Obituaries
Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas
Nellie James
Jul 21, 2008
Nellie May St. James, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Monday, July 21, 2008 at Metropolitan Hospice, Marietta, Georgia. She was born November 5, 1910 in Pleasanton, Kansas, the daughter of Jack and Anna Staton. She married John St. James on January 29, 1928. He preceded her in death on May 20, 1995. She was a member of the First Christian Church...
Hilda White
Jul 21, 2008
Hilda Joyce White, 76, of Mapleton, Kansas died Monday, July 21, 2008 at Mound City, Kansas. She was born November 7, 1931 in Pocahontas, Arkansas, the daughter of Vernie and Mary Bryant. She worked as a bookkeeper, had owned and operated the Village Inn Café in Mound City, and also cooked for the USD #346 school. She married Wayne White...
Jack Jennings
Jul 19, 2008
Jack Jennings, age 73, of Pleasanton, Kansas passed away Saturday July 19, 2008 at the Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kansas. He was born July 3, 1935 in rural Linn County south east of Pleasanton, Kansas, the son of Oliver and Elva Jackson Jennings. He Married Geneva Purdy on November 23, 1957 in Pleasanton, Kansas. He worked for Smith-Miller, and...
Myrtle Clintsmith
Jul 7, 2008
Myrtle Mae Clinesmith, 90, of Springfield, Missouri, formerly of Centerville, Kansas, died July 7, 2008 in Springfield. She was born February 20, 1918 in Wellman, Iowa, the daughter of John W. and Grace E. Bassett Henn. She married Wayne A. Clinesmith on October 22, 1952 in California. She was a 1935 graduate of Montrose High School in Montrose, Iowa and...
Eugene Cox
Jul 7, 2008
Eugene Cox, 68, of Blue Mound, Kansas died Monday, July 7, 2008 at his home. He was born May 14, 1940 in Fort Scott, Kansas, the son of Maurice and Frances Hall Cox. He graduated from Blue Mound High School and attended Fort Scott Community College. Eugene was a farmer and stockman. He was a member of the Blue Mound...
Bessie Ward
Jul 5, 2008
Bessie Margaret Ward, 95, of Pleasanton, Kansas died Saturday, July 5, 2008 at Miami County Medical Center, Paola, Kansas. She was born March 4, 1913 in Prescott, Kansas, the daughter of Charley and Emma Lowdenback Meech. She married William "Bill" Ward on November 22, 1936 at Harrisonville, Missouri. He preceded her in death in 1969. Bessie worked as a seamstress...
Kit Leasure Jr.
Jul 3, 2008
Kit Carson Leasure Jr, 91, of LaCygne, Kansas, died Thursday, July 3, 2008 at his home. He was born October 23, 1916 on the Leasure homestead in Linn County, one of nine children born to Kit Carson Leasure Sr. and Sarah Maude (Patterson) Leasure. He attended Prairie Home Grade School and then LaCygne Rural High School where he graduated in...
Berdine Partney
Jun 30, 2008
Berdine Eloise Partney, 86, Garnett, Ks, died at Golden Heights Living Center on June 30, 2008. She was born on August 16, 1921 and raised on the family farm near Mapleton, Kansas, the daughter of Frank and Lola McCollam. She was baptized on October 1929 and was a life long member of the Community of Christ Church. She graduated from...
Terry Brandl
Jun 26, 2008
Terry Lynne Brandl, age 54, Pleasanton, Kansas died Thursday June 26, 2008 at Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. She was born on October 29, 1953 at Butler, Missouri the daughter of Ira and Darlene O'Rear Conner. She worked for Farmers Insurance for twenty plus years. She married Joseph Brandl on February 20, 1981 at Butler, Missouri. Terry was...
Roy Gillespie
Jun 25, 2008
Roy Dean Gillespie, 48, of Pleasanton, Kansas, went to meet the Lord on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. He was born January 14, 1960 in Ridgeway, Missouri, the son of Darryl and Sharion Baker Gillespie. He was employed as a computer systems troubleshooter for LD&B and had worked for Black & Veatch and had also managed a Diamond Shamrock Station in...
Lillian Ferguson
Jun 22, 2008
Lillian Vivian Ferguson, age 89, loving wife and mother, peacefully passed away on Sunday, June 22, 2008, at her home in LaCygne, Kansas. Vivian was born April 11, 1919, to William Virgil Girten and Elizabeth Ann Gough in Kansas City, Kansas. She was baptized at St. Thomas the Apostle in Kansas City, Kansas on April 20, 1919. She graduated from...
Rozella Mallory
Jun 20, 2008
Rozella A. Mallory, 89, of Ottawa, Kansas, formerly of Prescott, Kansas died Friday, June 20, 2008 at the Plaza Assisted Living in Ottawa, Kansas. She was born July 11, 1919 in Nebraska, the daughter of Elmer and Florence Wilson Mallory. She worked as a waitress until retirement then took care of her parents until their death. Also preceding her in...
Kenneth Spratt
Jun 18, 2008
Kenneth E. Spratt, 98, of Hume, Missouri, died Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at the Prescott Country View Nursing Home, Prescott, Kansas. He was born June 10,1 910 in Drexel, Missouri, the son of Walter and Nancy Evans Spratt. He married Minnie E. McKibben on November 10, 1929 at Hume, Missouri. She preceded him in death on July 21, 2001. He...
Carrie Ross
Jun 18, 2008
Carrie Aldine Ross, 76, of Gardner, Kansas, formerly of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at the Olathe Medical Center, Olathe, Kansas. She was born November 30, 1931 in Pleasanton, Kansas, the daughter of William and Margaret Elkington New. She married James C. Ross on November 2, 1948. He preceded her in death on September 10, 2003. Carrie had...
Robert Harper
Jun 12, 2008
Robert W. Harper, 87, of Overland Park, Kansas died Thursday, June 12, 2008 at Kansas City Hospice House, Kansas City, Missouri. He was born July 29, 1920 in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of William R. and Lois Glenn Harper. Survivors include three sisters, Helen Nelson, Irene Flattery & Ruth Taylor and one brother, Glenn Harper. Mr. Harper was cremated....
Roy Umphenour
Jun 9, 2008
Roy Elsworth Umphenour, 99, of Fort Scott, Kansas, died Monday, June 9, 2008 at his home. He was born October 18, 1908 at Pleasanton, Kansas, the son of Harry Jacob and Adah Staton Umphenour. He married Lottie Berneice Kleitz on June 28, 1934. She preceded him in death on October 14, 1994. Roy was a farmer, stockman and cattle trader....
Kathy Davidson
Jun 8, 2008
Kathy Lynn Davidson, 51, of Hume, Missouri, died Sunday, June 8, 2008 at her home. She was born October 17, 1956 in Monmouth, Illinois, the daughter of Earl Thomas and Myrtle Pearl Russell Heatherly. She married Sam Davidson on September 26, 1985. He preceded her in death on September 18, 2004. Kathy was a member of Single Action Shooters Society...
Morris Allen
Jun 6, 2008
Morris Allen age 79, formerly of Linn County, currently of Flemington, Missouri died Friday June 6 at St John's in Springfield, Missouri. Morris was born June 28, 1928 near Newkirk, Oklahoma, the firstborn of McKinley Allen and Inez Beatrice (Adams) Allen. The family later moved to a farm near Mound City, Kansas. He grew up helping his father on that...
Wanda Staton
Jun 3, 2008
Wanda Gale Staton, 74, of Pleasanton, Kansas died Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at Prescott Countryview Nursing Home, Prescott, Kansas. She was born March 4, 1934 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, the sixth of eight children born to Foster and Jemmie Easley Weems. She lived in Eureka Springs until the age of 2, when her family moved to Pleasanton, Kansas. On March...
Oakley Albright
May 31, 2008
Oakley Emmett Albright, age 82 of LaCygne, Kansas passed away May 31, 2008 at the Olathe Medical Center. He was born March 4, 1926 in York, Nebraska the son of Loyd Alvin and Viola Susan Shook Albright. Oakley married Joann Little October 10, 1954 in Delaware, Oklahoma. Oakley graduated in Pineville, Missouri and served in the US Navy as a...
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