Obituaries
Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas
Tabatha Brown
Oct 27, 2019
Tabatha Elaine Brown, age 40, Fort Scott, KS passed away on Sunday, October 27, 2019. She was born on July 29, 1979 in Springfield, Missouri the daughter of Samuel Peak and Bonnie Jones. She was preceded in death by her first husband, James Ayers. Tabatha is survived by her husband, Dustin Brown, son, James Ayers, daughter, Mildred Ayers and...
Perry Cougill
Oct 26, 2019
Perry Lyle Cougill, age 37, Kansas City, Missouri passed away on Saturday, October 26, 2019. He was preceded in death by both of his grandfathers, Lyle Dean Cougill and Perry Norman Cannon. He is survived by his girlfriend Sarah Arum Hwang, mother, Debra Cougill, father, Bob Cougill and wife Stacey, brothers, Christopher Cougill and Lydia and Joshua Cougill and...
Sybil May Chaplin
Oct 26, 2019
Sybil May Fehr Chaplin, age 94, of Fort Scott, Kansas peaceably joined her departed family and friends late Saturday, October 26, 2019. Sybil was born on May 25, 1925 to Dewey Higday Fehr and Ruth June Brittingham Fehr in Pleasanton, Kansas where she grew up. She married George Lee Chaplin on July 18, 1946 in Prescott, Kansas, together they raised...

Theresa Eminger
Oct 21, 2019
Theresa A. Eminger, age 54, Mound City, Kansas passed away on Monday, October 21, 2019. She was born on September 23, 1965 in Eloise, Michigan the daughter of Donald and Joyce Sahringer Eminger. Her parents and one brother, Brian Eminger preceded her in death. She is survived by a very special friend and companion, Christopher McIntosh, and two sisters,...
Enoch Edward Joles
Oct 18, 2019
Enoch Edward Joles, age 76, Mound City, Kansas passed away on Friday, October 18, 2019 at the Olathe Hospice House. He was born in Benton, Arkansas on March 24, 1943 the son of Affie and Annie Reynolds Joles. He was married to LaDonna "Susie" Stanley on December 8, 1993. He was a race horse trainer earlier in his life, but,...
Mary Louise Madl
Oct 16, 2019
Mary Louise Madl, 86, of Mound City, Kansas died on Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at Life Care Center, Osawatomie, KS. Mary was born February 26, 1933 to Cecil and Margaret (Bruce) Boots. She graduated from Mound City High School with the Class of 1951. On July 24, 1954, Mary married William E. Bill Madl at Argentine, Kansas. Mary was...
Dorothy Ann Mangold
Oct 15, 2019
Dorothy Ann Mangold, age 87, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Tuesday October 15, 2019. She was born December 14, 1931 to sheepherder parents, Les and Flossie Coonrod Angle in Faith, South Dakota. She was the youngest of four children. Her siblings, Harve, Betty and Helen have preceded her in death. When she was young, the family relocated to Missouri....
Mary Holmes
Oct 4, 2019
Mary E. Holmes, age 70, formerly of Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Friday, October 4, 2019. Mary was born September 23, 1949, the daughter of Robert Harper and Edna Mullies Judy in Butler, Missouri. Mary attended Hume High School and later took college classes and became a Certified Medical Assistant, she also worked at Hallmark Cards. Family was Mary's passion,...
Angilee Dennis
Sep 26, 2019
Angilee L. Dennis, age 87, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Thursday, September 26, 2019. She was born in Norwood, Missouri on September 29, 1931 the daughter of Elzie and Sylvia Owens Smith. She graduated from high school in Mountain Grove, Missouri. On June 16th, 1951, she married her childhood friend, Leon Dennis. Leon passed away on March 7, 2011;...
John Ballou
Sep 18, 2019
John Gary Ballou, age 72, of Pleasanton, Kansas passed away Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at his home. He was born February 4, 1947 to Robert Oliver Ballou and Wilma Jean Gray Ballou (who passed away a few days after his birth) in Kansas City, Missouri. He was raised by his father and mother, Cecile Hyacinthe Reed Ballou, who adopted him...
James Larch
Sep 16, 2019
James A. "Jim" Larch, 58, Hume, MO passed away on Monday September 16, 2019. He was born in Summersville, West Virginia on September 24, 1960 the son of Alvin and Alice Jones Larch. He graduated from Lincoln West High. He also received his certification in heating and cooling. He drove a truck over the road for some time before he...
Oleta Davidson
Sep 14, 2019
OLDEST CITIZEN OF HUME DIES Oleta Davidson, age 98, resident of Hume, Missouri for over seventy years, passed away on Saturday, September 14, 2019. Oleta, third child of seven, was born to Samuel and Janie Gibson Kilgore on August 7, 1921 in Huntsville, Missouri. She moved to Hume with her parents when she was sixteen and graduated from Hume High...
Dwayne Beckford
Sep 12, 2019
Dwayne Charles Beckford was born July 20, 1949 in Riverside, California to Andrew Beckford and Lucille Hillman Beckford. His father''s military career took the family to many locations before finally settling in Mapleton, Kansas. He graduated from Blue Mound High School in 1967 and Kansas State University in 1972. He married his high school sweetheart, Rita Hyson, in 1970. They...
Johnny Smith
Sep 12, 2019
Johnny Allen Smith age 73 of Williamsburg, Kansas formerly of Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Thursday, September 12, 2019. He was born on March 7, 1946 in Bristow, Oklahoma the son of Olen and Jewel Wood Smith. He graduated from Pleasanton High School in the Class of 1964. He worked for many years at Cosens Lumber and Ready Mix. He...
Ruby Brenneman
Sep 12, 2019
RubyViolet Brenneman, age 81, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Thursday, September 12, 2019 at her home. She was born on June 29, 1938 in La Cygne the daughter of John D. and Violet May Anderson Holman. She graduated from La Cygne Rural High School in the Class of 1956. She married Donald Gene Brenneman on July 10, 1957. He...
Harold West
Sep 9, 2019
Harold Loyd West, 90, of Mound City, Kansas passed away on Monday, September 9, 2019 at The Residencies of Pleasanton. Harold was born in Farlinville, Kansas on October 24, 1928 to Howard L and Beulah M (Holt) West. He went to school at Farlinville County School and then attended one year at Mound City High School. Harold was a rancher,...
Doris Prike
Sep 8, 2019
Doris Ann Prike, 83, of Longmont, Colorado passed away on September 8, 2019. She was born on October 15, 1935 in Turner, Kansas to Clare and Stella Peck. Shortly after graduating from Turner High School, Ann met Bill Prike and they were married on August 7, 1954 in Kansas City, Kansas. Ann and Bill moved to Denver, CO in 1959...
Buddie Staton
Sep 6, 2019
Buddie Hershel Staton, age 88, Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Friday, September 6, 2019 at his home. He was born January 9, 1931 outside Pleasanton the youngest of six children born to Novel "Bud" and Maude G. Bright Staton. He lived the majority of his life in Linn County except for ten months he spent in Detroit, Michigan as a...
Letha Kwasney
Sep 3, 2019
Letha F. Schmitz Kwasney, age 79, of Olathe, Kansas formerly of Mound City, Kansas passed away on Tuesday September 3, 2019. She was born in Farlinville, Kansas on June 19, 1940 the daughter of Oscar and Edna Poole Schmitz. She graduated from Mound City High School in the Class of 1958. Letha then attended Fort Scott Community College and later...
James Meech
Sep 2, 2019
James Walter Meech, age 62 passed away Monday, September 2, 2019 with his wife, kids and close friends near, on his farm home near Fort Scott, KS, after a battle with Gliosarcoma brain cancer. Jim was born April 18, 1957 in Fort Scott, KS, the son of Dennis Walter and Estella E. (Gier) Meech. He married Marita Miller on September...
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