Hawley Receives Local Records Volunteer Award from
the Friends of the Missouri State Archives

Jefferson City, Mo. —– Secretary of State Denny Hoskins and the Friends of the Missouri State Archives are happy to announce the recipient of the 2026 Local Records Volunteer Award.

The Friends of the Missouri State Archives annually present this as one of three awards to citizen volunteers who exhibit a particularly strong commitment to the work of the Missouri State Archives and the Local Records section. The Lynda Stubblefield Award is made to honor an in-house Archives volunteer, this year’s recipient is Andrea Beck from Cole County; the e-Volunteer Award recipient is Claudia Hoke from Jackson County; and the Local Records Volunteer Award recipient is Janet Hawley from Nodaway County.

A Nodaway County native originally hailing from Barnard, Janet is a well-known Nodaway County genealogist and historian having published several books on historical people, places and events that have occurred in Nodaway County. Ms. Hawley has provided more than 1,700 hours to the Nodaway County Circuit Court Project, preparing case files from the 1800s for digitization and preservation. Her cheerful disposition, hard work and “can do” attitude not only make her an efficient and a productive volunteer she is a pleasure to work with and be around! She claims that working to preserve the circuit court case files is “the best job I have ever had.”

The Friends of the Missouri State Archives announced Hawley as this year’s Local Records Volunteer Award recipient at their 2026 annual meeting, held Saturday, June 13, 2026, at the James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center in Jefferson City.

For more information about the Friends of the Missouri State Archives, visit https://friendsofmsa.org/awards/index.php.

 

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