Today's obituaries (Observer-Reporter)

Joseph J. “Hoppy” Ball, 76, of Ellsworth, died Tuesday, June 23, 2009, in Washington Hospital. He was born May 9, 1933, in Bentleyville, a son of Joseph and Beatrice Drozdik Ball.

Miss Prissy' hunts (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

According to her mother, there were no signs of it when her daughter was a child growing up in Gary, or as a bookish student at Harding after moving to Fort Wayne, but Charita Moses - now Charita Niedermeyer - was born to be an outdoorswoman. Photo caption: Charita Niedermeyer and her husband, Andrew, share their northeast-side home with Buddy, a black Lab, and Sam, a Brittany spaniel. ...

Everybody Needs An Uncle Harold (The Chattanoogan)

My Mom comes from a big family, a total of eight kids, six sisters and two brothers. I love them all and each is special in his or her own way. But I know they’ll all understand when I say that Uncle Harold holds a special place on my family tree.

Picking the right pup pays off (Bowling Green Daily News)

Ask 10 different quail hunters how to pick a bird pup, and you’ll most likely walk away with 10 different answers.

Start training your dog early for best results (The Daily Item)

The day was sunny, warm and breezy. There wasn't a heavy wind, but just enough to keep the air moving -- just enough to help an eight-week-old Brittany puppy to use his small, still-developing nose to catch the scent of a cluster of pheasant feathers lying nearby on the ground.