholders have been mailed their annual statements of interest paid and dividends received as well as balances in their accounts.

"Credit Union lists increased assets," San Bernardino Sun, January 27, 1974, Page 70

 

KIT SMITH -- Bill Woods, producer and promoter