Obituaries
Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas
Charles Phillips
Sep 27, 2016
Charles Phillips, age 77, Mound City, Kansas passed away on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at his home. He was born in Linn County, Kansas on January 6, 1939 the son of Edward and Anna Lee Walrod Phillips. He graduated from Prescott High School. He attended Pittsburg State University, Texas AandI and eventually earned a Bachelor''s Degree in Business and Economics...

Linda Parkison
Sep 20, 2016
Linda Kay Parkison, age 66, Camdenton, Missouri passed away on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at the Prescott Country View. She was born on Septembe 22, 1949 at Hammond, Indiana the daughter of John and Rosemary Nunnery Balka. Prior to retirement she worked in the claims department at Pyramid Life. Linda was talented artist, enjoying painting, crafting and sewing. She also...
Billie Avery
Sep 19, 2016
Billie Joe "Bill" Avery, age 90, Centerville, Kansas passed away on Monday, September 19, 2016 at Vintage Park in Osawatomie, Kansas. He was born on April 30, 1926 at Garnett, Kansas the son of Horace and Winifred Crozier Avery. He attended school in Ottawa, Kansas. He left high school during his Junior year to serve his country in the United...
Richard Post
Sep 19, 2016
Richard "Rick" Alan Post, age 61 Prescott, Kansas passed away Monday, September 19, 2016 at his home. He was born on April 17, 1955 at Fort Scott, Kansas the son of Alvin and Suda Edwards Post. He attended Prescott Schools and graduated from Jayhawk Linn High School. He worked at several occupations the most recent in waste management with Linn...
Ralph Kastl
Sep 2, 2016
Ralph L. Kastl, age 82, Blue Mound, Kansas passed away Friday, September 2, 2016 at his home, doing what he loved, working in his yard. He was born on May 6, 1934 at Xenia, Kansas the son of Gus and Gertrude Flye Kastl. He graduated from Blue Mound High School in the Class of 1952. He married Carlene Horton on...
Lessie Davis
Sep 1, 2016
Lessie J. Davis, age 73, Blue Mound, Kansas passed away on Thursday, September 1, 2016 at the Olathe Hospice House. She was born on August 13, 1943 in Arkansas the daughter of Alfred and Florence Vincent Quarles. She married Bobby Gene Davis on August 3, 1962 at Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She was preceded in death by her parents and two...
Donald Snow
Aug 22, 2016
Donald R. (Don) Snow, 61 of Pleasanton, Kansas died at his home on August 22, 2016 after a lengthy battle with lung disease. He was born March 3, 1955 in Fort Scott, Kansas to Robert L. and Dorothy Springer Snow. He married Karen Wilcox on March 28, 1980 and they were the proud parents to two sons, Joshua and Kane....
Loren Reynolds
Aug 20, 2016
Loren Neal Reynolds was born on August 21, 1936 in Scott Township, Linn County, Kansas to Volney Preston Reynolds and Hilja Sivia Henrikson Reynolds. He joined two sisters, Eleanor Eileen and Vivian Maxine. He passed away in the early morning hours of August 20, 2016-just hours shy of his 80th birthday. As a child, Loren attended Oak Grove School and...
Leo Mcrae
Aug 20, 2016
Leo D. McRae, age 84, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Saturday, August 20, 2016. He was born at Centerville, Kansas on May 14, 1932 the son of Carl and Glenna Driskill McRae. He graduated from La Cygne Rural High School and attended Artificial Insemination School at Kansas State University. He married Margaret Hatch on February 25, 1951 at Drexel,...
Marguerite Sims
Aug 18, 2016
Marguerite Ellen Sims, age 96, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at the Olathe Hospice House. She was born on April 16, 1920 in Stanton Township, Miami County, Kansas the daughter of William and Hazel Ricketts Skeens. She was a homemaker and married George Verlas Sims on November 21, 1939. He preceded her in death on...
Janet Morrisey
Aug 13, 2016
Janet Morrisey, age 61, Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Saturday, August 13, 2016 at her home. She was born on August 21, 1954 at Pleasanton the daughter of Harley Perry and Helen May Kramer Johnson. She attended school in Pleasanton and graduated from Pleasanton High School. She married William "Bill" Morrisey on December 6, 1975. He preceded her in death...
John Allcorn Jr.
Aug 10, 2016
John W. Allcorn, Jr., 73, of Blue Mound, passed away August 10, 2016 at Prescott Country View Nursing Home after a long illness. John was born October 23, 1942 in Osawatomie, Kansas to John William and Norma Ruth (Murray) Allcorn, Sr. After graduating from Osawatomie High School, John served two years in the United States Air Force. On July 14,...

Kay Bledsoe
Aug 5, 2016
Kay Deanne Bledsoe, age 76, formerly of Pleasanton, passed away August 5, 2016 in Hutchinson, Kansas. Kay was born the daughter of Mac and Thelma (Carrol) Hoffman on February 17, 1940 at Pretty Prairie, Kansas. Kay graduated from Pretty Prairie High School. Kay was married to Ray Bledsoe, whom preceded her in death. She loved her family and enjoyed being...
Helen Johnson
Aug 3, 2016
Helen May Johnson, age 87, Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at the Residencies of Pleasanton. She was born on July 17, 1929 in Pueblo, Colorado the daughter of Thomas Benton and Lucy J. Wyland Kramer. Helen spent her early years in Colorado until moving with her family to Pleasanton, Kansas where she graduated from Pleasanton High...
Shirley Mccullough
Jul 30, 2016
Shirley Ann McCullough, age 70, Ft. Scott, Kansas passed away on Saturday, July 30, 2016 at her home. She was born on March 18, 1946 at Marshall, Missouri the daughter of Edgar and Mary Ballenger French. She worked as a psychologist for the State of Missouri. She was preceded in death by her parents and husband Jim. She is survived...
Robert Short
Jul 28, 2016
Robert Henry Short, age 86, Linn Valley, Kansas passed away Thursday, July 28, 2016 at the Olathe Medical Center. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas on March 27, 1930 the son of Harry Howard and Mary Cecelia Callahan Short. He served his country during the Korean War in the United States Air Force. After serving in the Air Force...
Frank Grosshart
Jul 28, 2016
Frank Lester Grosshart entered the world on May 13, 1942 and was taken into the loving arms of the Lord on July 28, 2016. Frank was born to Lloyd and Winnie (Gregg) Grosshart who lived by Boicourt, Kansas. He attended Pleasanton School and graduated in 1960. Frank spent all his life on the family farm and enjoyed life to the...
Kyle Mchorse
Jul 23, 2016
Jacob Kyle "Kyle" McHorse, 30, of Blue Mound, Kansas died on Saturday, July 23, 2016 at his home after a life long battle with seizures. Kyle was born October 24, 1985 in Brownwood, TX to Randall and Kathy (Galloway) McHorse. In spite of his health, Kyle was an outgoing person who never met a stranger. He was an outdoorsman who...
Frankie Willett
Jul 20, 2016
Frankie Fay Willett, née Jackson, passed away on July 20, 2016, in Ft. Scott, KS.She was 88.Ms. Willett was born on August 5, 1927, in Parma, MO, to Hester James William Jackson and Freda Liza Savannah Jackson. She graduated high school in 1944 and in October of that year married Robert G. Willett, of Perkins, MO. She attended Southeast Missouri...
Francis Oshel Sr.
Jul 18, 2016
Francis Boyd "Boyd" Oshel, Sr., 83, of Hidden Valley Lake, died on Monday, July 18, 2016 at Medicalodge, Fort Scott, KS. Boyd was born November 23, 1932 in DeSoto, Kansas to Lester and Elsie (Hall) Oshel, the third of nine children. Boyd was an outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, beef cattle, horses, and participating in rodeos. He owned a...
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