Obituaries
Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas
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;...
Ida Stites
Jun 4, 2005
Cleo Driskill Stites passed away on June 4, 2005 at the Louisburg Care Center in Louisburg, KS. She was born September 21, 1913, the daughter of Marion and Prudie Baston Driskill near Pleasanton, KS. She grew up in the Richland Community near Farlinville and attended grade school at the Potosi Community School. She later attended High School in Mound City....
Hayes Martin
Jun 3, 2005
Hayes L. Martin, 79, of Louisburg, Kansas formerly of Lacygne, Kansas passed away Friday, June 3, 2005 at the Louisburg Care Center. He was born June 24, 1925 in Osawatomie, KS, the son of Hazel Leroy Martin and Gertrude Mary Benton (Martin). He married Ida Elizabeth Sullivan on August 12, 1954 in Paola, Kansas. He worked for the Burlington Northern...
Billy Hewitt
May 30, 2005
Billy Joe Hewitt, age 65, of Chanute, Kansas and formerly of LaCygne, Kansas, died Monday, May 30, 2005 at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. Billy was born on August 6, 1939 in Miami County, Kansas to F. M. Jack and Velma Rogers Hewitt. Billy joined the U.S. Navy in 1957 and obtained the rank of Signalman 1st Class. on...
Wilbur Boyd
May 21, 2005
Wilbur Boyd, 88, of Blue Mound, Kansas, died Saturday, May 21, 2005 at Pine Crest Nursing Home, Humboldt, Kansas. He was born February 21, 1917 in Blue Mound, Kansas, the son of Charles and Alma Orm Boyd. Wilbur was self-employed as a carpenter and painter. He was preceded in death by his parents; seven brothers; his twin brother, Wilmer; Elvin,...
Louis Oliver
May 18, 2005
Louis John "L.J." Oliver, 90, of Mound City, Kansas, died Wednesday, May 18, 2005 in Johnson County, Texas. He was born April 27, 1915 in Johnson County, Texas, the son of John Louis and Frances Prince Oliver. After graduating from the local schools he went to work in the oil fields. He was a veteran of World War II, serving...
Debra Roberson
May 11, 2005
Debra Lynn Roberson, 47, of Wichita, Kansas, died Wednesday, May 11, 2005. She was born September 19, 1957 in Kansas City, Kansas. She is survived by her mother, Donna O'Brien of Pleasanton, Kansas and her father, William Banks; two sons, John Wesley Banks of Wichita, Kansas and Gary Sims of Kansas City, Kansas; one daughter, Latisha Cox of Independence, Missouri;...
Mabel Stites
May 10, 2005
Mabel A. Stites, 92, of Shawnee, Kansas, formerly of Parker, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 at the Shawnee Gardens Nursing Center, Shawnee, Kansas. She is survived by 2 sons, Ray A. Stites and wife, Nelda of Sun City, Arizona; Walter S. Stites and wife, Brenda of Shawnee, Kansas and a daughter, Carol Prentice, Shawnee, Kansas. Services will be...
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