conner, willis
unknown – unknown
- Name variants
- Willis Conner; Willis Conner, Dexter, Mo. - Informant (cert of Calvin A. Conner); Willis Conner, Dexter, Mo. - Informant (cert of Loyd O. Conner)
- Record count
- 23
- Sources
- county_officials,court_minutes,death_certs
- Places seen
- Stoddard County, Mo.; Vinson, Mo.
- First event date
- 1949-01-21
- Last event date
- 1977-12-29
Timeline — 12 events
- 1977-08-04 Mayor of Dexter quoted in parking meter story on the history of city parking meters.
- 1977-08-09 Mayor of Dexter; received the two checks for the completed Valmac Industries sewer extension and improvements.
- 1977-08-09 Mayor of Dexter; attended and was photographed at the grand opening of the new Culligan Water Conditioning office in Dexter
- 1977-09-26 The District welfare office officially opened in Dexter; Mayor Willis Conner snipped the red ribbon. Group photo includes circuit clerk Charles Corbin, secretary Annis Fortner, state representative Gary Smith, district manager Carol Blue, Gary Dowdy, county court judge Pete Snider, Allen Douglass, Bob Robins, prosecuting attorney Phil Ayers, Robert Hyslop, and Chamber of Commerce member Jack Rodgers.
- 1977-10-07 Ribbon cutting for International Hat Corp 16,800 sq ft addition to hat factory on Market Street; officials included Mayor Willis Conner and Chamber of Commerce members (names partially legible)
- 1977-10-10 Dexter mayor attended International Hat factory expansion ceremonies; quoted praising the company's civic role
- 1977-10-18 The major renovation project at the Dexter Municipal Airport has been stopped, possibly for six to eight months, because of too much moisture in the soil beneath the runway surface; the $450,000 project (Girardeau Contractors) could not meet 98 compaction standards. Mayor Willis Conner said the airport is in 'much better shape' than before the work started.
- 1977-11-14 Mayor Willis Conner proclaimed Nov. 13-19 as American Education Week in Dexter; Miss Carolyn Langley, president of the Community Teachers Association, was present. (Daily Statesman photo by Jim [photographer].)
- 1977-11-18 Mayor of Dexter in 1977; husband of Marie Conner, who greeted Santa's helicopter arrival as city representative.
- 1977-12-01 Mayor Willis Conner attended the Dexter merchants meeting on the downtown renovation plan presented by Harold C. Sperry of General Design (architectural firm, Greenville, Ill.) and pledged the city would 'do its share' in the proposed project with his full cooperation. Special committee named: John Carter, Dr. Bill Dillman, Bill Kerstner, Dorothy Dean (chairman ... Grossman, first name unreadable; one member's name partially illegible). Note: masthead reads 'Daily Statesman-Messenger'.
- 1977-12-09 Dexter mayor who approved the Dec. 14 tractor parade; he and the organizers were to meet with Dexter police chief Jim Teeters to plot the route.
- 1977-12-29 Mayor of Dexter; praised city officials, Chamber of Commerce leaders and police for handling the farmer's strike feed-delivery negotiations involving Valmac Inc. (East Stoddard Street, Dexter) and Monarch Feed Mills.
Dates and spellings are preserved as found in the source records; contradictions are kept, not smoothed over. See the methodology for how this archive handles uncertainty.