SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – Missouri is now home to 18 new American citizens from 13 countries.
The new citizens took the Oath of Allegiance at the Darr Agricultural Center in Springfield, administered by federal Judge Douglas Harpool.
This was not the first time Blanca Rodriguez Mallonee served as guest speaker at a naturalization ceremony. She moved with her family from Mexico to Branson in the 1980s to work in the hotel industry…