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

Earnest Mcgee
Dec 29, 2007
Earnest Earl McGee, age 80, Mound City, Kansas died Saturday December 29, 2007 at the Olathe Medical Center. He was born at Blue Mound, Kansas on September 11, 1927 the son of Warren and Elsie Morrell McGee. He graduated from Blue Mound High School and married LaVerne Lamb on June 27, 1948 in the Wall Street Church. Memberships include the...

Amber Wilson
Dec 29, 2007
2007 Neosho Memorial Hospital. She was born at Freeburg, Illinois on August 27, 1922 the daughter of Ernest and Ella Ebel Bauer Kriegeskotte. She married Loren Wilson on November 13, 1945 at Carthage, Missouri. Together they owned and operated Wilson Service in Blue Mound. Amber was a member of the Blue Mound Federated Church and Missionary Society, the Legion Auxillary,...

William Rhodes
Dec 28, 2007
William Major Rhodes, 63, of Mound City, Kansas, died Friday, December 28, 2007, doing what he loved best, goose hunting. He was born July 28, 1944 in Shawnee, Kansas, the son of William and Ida Pearl Howard Rhodes. He graduated from Shawnee Mission North High School. Bill owned and operated the Capitol Body shop in Mound City. He had a...

Bobby Story
Dec 28, 2007
Bobby Dean Story, 81, of Mound City, Kansas, died Friday, December 28, 2007 at Life Care Center, Osawatomie, Kansas. He was born July 20, 1926 at Crescent, Oklahoma, the son of Samuel and LoRene Wright Story. He was married to Dorothy Wools on November 23, 1949 at Garnett, Kansas. Bobby was a farmer and had also worked for the City...

Edward Shortall
Dec 27, 2007
Edward F. Shortall, 84, of Fontana, Kansas, died December 27, 2007 at his home. He was born September 11, 1923 in Perry, Kansas, the son of Martin and Catherine Doyle Shortall. He moved to Linn County in 1932 and graduated from Pleasanton High School with the class of 1941. He also attended St. Benedict's College for one year. The family...

Seth Swisher
Dec 26, 2007
Seth Sherman Swisher age 47 of LaCygne, Kansas died Wednesday December 26, 2007 at St Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born on October 19, 1960 the son of Robert and Josephine Jayne Swisher. He was preceded in death by his mother. He is survived by his father Robert of LaCygne, a son Shawn Swisher and wife Ashley...

Ida Sisson
Dec 25, 2007
Ida Paddock Sisson, 91, of Denison, Texas, formerly of Mound City, Kansas, died December 25, 2007 at her daughter's home in Denison. She was born September 14, 1916 in Linn County, Kansas, the daughter of L. Wilbur and Zelda Stites Dunavan. She married Loren Paddock August 7, 1937. He preceded her in death on April 10, 1990. She later married...

Michael Avery
Dec 24, 2007
Michael Earl Avery, 45, of Shawnee Mission, Kansas, formerly of Prescott, Kansas, died December 24, 2007. He was born July 9, 1962 in Fort Scott, Kansas, the son of Earl and Mary Secrest Avery. He was a graduate of Jayhawk Linn High School and attended Pittsburg State University. He was employed with Mr. Mat Carpet Cleaning. Michael was preceded in...

Lawrence Clark
Dec 24, 2007
Lawrence "Willis" Clark age 88, of Mound City, Kansas died Monday December 24, 2007 at the Prescott Country View. He was born on August 22, 1919 the son of Ernest Daniel and Anna Ellen Cox Clark. Willis married Wilma West on August 22, 1943. She preceded him in death on August 11, 2005. He worked as a farmer and a...

Frances Hanan
Dec 21, 2007
Frances Lee Hanan, 62, of Mound City, Kansas, died Friday, December 21, 2007 at American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, Kansas City, Missouri. She was born December 28, 1944 in LaGrange Arkansas. She married Alfred Hanan on September 19, 1962 at Kansas City, Kansas. She retired from Boeing and she and her husband RV'd for several years before moving to Sugar...

Mary Spencer
Dec 19, 2007
Mary Florence Spencer, 82, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at Mercy Hospital, Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born March 26, 1925 the daughter of Harry and Vetra Bealer Paxtono. Her mother died in childbirth and Mary was raised by James and Ethel Austin. She married Bernard Charles Spencer on March 14, 1948 in Independence, Missouri. He preceded...

Bill Mcclintic
Dec 19, 2007
Bill McClintic, 80, of LaCygne, Kansas, died Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at his home. He was born June 28, 1927 in Ottawa, Kansas, the son of William and Esther Rogers McClintic. He married Edith Pearl Eastwood Long on November 19, 1994. Billie was a veteran of WWII, serving with the United States Navy. He was employed as a manager in...

Melvin Smith
Dec 15, 2007
Melvin Smith, age 77, of Blue Mound, Kansas died Saturday December 15, 2007 at the Indian Meadows Nursing Home in Overland Park Kansas. He was born on January 23, 1930 in Blue Mound, Kansas, the son of Richard and Louisa Scobee Smith. He Graduated from Blue Mound High School and attended Allen County Community College. He was a veteran of...

Carrie Klee
Dec 14, 2007
Carrie L. Klee, age 34, of Lincoln, Nebraska and formerly of Beatrice and Steele City, Nebraska died on Friday December 14, 2007 at the Ambassador in Lincoln. She was born on July 31, 1973 at Fairbury, Nebraska and attended Fairbury Elementary and Fairbury Junior High Schools. She graduated from Beatrice High School in 1991 where she had been a trainer...

Harold Vankirk
Dec 4, 2007
Harold Leon VanKirk, 82, of Prescott, Kansas, died Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at St. Joseph Health Center, Kansas City, Missouri. He was born March 30, 1925 at Worland, Missouri, the son of Veteran and Loraine Moslander. Harold's father, Veteran died when Harold was five years old. His mother married Bart Lloyd who raised him. Harold worked as an equipment operator...

Johnny Cox
Dec 1, 2007
Johnny R. Cox, 56, of Lincoln, Missouri, died Saturday, December 1, 2007 near Warrensburg, Missouri. He was born December 28, 1950 in Paola, Kansas, the son of Robert and Virginia Staton Cox. He grew up in Odessa and graduated from Odessa High School, Class of 1968. He enlisted in the United States Army on April 28, 1969 and served in...

Abrianna Roberts
Nov 24, 2007
Abrianna Nycole Roberts age two years eleven months of Cleveland, Missouri, died Saturday November 24, 2007 at the St Joseph Health Center. Abrianna was born on December 22, 2004 in Merriam, Kansas. She was preceded in death by her grandfather Walter John Conrad Roberts. She is survived by her mother Tara Roberts and Stephen Moylan of the home, grandparents; Wes...

Donald Michael
Nov 16, 2007
Donald E. "Frog" Michael, age 60, of Mound City, Kansas died Friday November 16, 2007 at Mercy Health System in Ft Scott, Kansas. He was born on September 11, 1947 in Topeka, Kansas the son of Carl E. and Mildred E. Cowan Michael. His most recent employment was with the Sugar Valley Nursing Home and later Prescott Country View. He...

Shirley Blevins
Nov 15, 2007
Shirley Jean Blevins, 73, of Pleasanton, Kansas died Friday, November 16, 2007 at her home. She was born November 10, 1934 in Weir, Kansas the daughter of Carl and Nell Lucas Herring. She graduated from Pleasanton High School and worked as a secretary at the school for a number of years. She was also co-owner of the Western Auto Store...

Blanche Paul
Nov 13, 2007
Blanche Gerardine Paul, 84, of LaCygne, Kansas died Tuesday November 13, 2007 at her home in LaCygne. She was born on January 25, 1923 in West Orange, New Jersey the daughter of Raymond J. and Florence Prendergast Brown. She worked as a medical transcriber and secretary. She was married to Charles Paul on January 5, 1946. Blanche and Charles moved...
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