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

Mary Mitts

Jan 21, 2018

Mary Jane Mitts, age 87, Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Sunday, January 21, 2018. She was born at Foster, Missouri on September 30, 1930 the daughter of John and Mary Frances Galvin Vaughn. She was married to Willard Mitts on July 14, 1963. He preceded her in death on February 10, 2012. She worked in the Healthy Start program in...

Neva Baker

Jan 19, 2018

Neva Kathleen Baker, age 100, went to meet her Lord on January 19, 2018 at Wheat State Manor, Whitewater, KS. Kathleen was born on July 9, 1917 in Parker, Kansas to Charles Edgar Ross and Agnes Lynette (McCollam) Ross of Blue Mound, KS. For her first 6 years, Kathleen lived in Parker and started school there. Then the family moved...

Hazel Robbins

Jan 16, 2018

Hazel Louise Robbins, age 72, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at her home in La Cygne. She was born on September 2, 1945 the daughter of Earl Edward and Nellie Mae Bishop Fleming. She graduated from La Cygne Rural High School in the Class of 1964. She married Kenneth Robbins on June 17, 1971at Cypress,...

Sterling Barker

Jan 15, 2018

Sterling Martin Barker, age 64, Kincaid, Kansas passed away on Monday, January 15, 2018 at Prescott Country View. He was born at Iola, Kansas on September 16, 1953 the son of Sterling C. and Bonnie Creason Barker. He graduated from Moran High School in the Class of 1971. He married Coleen Stewart. To this union five children were born. Sterling...

Ralph Myrick

Jan 14, 2018

Ralph L. Myrick, age 90, Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Sunday, January 14, 2018 at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kansas. He was born at Mapleton, Kansas on December 21, 1927 the son of Newton George and Lula May Needham Myrick. He graduated from Blue Mound High School. Ralph was united in marriage to Patricia Ross on June 19, 1954...

Kenneth West

Jan 12, 2018

Kenneth Victor West, age 57, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Friday January 12, 2018. He was born in California on May 7, 1960 the son of Thomas and Betty Knight West. He worked at many different occupations during his working career, including, driving a truck and working in the feed lots. He was preceded in death by his father...

Carol Johnson

Jan 11, 2018

Carol Jean Johnson, age 76, formerly of Olathe and Mound City, Kansas passed away on Thursday January 11, 2018. She was born at Mound City on June 23, 1941, 1the daughter of Ross and Audrey Hixson Huckaby. She graduated from Mound City High School and Fort Scott Community College. She married Richard Johnson in 1959. He preceded her in death...

William Pointer Jr.

Jan 5, 2018

William Corwin Pointer Jr. "Pete", age 71, Mound City, Kansas passed away on Friday, January 5, 2018 at Prescott Country View. He was born at Fort Scott, Kansas on August 6, 1946 the son of William and Josephine McGlathery Pointer. He graduated from Pleasanton High School . On December 25, 1966, he married Ruby Fritts in Mound City, Kansas at...

Irma Hyson

Jan 5, 2018

Irma Grace Hyson, age 99, Blue Mound, Kansas passed away on Friday, January 5, 2018 at Life Care Center in Osawatomie. She was born on November 17, 1918 at Blue Mound the daughter of Charles Lewis and Jesse Edith Sutterby Green. She graduated from Blue Mound High School. On June 20, 1942, she married Edward Paul Hyson at Escondido, California....

Laurel White

Jan 3, 2018

Laurel Marie "Bebo" White, age 97, Prescott, Kansas passed away on Wednesday January 3, 2018 at Prescott Country View. She was born on April 10, 1920 in Linn County, Kansas the daughter of Elias and Leona Bradley Bloomfield. She graduated from Prescott High School and married Earl T. White on June 25, 1938 at the Bourbon County Courthouse. They were...

Mair Stoker

Dec 31, 2017

Mair Elizabeth Eleanor Stoker, age 87, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Sunday, December 31, 2017 at the Health Care Resort of Olathe. She was born on November 6, 1930 at Barry Island South Wales the daughter of Melbourne and Mary Kate Williams Richards. She married Clayton Stoker on September 11, 1954 at Loudwater, England. Mair was a homemaker. She...

James Dale

Dec 30, 2017

Jim E. Dale, age 89, of La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Saturday, December 30, 2017 at Lakeside Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. He was born in Quenemo, Kansas on December 11, 1928 the son of Dewey Dale Sr. and Mary Ann (Dunn) Dale. Jim was an Eagle Scout and graduated from Osawatomie High School. Jim served in the US Army...

Josephine Emert

Dec 28, 2017

Service Information

Friday, January 5th, 2018 1:30pm, Fort Scott National Cemetery

Interment Details

Fort Scott National Cemetery

Robert Cox

Dec 25, 2017

Robert Jeffrey Cox, age 73, Linn Valley, Kansas passed away on December 25, 2017 at the Miami County Medical Center. He was born on January 5, 1944 at Leon, Iowa the son of James and Maxine Bigley Cox. He worked as a meat cutter most of his life. He had a wholesale meat supply business in the Kansas City Metro...

Kathryn Eckland

Dec 24, 2017

Kathryn Eckland, age 71, formerly of Sugar Valley Lakes near Mound City, Kansas passed away on Sunday, December 24, 2017 at Menorah Medical Center. Kathy was born June 16, 1946 in St. Paul Minnesota to Anthony and Hazel Cloutier Cullen. She married Gary Eckland on October 26, 1968 in Watertown, South Dakota. He preceded her in death on May 10,...

Berniece Ross

Dec 21, 2017

Berniece Ross, age 94, of Blue Mound, Kansas passed away on Thursday, December 21, 2017 at Miami County Medical Center. She was born at Mapleton, Kansas on June 28, 1923 the daughter of Ervin A. and Jessie V. Casteel Gillmore. She graduated from Blue Mound High School. She married Verne " Shorty" Ross on October 3, 1941. Together they had...

Robert Ruiz

Dec 20, 2017

Robert, "Bobby" Aguilera Ruiz, age 62, Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at his home in Pleasanton. He was born on January 11, 1955 at Kansas City, Missouri the son of Santo Macias and Josephine Aguilera Ruiz. He worked as a nuclear medical technician at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He married his long time companion...

Clifford Mckee

Dec 12, 2017

Clifford McKee, age 31, Iola, Kansas passed away on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born to Tina McKee on April 3, 1986 at Joplin, Missouri. He was currently employed at Tina''s Place working in several capacities. Cliff was a talented tile layer and artist. He liked to fish and hang out...

Roy Stroup

Dec 12, 2017

Roy A. Stroup, age 94, Fontana, Kansas passed away on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at Aberdeen Village in Olathe, Kansas. He was born on November 23, 1923 at Cadmus, Kansas the son of Cornelius Vaughn and Iva Pearl McMichael Stroup. He graduated from Parker High School. Roy married Vivian Boettcher on May 15, 1948. She preceded him in death on...

Oral Finkenbinder

Dec 5, 2017

Oral Victor "Vic" Finkenbinder, age 70, Spring Hill, Kansas passed away on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at his home holding his wife''s hand. Vic was born December 28, 1946 to Bryce and Virginia Giffin Finkenbinder in Gas, Kansas. He married Vicki Riebe of Girard, Kansas on September 28, 1968. To this union, one son, Vernon, was born. Victor graduated from...