Obituaries
Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas
Elonzo Turpen
Sep 11, 2005
Elonzo "Lonnie" Turpen, 75, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Sunday, September 11, 2005 at Life Care Center, Osawatomie, Kansas. He was born September 14, 1928 in Foster, Missouri, the son of Bueal A. and Anna Lee Wisdom Turpen. He married Ruby McBride on June 1, 1945 at Mound City, Kansas. Lonnie reconditioned used cars for Kipper Chevrolet and Cox Motors, prior...
Jessica Young
Sep 10, 2005
Jessica Dee Young, 29, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Saturday, September 10, 2005 at Mercy Health Systems, Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born November 12, 1975 in Fort Hood, Texas, the daughter of Bobbie Joe and Mary Ann Britt Young. She was a cashier at Wal-Mart, and had received her CNA and CMA. Jessica attended the First Baptist Church of Pleasanton....
Ola Yager
Aug 20, 2005
Ola Yager, 88, of Prescott, KS died Saturday, August 20, 2005 at the Prescott Countryview Nursing Home. She was born December 31, 1916 near Hammond, Kansas, the daughter of Jake and Stella King Turley. She married Charles Yager on August 4, 1934. He preceded her in death on July 1, 1995. She spent most of her life on the farm...
Robert Plumb
Aug 19, 2005
ROBERT PLUMB Robert Spencer Plumb, 82, of Buena Vista, Colorado, formerly of Overland Park, Kansas. died August 19, 2005 at Buena Vista, Colorado. He was born November 16, 1923 in Paullina, Iowa, the son of Spencer and Florence Brown Plumb. He married Marilyn Crandall in 1944 at Bloomington, Illinois. He was a veteran of World War II, serving with the...
Paul Creager
Aug 19, 2005
Paul Kenneth Creager, 98, of Prescott, Kansas, died Friday, August 19, 2005 at Prescott Countryview Nursing Home. He was born May 26, 1907 in LaCygne, Kansas, the son of John and Hattie Lopeman Creager. He taught school in the area schools for a number of years. Paul married Opal Smith on October 25, 1929. She preceded him in death on...
Mildred Shaffer
Aug 18, 2005
Mildred Louise Kauffman Shaffer died August 18, 2005 at Antelope Valley Hospital, Lancaster, California. She was born July 13, 1919 on a farm near Amsterdam, Missouri, the daughter of Charlie & Effie Lewis Kauffman. She graduated from High School in 1937 and attended one year of Business School in Sedalia, Missouri. She worked in Kansas City, Missouri for Dills-Monarch United...
Robert Miller
Aug 11, 2005
Robert Miller of Linn Valley, KS was born November 10, 1930 near Garnett, KS, the youngest of 6 children. He passed away following a long illness on August 11, 2005. He was the son of Frank and Hazel Williamson Miller. Bob lived in and around Garnett most of his life graduating from Garnett High School in 1948. He enlisted in...
Kenneth Landers
Aug 8, 2005
Kenneth Melvin Landers, 84, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Monday, August 8, 2005 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, Kansas. He was born June 22, 1921 in Mound City, Kansas, the son of Melvin and Ada Smith Landers. Kenneth was a veteran of World War II, serving with the United States Army. He was a member of American Legion of Prescott,...
Manetta Horton
Aug 8, 2005
August 8, 2005. She was born July 19, 1911 at Redfield, Kansas, the daughter of Carl Oscar and Margaret Charlton Peterson. The family moved to Iola, Kansas where she graduated in 1929. She married Harry Edward Horton on July 20, 1934. Harry died July 10, 1978. She was a member of the Hume Methodist Church, a 69 year member of...
William Davis
Jul 23, 2005
William R. Davis, 77, of Pleasanton, KS, died Saturday, July 23, 2005 at his home in Pleasanton. He was born June 1, 1928, at Kansas City, Mo, the son of Willie and Cora Elizabeth Reynolds Davis. He began working at an early age at a gas station, and later at Mt. Moriah Cemetery and finally at Central Armature Co. He...
Brenda Stevens
Jul 21, 2005
Brenda Stevens age 45 of Olathe, Kansas formerly of Pleasanton, Kansas died Thursday July 21, 2005 at the Olathe Medical Center. She was born on February 22, 1960 at Kansas City, Missouri the daughter of Paul and Lydia Jo New Kurtz. She was baptized at the Pleasanton Baptist Church and recently attended the New Life Pentecostal Church. She married Virgil...
Carrie Mcgrew
Jul 21, 2005
Carrie Evalena McGrew, age 95, of Mound City, KS, died Thursday, July 21, 2005 at the Country View Nursing Home, Prescott, Kansas. She was born January 12, 1910 at Pleasanton, Kansas to Otis H. and Evalena May Phillips Smith. Carrie's mother passed away at child birth. Her grandmother, Libbie Wakefield and Aunt Lidia Phillips moved in with her father to...
Donald Pease
Jul 15, 2005
Donald M. Pease, 69, of Linn Valley, Kansas, passed away Friday, July 15, 2005 at his home. He was born February 3, 1936 in LaCygne, Kansas, the son of Glenn Pease and Alice Lee Pease. He attended Kansas State University earning a BS in Industrial Engineering and then attended graduate school in Chicago while working for Western Electric. He served...
Cleda Patterson
Jun 29, 2005
Cleda Mae Patterson, 92, of LaCygne, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at Willow Lane Nursing Home, Butler, Missouri. She was born February 26, 1913 on the family farm near LaCygne, Kansas, the only child of Charley and Laura Gooden Miller. Her grandparents had settled on this farm in 1870. She married Virgil Patterson on April 23, 1932 in...
Gordon Read
Jun 25, 2005
Gordon A. Read, 83, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Saturday, June 25, 2005 at St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri. He was born December 22, 1921 in Rice Lake, Wisconson, the son of Robley and Mamie Faurot Read. He served with the United States Army during World War II. On August 25, 1950, he married Golda Brown. She preceded him in...
Sarah Groothouse
Jun 16, 2005
Sarah Bertha Groothouse, 85, of LaCygne, Kansas, died Saturday June 16, 2005 at Miami County Medical Center, Paola, Kansas. She was born June 20, 1920 in Kansas City, Kansas, the daughter of Harry and Ida Reed Harris. She attended school at Morse Central Jr. High School and Argentine High School in Kansas City, Kansas. She married Joseph L. Zweimiller in...
Hazel Johnston
Jun 13, 2005
Hazel Lafern Johnston, 89, of Blue Mound, Kansas, died Monday, June 13, 2005 at Medicalodge Nursing Home, Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born June 13, 1916 in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of Forrest Allen and Edna Myrtle Vance Spencer. She was married to Robert Johnston Jr. on March 6, 1937 and to this union one son and three daughters were...
Doris Schmelzla
Jun 13, 2005
Jean Schmelzla, 72, of Prescott, Kansas, died Monday, June 13, 2005 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born November 23, 1932 in Oregon County, Missouri, the daughter of George and Hazel Strain Giesken.. She married Gerald Schmelzla on May 4, 1957 at Miami, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death on July 29, 1978. She was a homemaker...
Bertha Cook
Jun 12, 2005
Bertha G. Cook, 76, of Butler, MO, formerly of Amsterdam, Mo, passed away Sunday, June 12, 2005 at the Willow Lane Nursing Center, Butler. She was born January 1, 1929 near Adrian, MO, the daughter of Grover and Olive Elliott Abnot. She married Junior Edwin Cook on June 25, 1951 at Amsterdam, MO. He preceded her in death on November...
Eugene Richardson
Jun 7, 2005
Eugene L. Richardson, 93, of Camden, Arkansas, formerly of Mound City, KS died Tuesday, June 7, 2005. He was born August 11, 1911 in Centralia, MO. He was preceded in death by his wife, Eula Richardson; his daughter, Anna Belle; his father and other, Walter and Icie Richardson; his brothers, Aubry, Morris and Earnest Richardson; his sister, Anna Mae Gittings;...
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