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

Chester Carpenter
Jan 8, 2007
Chester E. Carpenter, age 90, LaCygne, Kansas died Monday January 8, 2007 at the Louisburg Care Center. He was born on May 24, 1916 in LaCygne the son of Chester and Clara Cole Carpenter. While employed he worked for Boeing Aircraft, Westinghouse, custodian at the LaCygne Grade School and finally in security at the Kansas City Power & Light generating...

Alice Holroyd
Jan 6, 2007
Alice Ellen Holroyd, 86, of Mound City, Kansas, died Saturday, January 6, 2007 at Los Alamitos Medical Center. She was born April 20, 1921 in Hiawatha, Kansas, the daughter of William and Barbara Drake Thorp. She moved with her family to Nebraska and later back to Kansas City, where she attended John Fiske Grade School and Rosedale High School. She...

Vivian Stroup
Jan 3, 2007
Vivian Louise Stroup, 80, Fontana, Kansas died Wednesday January 3, 2007 at the Olathe Medical Center. She was born July 16, 1926 in Lindsborg, Kansas the daughter of William and Hilma Spongberg Boettcher. She attended Bethany College in Lindsborg, and was a diploma graduate of the Trinity Lutheran Hospital School of Nusing in 1948. Vivian worked as a nurse for...

William Bowen
Dec 30, 2006
William Washington Bowen, 45, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Saturday, December 30, 2006. He was born July 22, 1961 in Thomasville, Georgia, the son of Jack and Gloria Davis Bowen. He was preceded in death by one brother, Donald Aubery Jenkins and one step brother, J. Neil Hutchison. Survivors include his mother and stepfather, Gloria and Rodney Hutchison of Evansville, Indiana;...

Della Leonard
Dec 30, 2006
Della Mae Leonard, 75, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Saturday, December 30, 2006 at Longview, Texas. She was born July 20, 1931 at Trading Post, Kansas, the daughter of Charles "Poppy" Purdy and Leola Masters Purdy. She was a graduate of Pleasanton High School and worked as a cook for several restaurants. She married Donald Yager in 1950. He preceded her...

Gary Carpenter
Dec 23, 2006
Gary E. Carpenter age 67 of LaCygne, Kansas died Saturday December 23, 2006 at St Luke's Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born in LaCygne, Kansas on July 10, 1939 the son of Chester and Ruby Phalen Carpenter. He graduated from Pleasanton High School and was a retired autoworker for Ford Motor Company. He was a member of...

Betty Burrous
Dec 17, 2006
Betty A. Burrous, age 81 of Amsterdam, Missouri died Sunday December 17, 2006 at the Adrian Manor. She was born August 25, 1925 at Noel, Missouri the daughter of William D. and Monte M. McDonald Keim. Betty worked as a waitress and most recently as a Tupperware dealer. She married Robert Burrous on July 21, 1945. He preceded her in...

Rosalie Baugh
Dec 16, 2006
Rosalie Baugh, age 72, of Pleasanton, Kansas passed away Saturday, December 16, 2006 at St. Joseph Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Rosalie was born November 10, 1934 in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from Prescott High School in 1952. On April 5, 1953 Rosalie was united in marriage to Clinton Baugh at her mother's home in Pleasanton, Kansas. Rosalie...

Thomas Keough
Dec 10, 2006
Thomas S. Keough, age 95, of Amsterdam, Missouri died Sunday December 10, 2006 at Adrian Manor. He was born in Ankly, Iowa the son of Thomas and Loretta Keough. He put himself through trade school; learning the trade of electric motor rewinding. He married Eleanor Preston Lang on July 18, 1942. They had several residences until 1957; at which time...

Jessie Crawford
Dec 5, 2006
Jessie Evelyn Crawford age 81 of LaCygne, Kansas died Tuesday December 5, 2006. She was born at Pollock, Missouri on June 14, 1925 the daughter of William and Edith Baumgardner Rodgers. She worked as a nurses aid at Swan Manor before retirement. She was preceded in death by her husband James Crawford, a son, Guy Vance Crawford, a grandson, Eric...

Hazel Farmer
Dec 1, 2006
Hazel Farmer, age 71 of La Cygne, Kansas passed away Friday, December 1, 2006 at her home. She was born October 16, 1935 in Hoffman, Oklahoma the daughter of Sterling Brown Herriman, III and Elsie Watts. She married Lonnie Farmer on June 28, 1952 in Eufaula, Oklahoma. They celebrated 54 years together. In addition to being a mother and housewife,...

Dixie Cosens
Nov 30, 2006
Dixie Lee Cousens, age 57 of La Cygne, Kansas passed away Thursday, November 30 2006 at her home. She was born May 27, 1949 the daughter of Ralph Leon Stuteville and Lola DeWeese Stuteville. She married Jeff Cousens on June 27, 1988. In addition to being a wife and mother, she was the head cook at Lifestyles of Blackhawk, an...

Richard Roll
Nov 28, 2006
RICHARD L. ROLL Richard Leroy Roll, 77, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Tuesday, November 28, 2006. He was born May 1, 1929 in Malta Bend, Missouri, the son of Kelly and Pauline Anders Roll. He married Norma Jean Sears on October 17, 1953 at Clinton, Missouri. Richard was employed as an ironworker prior to his retirement. He was a veteran, serving...

Marjorie Coons
Nov 28, 2006
Marjorie May Coons was born in Kansas City, Missouri on July 12, 1913 the daughter of Frederick and Bell May Roberts Mitchell. She passed away on November 28, 2006 in the Miller County Nursing Home. She was a homemaker most of her life but did work in various places during her working life. She loved to cook, fish, and camp...

Mildred Jaeger
Nov 28, 2006
MILDRED JAEGER Mildred Huff Jaeger, 85, passed away November 28th at the Kansas Veterans Home in Winfield, Kansas. Mildred was born August 8th, 1921 at Prescott, Kansas to George W. and Violet Putnam Huff. Mildred was preceded in death by her parents a brother, Lloyd G. Huff, and a grand daughter Nicole Jaeger. Mildred graduated from Mound City High School...

Alberta Stump
Nov 26, 2006
ALBERTA STUMP Francelene "Alberta Stump", 80, of Blue Mound, Kansas, died Sunday, November 26, 2006 at St. Francis Hospital, Wichita, Kansas. She was born April 5, 1926 in Everest, Kansas the daughter of Abraham and Gladys Cohoon Torkelson. She graduated from Effingham High School and Baker University. She married Samuel Stump on August 21, 1949 at Baldwin City, Kansas. Alberta...

Howard Stutes
Nov 22, 2006
Howard Hugh Stutes age 90 Pleasanton, Kansas died Wednesday November 22, 2006 at the Prescott Country View. He was born at Burlington, Kansas on November 10, 1916 the son of Oscar and Sadie Keith Stutes. Howard lived in the Pleasanton area until joining the Army and serving in World War II. He married Irma Garrison in 1947. She preceded him...

George Marcum Jr.
Nov 21, 2006
George W. Marcum Jr., 72, of Mound City, Kansas, died Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at Olathe Medical Center, Olathe, Kansas. He was born March 1, 1934 in Wyandotte County, Kansas. He married Betty Jane Dallas on October 31, 1959 in St. Louis, Missouri. George had retired from General Tire Company where he was an operating supervisor. He then worked as...

Glenn Mcgee
Nov 20, 2006
Glenn Edison McGee, age 96 died quietly Monday, November 20, 2006 at the Prescott Country View Nursing Home. He was born September 24, 1910 at Blue Mound, Kansas, the son of James Edison and Lila Addie Paddock McGee. He attended Washington country school and Blue Mound High School where he graduated in 1927 in three years. He accepted the Lord...

Janet Clay
Nov 9, 2006
JANET CLAY Janet Lou Clay, 49, of Burlington, Kansas, died Thursday, November 9, 2006 at Olathe, Kansas. She was born January 13, 1957 at Olathe, Kansas, the daughter of Henry and Ivah Dean Clay. She was a graduate of Desoto High School. Janet had been employed as a caregiver with Hartford, Inc. She was preceded in death by her parents;...
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