Obituaries
Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas

Reba Ferguson
Feb 11, 2008
Reba "Lavone" Ferguson, 77, of Pleasanton,Kansas died Monday, February 11, 2008 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center, Overland Park, Kansas. She was born May 25, 1930 at Mound City, Kansas, the daughter of Harry and Wilda Belle Henderson Bartlett. She graduated from Mound City High School. She married Jack Ferguson on October 29, 1950 at Mound City, Kansas. Lavone was...

Mark Roudebush
Feb 11, 2008
Mark Alan Roudebush, 50, of Linn Valley, Kansas, formerly of Trading Post, Kansas died Monday, February 11, 2008 at the Miami County Medical Center, Paola, Kansas. He was born May 8, 1957 in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Bobby Jay and Audrey Liestman Roudebush. He worked for Tri-Ko in Osawatomie, Kansas. He was preceded in death by his father,...

Mary Price
Feb 1, 2008
Mary Ellen Price, age 90, died Friday February1, 2008 at the North Point Nursing Home in Paola, Kansas. She was born on January 27, 1918 near LaCygne, Kansas the daughter of Rollie and May Johnston Coffel. She married James Robert Price on June 1, 1939 at Kansas City, Missouri. He preceded her in death on October 11, 1990. Also preceding...

Tom Scott
Jan 31, 2008
Roy Thomas "Tom" Scott, 72, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Thursday, January 31, 2008 at his home. He was born December 14, 1935 in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Chester Thomas and Marion Mae Haney Scott. He married Patricia Utterback in 1954 at Kansas City, Missouri. He owned and operated the Mission Food Locker in Mission, Kansas prior to moving...

Matthew Johnson
Jan 29, 2008
Matthew Michael Johnson, 28, of Manhattan, Kansas, formerly of Mound City, Kansas, died Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at Stormont Vail Hospital, Topeka, Kansas. He was born October 17, 1979 in Fort Scott, Kansas, the son of Michael and Mary Malmgren Johnson. He graduated from Jayhawk Linn High School and attended Fort Scott Community College and Kansas State University. He was...

Margaret Hartsock
Jan 26, 2008
Margaret Ellen Hartsock age107, died Saturday, January 26, 2008 at North Point Nursing Center, Paola, Kansas. She was born September 25, 1900 at Deepwater, Missouri, the daughter of Guy and Emma Hagmann Hartsock. She graduated from Columbia University, New York. She later was a professor at a college in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Graveside funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M....

Sharen Schooler
Jan 23, 2008
Sharon Lee Schooler age 67 of Linn Valley, Kansas, died Wednesday January 23, 2008 at the Overland Park Regional Medical Center. She was born March 16, 1940 at Wichita, Kansas the daughter of Joe and Phyllis Earnhardt Lewis. She graduated from Burlingame High School. She was married to Carol "Gene" Schooler on July 3, 1958 in Burlingame, Kansas. She was...

Beatrice Farley
Jan 21, 2008
Mary Aileen Beatrice Farley, born on a farm northwest of Pleasanton, August 30, 1908, passed away in Butler, Missouri on January 21, 2008. She was the daughter of Wiley Fletcher Long and Cora Etta (Peterson Long. Beatrice (known as Bea) grew up on a farm north of Mound City, Kansas, attending Mount Carmel Grade School and graduating from Pleasanton High...

Doris Purvis
Jan 20, 2008
Doris Irene Purvis,passed away Sunday, January 20, 2008 at Palm Grove Healthcare, Beaumont, California She was 93 years old and had been in failing health for the past few years. Doris was born June 29, 1914 in Edna, Kansas to Sidney Harlow Hunziker and Freda Edna Massey Hunziker. They moved shortly thereafter to Drexel, Missouri where she grew to womanhood....

Matthew Murphy
Jan 18, 2008
Matthew Eric Murphy, age 24, of Overland Park, Kansas died Friday January 18, 2008. He was born on November 29, 1983 the son of Pat and Janet Zeigler Murphy. He attended St Agnes Elementary School and Shawnee Mission North High School. He was preceded in death by his father Pat Murphy, paternal grandparents, Wallace and Margaret Murphy, maternal grandparents, Milo...

Scoop Phillips
Jan 11, 2008
F. G. "Scoop" Phillips, 60, Overland Park, Kansas, died Friday, January 11, 2008 at Manor Care in Overland Park. He was born April 25, 1947 in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of F. Gorodess Phillips Jr. and Mary Forshay Phillips. He was employed as a clerk with Kinkos. He was preceded in death by his father. Survivors include his mother,...

Zella Mcclelland
Jan 10, 2008
Zella Mae McClelland, 84, of Hume, Missouri, died Thursday, January 10, 2008 at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, MO. She was born October 11, 1923 at Kansas City, Missouri. She married Joseph McClelland on March 10, 1947. He preceded her in death on June 5, 2007. She was preceded in death also by her parents. Survivors include one sister, Marjorie...

Goldie Andrews
Jan 10, 2008
Goldie May Andrews, 80, of Trading Post, Kansas, died Thursday, January 10, 2008 at The Residencies, Pleasanton, Kansas. She was born April 26, 1927 in Platte City, Missouri, the daughter of Charles Homer and Ida Belle Wisdom Jackson. She married Harold Andrews on March 27, 1948 at Olathe, Kansas. She was baptized in the Marais D'Cygne River. Goldie worked in...

Robert Franklin
Jan 10, 2008
Robert Eugene Franklin, 55, of LaCygne, Kansas died Thursday, January 10, 2008 at his home. He was born October 23, 1952 in Chanute, Kansas, the son of Robert Lee and Frances Ilene Tripp Franklin. He married Cindy Spanier on March 1, 2001. Robert was employed as a heavy equipment operator. He was preceded in death by his parents and one...

Henry Karle
Jan 10, 2008
Henry Joseph "Sonny" Karle, Jr., age 85, passed away Thursday, January 10, 2008 in Mena, Arkansas. He was born in Flushing, New York on October 15, 1922 to the late Henry Joseph Karle, Sr. and the late Marguerite Seaman Karle. He graduated from Great Neck High School in Great Neck, New York, from Winona Teachers College in Winona, Minnesota, and...

Lee Johanning
Jan 8, 2008
Lee "Shirley" Johanning age 78 of Sugar Valley Lakes near Mound City, Kansas died Tuesday January 8, 2008 at her home. Shirley was born on July 27, 1929 at Fort Scott, Kansas the daughter of Warren and Mildred Mosier Anderson. She married Frederick Johanning on August 24, 1947 at Selma, Kansas. She worked for Motorola, in a produce operation and...

William Brown
Jan 7, 2008
William "Bill" Brown, 69, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Monday, January 07, 2008 at Louisburg Health Care, Louisburg, Kansas. He was born July 24, 1938 in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of Harry and Peryilie Kelley Brown. He was preceded in death by his parents, five brothers, Fred, Clinton, Andy, Joe and Clifford Brown and three sisters, Alma Sanders, Evelyn Marmon...

Martha Browning
Jan 6, 2008
Martha "Midge" Browning, 81, of Arma, Kansas, died Sunday, January 6, 2007 at Landmark Hospital, Joplin, Missouri. She was born December 4, 1926 in Council Grove, Kansas, the daughter of Alva and Lillian Strong Wilkerson. She married Dale W. Browning on February 28, 1948. He preceded her in death on February 22, 2002. Martha retired from Craw-Kan Telephone Company. She...

Rita Sisson
Jan 4, 2008
Rita West Sisson was born near Farlinville, Kansas on December 28, 1912 to Benjamin and Olive Silsby West. She graduated with honors from Mound City High School and subsequently received her Master of Science degree in education from Kansas State College of Pittsburg. She married Harry Sisson, son of George and Goldie Sisson, of the Wall Street Community, in 1938....

Mabel Ward
Jan 3, 2008
Mabel Ellen Ward a longtime Pleasanton resident passed away January 3, 2008 at Mercy Health Center Fort Scott, Kansas following a short illness. She was born on April 10, 1921 the daughter of Roy and Ethel Bryan Main in rural LaCygne, Kansas. Mabel graduated from Prescott High School and Fort Scott Community College. She then taught school until marrying Howard...
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